Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern history. The story began in the early '30s when years of misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated the Chinese population in the south mountains...
...went softly to seed. A few-a very few-burned themselves out and annoyed their colleagues with pioneering studies in tactics and a rude espousal of modern forms of war. (Two examples: the late Billy Mitchell of the Air Corps; the late Adna Chaffee of the armored force.) Many cavalrymen, sensing the end of their service, went into the embryo tank service...
Some 3,000,000 will in a sense have dinner on a brisk, sandy-haired little man: Lieut. General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It is he who is training the new Army's doughboys, anti-aircraftsmen, field artillerymen, tankers, cavalrymen-all except the airmen and the Services of Supply-for the toughest war any U.S. army ever had to fight...
...Rzhev. Six hundred miles to the north, west of Moscow, the Russians had launched another offense. It began, as the one in Stalingrad began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
MOSCOW--Stalingrad's defenders have hurled back German forces which broke through their lines briefly Sunday to reach an important objective and in the Central Caucasus Cossack cavalrymen have stain 1700 of the enemy in two days' fighting the Russians announced today...