Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsarist times. After the Russo-Turkish war (1877-78), the Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by the victorious Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...
...rigor of Tsar Nicholas I's police and the general air of repression inside Russia disturbed Minister Brown. So did the Tsar's press censorship...
Countess, Clausewitz & Tsar. Hornblower's new job was no less than to persuade Russia, Sweden and Prussia to join the war against Napoleon. The best way to persuade them, Hornblower decided, was to show the neutrals what the Royal Navy could do. French warships were soon frantically scuttling to safety. When they kept to the open sea, Hornblower's seamanship outmaneuvered them, his broadsides raddled them; when they holed up in neutral ports, Hornblower's bomb-ketches lay outside and .lobbed immense mortars onto their decks...
...Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...
...Forester would be different today if Hornblower had not suddenly debarked at the port of Riga and, waving his zoo-guinea gold-hilted sword, led a "flank attack [that] thwarted Bonaparte's schemes to conquer the world." "To Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower and the British Navy!" cried the Tsar, raising a noggin of Admiralty rum. "To the Navy," responded Hornblower, "guardian of the liberties of the world...