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• Buffalo Soldiers
  ...lied to the members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army by the Native American tribes they fought, which was formed on September 21 ...by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.
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• March 7
  * 1945: J. Lawton Collins, led the U.S. Army's VII corps across the Rhine to enter [[Directory:Germany|Germany]] at Rema ...ak today, not as a [[Directory:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] man, not as a Union man, but as an American. . . .)", and his words helped shape the five laws
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• Philadelphia Convention
  ...had created the Iroquois Confederacy. It began: "We, the people, to form a union..." ...''gerrymander'') made a noteworthy remark, by which he compared a standing army to an erect penis -- "an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a
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• February 7
  ...iance with the South "in the event a permanent dissolution of the American Union takes place." * 1948, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by General Omar Bradley
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• Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia
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• Directory:Condoleezza Rice
  ...er Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European ...1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Directo
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• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Historical Background
  Vietnam—and regular People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces from the North unified China and the Soviet Union—ultimately defeated the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, which
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• Directory:GlobalSecurity.org
  ...ncy Montgomery <u>Stars and Stripes</u> January 12, 2007 -- “Deployment of Army forces is on a schedule that deploys units for 12 months, with 12 months at ...rge' is too little, too late] By Steve Liewer and Rick Rogers <u>San Diego Union-Tribune</u> January 11, 2007 -- “They had 152,000 American troops (in [[D
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• December 9
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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  ...y," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]], serving in the [[War of 1812]], [[Black Hawk War]], and [[Seminole Wars| ...k" Taylor]] (born [[January 27]], [[1826]]-[[1879]]), [[Confederate States Army]] [[General]]
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• Brandywine Springs
  ...Revolutionary War, in August 1777, [[George Washington]] and his colonial army took positions along Red Clay Creek near Brandywine Springs to defend again ...vious night and needing rest, did not immediately pursue, and Washington's army, having suffered around 1,200 casualties, was able to escape to Germantown.
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• Directory:Benjamin Harrison
  ...and [[Battle of Atlanta|Atlanta]]. Harrison was later transferred to the [[Army of the Cumberland]] and participated in the [[Battle of Nashville|Siege of ...nter which later became the [[Organization of American States|Pan American Union]]. At the end of his administration, Harrison submitted to the Senate a tre
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• Directory:Minnesota
  ...in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Much of the region was explored by U.S. Army Lt. Zebulon M. Pike before the northern strip of Minnesota bordering Canada ...went to war against Minnesota. With many of the men gone to fight for the Union, federal troops had to come help stop the war.
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ..."Mad Anthony" Wayne]], from whom he learned how to successfully command an army on the [[American frontier]]. Harrison participated in Wayne's decisive vic Harrison resigned from the Army in 1798 to become Secretary of the [[Northwest Territory]], and acted as [[
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...nce and over the years Louisiana was at one time or another subject to the Union Jack of Great Britain, the Tricolor of Napoleon, the Lone Star flag of the ...a small part of West Florida, still claimed by Spain, were admitted to the Union as Louisiana, the 18th state. Spain ceded West Florida in 1821. In January
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...ssippi and the Alabama Territory. On Dec. 10, 1817, Mississippi joined the Union and became the 20th state. Its population had almost reached 60,000 people. ...right to vote. On Feb. 23, 1870, Mississippi was allowed to return to the Union. For a time, blacks in the state voted and some held government positions.
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• Directory:Nebraska
  In 1867 the Union Pacific RR was built across the state, and the land boom, already vigorous, * The Union Pacific's Bailey Yards, in North Platte, is the largest rail classification
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• Directory:Burma
  ...form:'' Myanma Naingngandaw <br />''former:'' Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma <br />''note:'' since 1989 the military authorities in Burma ha | bgcolor="#ffffff" | Independence Day, 4 January (1948); Union Day, 12 February (1947)
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...Tennessee, with substantially its present boundaries, was admitted to the Union as a slave state, with its capital at Knoxville. It was the first state to ...n (then U.S. Senator) and William G. Brownlow had strengthened the natural Union loyalties of the people.
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• David W. Tucker
  ...yer until his induction into the army. He was a trombone soloist with the Army band while stationed in Little Rock during the Korean War. ...llege. At the same time, he was the curriculum supervisor for the Sutter Union School District. He adjudicated and was featured conductor at various jazz
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