general headquarters

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"Can nobody," asked the Daily Mirror, "dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesman at general headquarters in Cairo?"

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The explosions shook the city and French general headquarters, less than 5,000 yards away.

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But, from general headquarters right down through the 70-odd plants scattered the length & breadth of the land, the whole Allied personnel had one thing in common: Fear.

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Spaniards, upon taking stock of Abd-el-Krim's former general headquarters at Ajdir, became aware that the Riffian war lord had furnished himself with many of the commonplaces of European existence.

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As has already been stated, Nicholas was at the general headquarters of General Alexiev, the commander in chief, when the crisis was precipitated in Petrograd.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)