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As a result, war-related words including those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe said later that at the time he did not know that these words were military codewords. On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid , 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a ...
Pharnaces had defeated Caesar's Legate Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus, and his small Roman and allied army at the Battle of Nicopolis. He then committed atrocities against the Roman prisoners and against any Roman civilians he found in the region. When Pharnaces received word of Caesar's approach, he sent envoys to seek peace, which Caesar refused ...
In his last words, Caesar allegedly exclaimed over the fact that his friend and relative Brutus took part in his murder. A person's last words , their final articulated words stated prior to death or as death approaches, are often recorded because of the decedent's fame, but sometimes because of interest in the statement itself.
The basic concept of the game is the double siege, with Roman lines facing both inwards around Alesia, and outwards against Gallic relieving forces.The exact lines of the fortifications are preprinted on the game board; the Roman player starts by placing all the Roman counters, which may go anywhere outside Alesia, although there are advantages to placing them along the fortification lines.
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Vitriolix is Caesar's spy in Asterix the Legionary. Squareonthehypotenus appears in The Mansions of the Gods. He tries to make a natural park to help Caesar crush the indomitable Gauls. Yet he reappears in Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: the Golden Book however, only to celebrate the party. Admiral Crustacius appears in Asterix and Obelix All at ...
The first Facebook game in PopCap Games's successful lineup of "Blitz" releases based on an original idea and intellectual property, the studio expected Solitaire Blitz to go out like gangbusters.
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