Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They brought the Allied pursuit to a walk halfway between Rome and Florence, gave the battered Tenth and Fourteenth German Armies time to collect their wits. For the first time since the breakthrough below Rome, the Germans made counter attacks...
...holding a continuous front. Along the last few roads open to the north they scuttled back in the worst rout of a German army on a western front since Tunisia. Allied forces raced up the peninsula after them, making up to 25 miles a day in near-bloodless pursuit. Town after town in Umbria, ancient land of the little-known Etruscans, fell virtually unharmed...
Midway between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic the Germans seemed firmer. Mines, demolitions, difficult country, stubborn rear guards impeded pursuit of the long, weary German columns winding up the rutted mountain roads. But General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army slogged steadily at their heels, captured Avezzano, virtually cleared the lateral highway from Rome to the Adriatic...
...European capital retaken from the Germans. But General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander and his conquering troops were busy with another, further fact: Kesselring's Army, battered, tired and in retreat, could still be destroyed. Alexander's troops surged through and around Rome and pressed the pursuit northward...
Said Alexander's Fifth Army commander, Lieut. General Mark Clark: "One of Kesselring's two armies will never fight again." It was about all he had time to say. He was in charge of the pursuit north from Rome. On his right, British General Sir Oliver Leese pressed forward with his polyglot Eighth. He, too, was trying for the great breakthrough, the disorganization that can be brought even to the best of troops...