Word: frontierisms
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Capture of Jaca would not only give the Leftists control of two of these lines, tremendous advantage should France make good her repeated threat to open the frontier for volunteers and munitions, but it would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football...
...separate front, that in the province of Asturias on the Bay of Biscay where last week Rightists were crawling over tremendous mountains ever closer to Leftist Gijón, but the five consecutive fronts form a writhing battle line that snakes a full 1,000 mi. from the French frontier near Jaca round Madrid and ends in the Mediterranean Sea between Málaga and Alicante. There are about 500,000 troops on each side to defend this line and the country behind it, and more of the 1,000 mi. is fortified and actually entrenched than these figures would...
Front No. 1. From the French frontier to a few miles north of Huesca, there were until three weeks ago few formal fortifications, no trenches on this, the most scandalously inactive of all Spanish fronts. Last week's offensive has changed all that, but there is still no trench system. Defense is a matter of individual strong points and gun emplacements among the rocky precipitous hills. From ten miles north of Huesca half way down to Teruel, trenches begin in earnest. They have been dug with great enthusiasm, in systems two and three lines deep, but with little science...
...unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...
...President matches the calibre of the first volume. Once Andrew Jackson is launched on the campaign that made him seventh U. S. President, Author James is pleasantly at home with a career which translated into politics "Old Hickory's" roaring virtues as an Indian and British fighter, frontier gallant, gambler, duelist. Apart from its fresh portraiture of Jackson, the book offers a well-lighted view of the background events which provided the dress rehearsal for the Civil...