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The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did. -- Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov |
Broadsword(152 total words in this text)(2243 Reads)  during the 17th through 19th centuries, the term referred to contemporary European straight double-edged basket-hilted swords. Like the Italian schiavona and the Scots claymore (a troublesome term in itself), Surviving examples of such swords are around 105 cm long (90 cm of which is blade) with a base blade width of 3.5 cm and a weight of about one kilogram. From the late 19th century, however, museum curators began to use the term to refer to the medieval knightly sword, to distiguish them from the comparatively slimmer-bladed rapier, smallsword and ?p?e, and it is in this manner that the term is used most often today. The Chinese Dao is sometimes translated as broadsword, although sabre is the more usual translation. |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
