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Command Decision was successful at the box office in 1949 [10] earning $2,901,000 in the US and Canada and $784,000 elsewhere. However, due to its high cost, MGM recorded a loss of $130,000 on the movie. [1] [11] It was named as one of the ten best films of 1948 by The New York Times and by Film Daily. [12]
Over 200 colonists, mostly French men, were killed and more than 300 women, children, and slaves were taken captive. [21] War continued until January 1731, when the French captured a Natchez fort on the west side of the Mississippi River. Between 75 and 250 Natchez warriors escaped and found refuge among the Chickasaw.
Command Decision, a 1948 World War II film starring Clark Gable; Command Decision, a 1948 World War II play starring James Whitmore; Command Decision, a novel by Elizabeth Moon in the Vatta's War series "Command Decision" (Dad's Army episode), a 1968 episode of Dad's Army; Command Decision, a series of miniature wargames by Game Designer's Workshop
On November 29, 1729, the Natchez attacked Fort Rosalie, killing more than 200 people, including the Jesuit priest Paul Du Poisson. They carried off as captives most of the French women and children, and their African slaves. On learning of the event, the Yazoo and Koroa, on December 11, 1729, waylaid and killed Rouel and his black slave.
Command Decision was a 1948 play in three acts written by William Wister Haines, and formed the basis for his best-selling novel of the same title. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and directed by John O'Shaughnessy, it ran for 409 performances from October 1, 1947, to September 18, 1948, at the Fulton Theatre in New York City .
Haines was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1908, one of three sons of Diedrich Jansen Haines and Ella Wister Haines. His father, the grandson of Reuben Haines III, worked as vice president of a surety bond company, Southern Surety Company of Iowa, and his mother was a notable author of mysteries and serialized stories, many of which appeared in The Des Moines Register.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., escalated his ongoing feud with President Biden following a decision not to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama.
Command Decision is a war novel by William Wister Haines, [1] serialized in 1946–47 in four parts in The Atlantic Monthly. [2] It was published in book form in 1947. It was developed from the unproduced play of the same title in order to provide a market for a Broadway production that followed in 1947, then adapted as a film in 1948.