This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48 states
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Pancho Villa Expedition - Wikipedia  The Pancho Villa Expeditionnow known officially in the United States as the Mexican ... The expedition was launched in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of ... main body of Villa's command, responsible for the raid on Columbus, U.S. forces ..... of Julio Crdenas, an important leader in the Villista military organization.
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J! Archive - List Final Jeopardy! clues - Season 17  #3864, aired 2001-05-24, STATE MOTTOES: General John Stark coined this ... This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48...
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American Revolution facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  They also transformed the British state into the most powerful fiscalmilitary agency in .... taken control of the province's arms, and organized selfdefense forces. .... The army Congress had sent to invade Canada in June 1775 collapsed in the .... 2,600man garrison obliterated the Continental presence in the Lower South.
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British Army during the American War of Independence - Wikipedia  The British Army during the American War of Independence served for eight years in campaigns fought around the globe. Defeat at the Siege of Yorktown to a combined Franco-US force ultimately .... The final effective British commander in chief in America was Sir Guy Carleton, who had defended Quebec in 1775, but had...
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American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia  The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of ... Congress supervised the war, giving Washington command of the new ... In 1778, having failed in the northern states, the British shifted strategy toward the south, ..... On September 15, Howe landed about 12,000 men on lower Manhattan,...
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Peninsula Campaign - Wikipedia  The Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The operation, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was an amphibious turning movement against ... As McClellan's army reached the outskirts of Richmond, a minor battle...
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lewis armistead | Padre Steve's World...Musings of a Progressive ...  Jan 28, 2015 ... Today is a look at the leaders of Lieutenant General Richard S. .... [9] He was commissioned in the new Confederate Army as a ... and Lee referred to him affectionately as my bad old man. ..... He continued to command the 13th Virginia in Ewell's division, earning praise from Jubal Early who called him a...
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THE BRITISH INVASION FROM THE NORTH  In 1781 he was commissioned by the State of New York a brigadier-general. ..... was organized, he was one of the foremost to take part in it, and in the assault on Quebec ... He was immediately after his liberation promoted to a majority, and ... they fired a parting volley, killing his horse and wounding him severely in the leg.
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David Farragut - Wikipedia  April 1862, took command of occupied New Orleans. July 16, 1862, promoted to rear admiral. June 23, 1862, wounded near Vicksburg, Mississippi. May 1863...
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Direct Essays - Sherman Georgia  Sherman and his 105,000 Union soldiers marched through Georgia and into the Carolinas ... Sherman then spread his army out to a fifty- mile wide diameter and headed ... After the capture of Atlanta General Sherman stated, "I can make this march, and .... In late 1864 he spread out his men 50 miles wide and attacked the...
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The Battle of Fort Sumter Summary & Facts ... - Civil War Trust  When South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, United States Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers were positioned at Fort...
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John J. Pershing - Military Leader, General - Biography.com  Leading the AEF in Europe. In 1917, as America entered World War I, General John J. Pershing was appointed commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) to assist the Allied powers against German forces. At the time, the U.S. Army was composed of 130,000 men and no reserves.
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Fort Blakeley - Last battle of the Civil War  When the Union campaign finally started in August 1864, Mobile, Alabama was one .... As the fleet entered the danger zone where they were closest to Fort Morgan, the .... A Confederate army 14,000 strong commanded by General Jubal Early came ... Early resumed his march on July 11 and engaged Union troops at Fort...
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Free Flashcards about WORLD HISTORY - StudyStack  THIS AMERICAN GATHERED HIS FORCES TO LIBERATE EUROPE IN WWII; HIS "PLAN" THEN SUPPLIED IT WITH $13 BILLION, GEORGE MARSHALL.
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Robert E. Lee's Decision to Invade the North in September 1862  General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia entered the final ... Major General George B. McClellan, driving the Union's Army of the Potomac ... on his success by taking the war across the Potomac River into the United States. ... not with the intention of capturing and holding territory but with an eye toward...
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Robert E. Lee | HistoryNet  Facts & information about Robert E. Lee, a confederate Civil War General during the American Civil War ... Breveted three times for gallantry in Mexico, Lee crossed the nearly ... In the final battle, Malvern Hill, Lee threw his men in a series of costly .... When he led Confederate forces into Maryland in September 1862, in the...
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Matthew B. Ridgway Dies at 98 - Leader of U.S. Troops in 2 Wars ...  Jul 27, 1993 ... Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who became Army Chief of Staff after leading American ... General Ridgway also planned and executed the Army's first major airborne assault, ... In June 1952 he replaced General of the Army Dwight D. .... overall allied commander in the Far East, and President Harry S. Truman.
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A 1913 pre-hostility meeting of (Left to right) Generals Obregn ...  The only known photograph of Billy the Kid, who was killed at 21. .... George Smith Patton, IV (December 24, 1923  June 27, 2004) was a Major General in the United ... Pershing had crossed the Mexican border and was chasing Pancho Villa. .... Pancho Villa's last words: Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Fort Blakeley - Last battle of the Civil War  The last major ground battle of the Civil War was at Fort Blakely, Alabama. ... This was done as an after-action item following the naval battle of August 5, 1864. ... The Confederacy deployed thousands of these, with the Mobile Bay area being ... His plan was simple - barrel right by Fort Morgan at full speed with guns blazing,...
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6th infantry going into action under heavy firing from the Spanish ...  Subject Headings: - Spanish-American War, 1898: - Campaigns & battles ... Notes: - Illustration for McClure's magazine; not published. ... Glackens, William J. .... Major General Nelson Miles, commander of American ground forces sent to Puerto ... which engaged Spanish forces in the western section of the island prior to .
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Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897-1971) | New Georgia Encyclopedia  He helped to secure or maintain fifteen military installations; more than twenty-five ... Richard B. Russell Jr. was sworn in as the youngest governor of Georgia by...