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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
Quick Response, Central African Republic, May 1996-Aug 1996(58 total words in this text)(4032 Reads)  In response to civil unrest and rebellion by rogue military elements in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, USMC elements of Joint Task Force Assured Response [which was responding in Liberia] successfully provided security to the US Embassy and evacuated 448 people (including between 190 and 208 Americans). The last Marines left Bangui 22 June. |
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1808:
Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.
1864: General Grant bans the trading of prisoners. 1864: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina, in an attempt to recapture ports lost to the Union two years before. 1941: The Yugoslav army, encircled in Bosnia, surrenders to Germany and signs a formal capitulation in Belgrade. 1945: U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut, Germany. 1951: Operation DAUNTLESS continued to advance against weakened communist resistance in the 24th and 25th Infantry Division zones. 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. 1975: Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. |
