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 Leonard
Wood commanded the
"Rough Riders" during the
Spanish-American War, and then served as
Military Governor of Cuba. He
subsequently served as Chief of Staff of
the U.S. Army and as Governor General of
the Philippines. |
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 William
Thomas Sampson became
interested in ordnance technology while
at the U.S. Naval Academy. During his
tenure in the Navy he made numerous
improvements to the technology used by
the Navy, and to its training practices.
As Commander of the North Atlantic
Squadron during the Spanish-American War,
he was partially responsible for the
American Navy's decimation of a Spanish
fleet at Santiago, Cuba, on July 3, 1898. |
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 John
Mercer Langston became the
first African-American to be elected to a
public office in the United States when
he was elected Town Clerk of Brownhelm,
Ohio, in 1854. |
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 The
French and Indian War,
1754-1763, was the last and most
important conflict over French and
British possessions in North America. |
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 Ethan
Allen formed the Green
Mountain Boys to help Vermont resist
efforts by New York to nullify land
grants. He then led them in the capture
of Fort Ticonderoga, the first American
victory of the Revolutionary War. |
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 George
Washington: A Chronology of His Life and
Career George Washington lived an
exciting life in exciting times. As a
boy, he explored the wilderness. When he
grew older, he helped the British fight
the French and Indians. Many times he was
nearly killed. As a general, he suffered
hardships with his troops in the cold
winters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
and Morristown, New Jersey. He lost many
battles, but led the American army to
final victory at Yorktown, Virginia.
After he became President, he
successfully solved many problems in
turning the plans of the Constitution
into a working government. |
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 William
Tecumseh Sherman was
actually depicted as insane at one time
during the early years of the Civil War,
but still managed to gain the respect of
his superiors and to emerge as one of the
most well-known Generals of the war. He
is probably best remembered for his
campaign through Georgia that resulted in
the burning of Atlanta (which was
actually an accident) and the capture of
Savannah. |
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 Jeremiah
Simpson acquired the
nickname "Sockless Jerry" while
campaigning for a seat in the U.S. House
of Representatives, where he served from
1891 to 1899. Although he won the seat by
playing the "country bumpkin,"
he proved his intelligence while serving
in that seat. |
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 Georgia
Neese Clark Gray was an
active member of the Democratic Party and
a successful businesswoman when she was
nominated to become the first woman to
serve as Treasurer of the United States,
an office she held from 1949 to 1951. |
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 An
Overview of Jimmy Carter's Administration
In choosing Jimmy
Carter, the American voters gained a
President about whom they knew very
little, and one who prided himself on
being relatively unknown outside his home
state of Georgia. He had never been a
national candidate and had no significant
experience on the national scene or any
close ties to Washington. Given that the
nation was still reeling from the
Watergate fiasco of a few years earlier,
that lack of ties is what undoubtedly got
him elected, albeit by a fairly close
margin. |
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