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• Directory:Kabul
  ...issar, a fort destroyed in retaliation for the death of their envoy by the British in 1879, was restored as a military college. Outside the city proper is a c ...flag of truce. The British again took the city in 1879 after a massacre of British officials.
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• Holdfast Gaines
  ...tic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA436396&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf '''U.S. Army Military History Research Collection''']'s "VIGNETTES OF MILITARY HISTORY", ...ative American employed by the [[Directory:United States|United States]] [[Army]] during the [[War of 1812]].
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• December 26
  * 1825, several Imperial Russia army officers lead approximately 3000 soldiers on the Senate Square in the faile * 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress
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• January 24
  ...remony for the Women's super-G at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. Gero Breloer, AP. Related storyFullscreen. None. Vonn races in th * 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, [[Di
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• Brandywine Springs
  ...r Brandywine Springs to defend against a British advance on Philadelphia. British forces under [[Earl Cornwallis]] headed for Washington's position while a s ...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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• February 4
  * 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a war * 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, [[Directory:California|California]]
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• Naval architecture in the Industrial Age
  ...cally shorthanded resources. Kennedy notes that a conscious reluctance of British capitalists to invest in new industrial plant also doomed England to losing ..., though. So, in exchange for agreement to a more hostile approach by the Army in southeast Asia, the Navy was awarded a greater allocation of resources a
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• December 9
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• User:RDH (Ghost In The Machine)
  ...padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: left" | This user is not '''British''', but wishes otherwise. ...low}}};" | This user wishes he had a Private '''<font color="yellow">Clone Army</font>'''
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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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• Directory:Connecticut
  ...River in 1614, and though the Dutch established a trading post, it was the British who fully colonized the area In 1633, Dutch colonists built a fort and trad ...ayed a prominent role in the Revolutionary War, serving as the Continental Army's major supplier. Sometimes called the “Arsenal of the Nation,” the sta
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• Directory:Ohio
  ...bited the region, which was first explored by La Salle in 1669. The French-British rivalry for control of the area led to the last of the French and Indian Wa ...ettlement W of the Appalachian Mts. Then in 1774, with the Quebec Act, the British placed the region between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes within the bou
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...ssett]] on his mother's side. Harrison was the last president to be born a British subject. ..."Mad Anthony" Wayne]], from whom he learned how to successfully command an army on the [[American frontier]]. Harrison participated in Wayne's decisive vic
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...he area became part of [[Directory:Louisiana|Louisiana]]. It passed to the British (1763-1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States ...er. Mississippi was divided into two main parts; the southern section to a British province called West Florida and the remaining portion to the Georgia colon
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...ion Acts. Narragansett Bay became a notorious haven for smugglers, and the British revenue cutter Gaspee was burned (1772) by patriots in protest against the ..., and on May 4, 1776, the province renounced its allegiance to George III. British forces occupied parts of Rhode Island from 1776 to 1779, when they withdrew
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• Directory:Wisconsin
  === British-American Struggles === ...ade from the Canadian border. In the War of 1812 Wisconsin again fell into British hands. It was only with the Treaty of Ghent (see Ghent, Treaty of) that eff
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...Sept. 12, they attacked Baltimore and fired on Fort McHenry. The American army defended the city and drove them out of Maryland. This battle inspired the ...landers fought on both sides, and families were often split. General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia invaded Maryland in 1862 and was repulsed by Union for
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• Yugoslavia and Communism
  ...alitarian Regimes" , the killings were committed by the Yugoslav Paritsian Army in 1945 and 1946. <ref>[http://www.crce.org.uk/lessons/Articles/eu_hearing. * "After the armistice the British repatriated more than 10,000 Slovene collaborators who had attempted to ret
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• The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)
  ...Brigade]] during the [[American Civil War]]; upon taking command of the [[Army of Tennessee]] in July 1864, General [[John Bell Hood]] introduced it as a ...s reached the No. 15 spot in the UK charts in 1955. <ref>{{cite book|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|date=2004|publisher=Guinness World Records|location=Lo
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• Directory:George Washington
  | order2=[[Continental Army|Commander-in-Chief <br /> of the Continental Army]] ...moreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland County]], [[Colony of Virginia]], [[British America]]
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