While the sybaritic top brass toss meat to their dogs, or query the freshness of their croissants, ordinary soldiers wolf down the rations in the trenches they storm.
Washington was not strongly defended. It did not have enough soldiers to stop any real attempt by Confederate forces to seize the city. It was extremely important to get more soldiers to Washington as quickly as possible.
In 25 BC, so the writer Strabo tells us, an invading army from the Sudanese kingdom of Meroe, led by the fierce one-eyed queen Candace, captured a series of Roman forts and towns in southern Egypt.
While the French Revolution succeeded in conquering this territory into France, Napoleon came around and expanded France's borders to well be gone to the natural borders of the Pyrenees, the Rhine, and the Alps.
Recently tens of thousands of Iranians turned out to mark the 34th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.That historical legacy still haunts many Americans.
The storming of the Bastille was a pivotal moment in the French Revolution, the violent result of a multitude of social, economic, and political crises.