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Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. -- Sun Tzu |
Alexei Brusilov(175 total words in this text)(2330 Reads)  Promoted to the rank of general in 1906 Brusilov was given command of the Eighth Army on the outbreak of the First World War. Over the next twelve months Brusilov obtained the reputation as Russia's most successful general. In March 1916 Brusilov was given command of the South Western Army Group on the Eastern Front and led the offensive during the summer of 1916. On the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in February 1917, the Provisional Government appointed Brusilov as Russia's new Commander-in-Chief. However, he was dismissed in August 1917 and remained on the sidelines during the Civil War Brusilov joined the Red Army in 1920 and served as military consultant and inspector of cavalry for the next four years. Alexei Brusilov died in 1926. His First World War memoirs, A Soldier's Note-Book, was published in 1930. |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
