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What was worse, the Union Commander did not do what Johnston, with perfect strategic soundness, thought he was going to do. Johnston "was put in the unhappy attitude of fleeing when no man pursued." Many stores were unnecessarily lost. Two months later, on the Peninsula between the York and James Rivers, Johnston retreated again for good strategic reasons but, it seemed, precipitately. Bitterly he wrote of one unassailed though indefensible Confederate position: "No one but McClellan could have hesitated to attack...
...Dependable General, or if possible several of them, would enable Lee to carry out his careful and tactful plans. One man who had everyone's confidence was James ("Old Pete") Longstreet. In the retreat on the James peninsula, Longstreet had capably fought a rear-guard action for Johnston, complacently reporting: "My part in the battle was comparatively simple and easy, that of placing the troops in proper positions at proper times." It was a rare achievement...
Self-Made Russian. Shelekhov planted his settlement on Kodiak Island-in the lee of the peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...
...protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches to the Panama Canal...
Syria, Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula are the Mediterranean roadways to the bridge. Jumbo Wilson helped to take Syria from the Vichyfrench. The British Ninth Army under General Alexander now holds the Mediterranean fringe from Egypt to Turkey. If & when Field Marshal Rommel masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...