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• Directory:U.S. Department of Defense/Week In Photos September 30, 2007
  ...lion, 64th Armored Regiment, attaches chains to a barrier to be moved into position at a state operated gas station in Mansur, Iraq, Oct. 1, 2007. The barriers U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill
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• David W. Tucker
  ...1966, at the request of the Sacramento school district, Tucker assumed the position of Director of Bands at Sacramento City College. While in Sacramento, Tuck ...of the 1971 season, Tucker left the Cal Band to accept the newly-created position of Director of UC Jazz under Cal’s musical activities department.
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• Brandywine Springs
  ...delphia. British forces under [[Earl Cornwallis]] headed for Washington's position while a separate force under Sir [[William Howe]] flanked the colonials to ...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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• Wikipedia article on Sarah Stierch
  Selected for a position as a Wikimedia Foundation fellow in 2012,[5] Stierch took a leading role in 2^ Walker, Tim (2012-08-16). "What has Wikipedia's army of volunteer editors got against Kate Middleton's wedding gown?". Independe
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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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• 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 ...tion|gold record]]. The song achieved the #2 position in the UK and the #1 position in Australia.
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• Directory:Connecticut
  ...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 ...nnecticut was "The Provision State" because of supplies contributed to his army by Gov. Jonathan Trumbull - the only Colonial governor, incidentally, to su
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• Directory:George Washington
  | order2=[[Continental Army|Commander-in-Chief <br /> of the Continental Army]] ...ding General of the United States Army|Senior Officer of the United States Army]]</small>
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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  |rank=[[General of the Army (United States)|General of the Army]] |branch=United States Army
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• Directory:James Monroe
  ...aduating from William and Mary in 1776, Monroe fought in the [[Continental Army]], serving with distinction at the [[Battle of Trenton]], where he was shot ...e was again commissioned as the permanent Secretary of State, and left his position as Secretary of War. Thus from October 1, 1814 to February 28, 1815, Monroe
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• Directory:Scoop Jackson
  Jackson joined the Army when World War II started, but left when Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all ...irs, which became the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in 1977, a position he held until 1981.
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  After graduating college, Pierce entered politics and rose to a central position in the Democratic party of New Hampshire and became a member of the Concord ...nated the 1st Brigade in the newly created 3rd Division and joined Scott's army in time for the [[Battle of Contreras]]. During the battle he was seriously
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• Directory:Akahele/The more things change...
  ...did. Around the same time, MP3.com launched a promotion called "New Music Army" which allowed people to make money by promoting other artists. The people ...and shakers who were changing the face of the music industry. They had an army of non-salaried worker bees who drove endless streams of traffic and conten
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  |branch= [[United States Army]] |rank= [[General]] of the Army of the United States[[Image:Us army general insignia 1866.png|80px]]
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• Worst of Wikipedia/History of western Eurasia
  ...ar]] ([[88_BCE|88 BCE]]-[[84_BCE|84 BCE]]) he overran Anatolia and sent an army to invade Greece which was defeated by [[Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla|Sulla]] in ...ius_I|Theodosius I]] the new Eastern Emperor gradually recovered the Roman position and he successfully defeated rival emperors in the East. After his death a
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• Directory:Korcula History
  ...annica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011.</ref> Other followers of his position claim that they were not exiles of Ilius, but fugitives of Gnido. In turn t ...nne Partecipazio, being informed of these schemes, at the head of a strong army descended upon Korčula, which despite powerful resistance, saw many of his
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• Directory:Pakistan
  ...handed over responsibility for governing to the commander in chief of the army, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, who became President and Chief Martial L ...gh Pakistan did not formally join the Non-Aligned Movement until 1979, the position of the Bhutto government coincided largely with that of the non-aligned nat
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• Directory:South Africa
  ...ions, was elected ANC party leader in December 2007, placing him in a good position to become the next president.<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/afri
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...hat of chief clerk of the Senate of Tennessee (1821–1823). He resigned the position in order to run his successful campaign for the state legislature in 1822, ...played an important role in his victory, as opponent Henry Clay hedged his position.
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...s, 58-60</ref> that one of the soldiers, Captain [[Thomas Preston (British army officer)|Thomas Preston]] gave Adams a symbolic "single [[Guinea (British c ...e Washington]] of Virginia as commander-in-chief of the [[Continental Army|army]] then assembled around Boston. His influence in Congress was great, and al
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