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...decided almost overnight to move against Cornwallis instead. The French war vessels moved to Virginia, too, and after five weeks of fast marching, Washington laid siege to Yorktown with 16,000 French and Continental soldiers. Cornwallis had gone to earth between the York and James Rivers, on a narrow peninsula, which was a normal move in time of trouble for a British commander confident of sea power. But De Grasse's French fleet controlled the Chesapeake. Cut off, hammered night & day by artillery, Cornwallis, a fine soldier, could find...
...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
...California's Monterey Peninsula, the meadows of golden poppies and blue lupine beckoned. It was Easter Sunday, and in the spirit of the day Jerry Edgmon, n, and his kid brother David, 9, left the tent where they lived with their migrant family, and started to pick some flowers for their mother. With their mongrel dog, Rocky, frisking beside them, the boys wandered across some dunes and crossed under a sagging, rusted barbed-wire fence...
...thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps...
...were purely military: "With our largely unopposed air forces, with their atomic potential, capable of destroying at will bases of attack and lines of supply north as well as south of the Yalu River, no Chinese military commander would dare hazard the commitment of large forces upon the Korean peninsula...