Word: prussia
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...spectacular marches. During the siege of Gergovia, Caesar's men marched 50 miles in one day, fought a battle, marched back next day; but that one was an overnight stunt. Napoleon's crack Imperial Guard marched 33 miles a day for 13 days in the campaign against Prussia, 1806. World's record for sustained marching belongs to Alexander, who after the Battle of Arbela, 331 B.C., pushed his infantry 36½ miles a day for eleven days...
...Comedian Mischa Auer, Russian names have always been tongue-twisters; to Mischa and his fans they have been side-splitters. The Battle of Russia is the most unpronounceable campaign of World War II. Communiques are peppered with place names in not only Russia but Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, East Prussia, Poland, Rumania. The most important, together with rough approximations in English phonetics of their pronunciations...
From East Prussia strong German forces drove north into Lithuania. The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) afforded a particularly tempting target. Russia seized them in June 1940-as the Germans did after the Red revolt in 1917. The people remain disaffected, and Adolf Hitler made the most of their feelings...
...developed. Remembering how they beat Napoleon-and perhaps Chiang Kai-shek's defense of China-the Russians have the option of using the size of their country as a weapon to wear down the enemy. On the first day mass flights of Russian bombers attacked East Prussia. But Red withdrawal would eventually be necessary, because the position held by the Russians was dangerous; in the initial phases geography was on the side of the Germans...
...nigsberg, East Prussia, a Latvian "Government in Exile" declared its independence of Russia...