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Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs -- Ambrose Bierce |
Operation Tiger Clean Sweep (07 September 2003)(70 total words in this text)(2426 Reads)  Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment launched Operation Tiger Clean along the western border of Iraq and in the city of Al Qa'im. The operation was aimed at stopping foreign fighters from entering Iraq and to clear the city of enemy personnel. Soldiers cordorned and search an entire section of the city and captured 14 individuals suspected of participating in anti-coalition attacks. |
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Union troops occupy Grafton, Virginia.
1862: At the Battle of Fair Oaks, Union General George B. McClellan defeats Confederates outside of Richmond. 1862: The Confederates abandon the city of Corinth. 1864: Confederates attack at Bethesda Church, Virginia. 1900: U.S. troops arrive in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. 1902: The Boer War ends with the Treaty of Vereeniging. 1915: A German zeppelin makes an air raid on London. 1916: British and German fleets fight in the Battle of Jutland. 1941: The last of the Allies evacuate after 11 days of battling a successful German parachute invasion of the island of Crete. 1941: An armistice is arranged between the British and the Iraqis. |
