Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam
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Jeopary Question, U.S. PRESIDENTS - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: U.S. PRESIDENTS - Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam.
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Hiram Ulysses Grant, Sr. (1822 - 1885) - Genealogy - Geni  Jun 10, 2016 ... Related Projects .... Grant began his lifelong career as a soldier after graduating from the ..... of Grant's and a West Point classmate, and senior commander with Floyd ...... Apprehensive that other cadets would tease him about his initials, ... to call him Ulysses; the other cadets nicknamed him "Uncle Sam" for...
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The Presidential Ham  Ulysses S. Grant with Ham  But in the end he was named Hiram, after his maternal grandfather, and ... West Point with the initials H.U.G. emblazoned on his trunk embarrassed him, so as a new ... the initials U.S.G. Classmates began calling him U.S., or Uncle Sam, Grant.
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Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia  Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (186977). As Commanding ... Grant graduated in 1843 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, served in .... at the academy since the initials "U.S." also stood for "Uncle Sam". .... Playing off his initials, they took to calling him "Unconditional Surrender Grant".
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President Grant [WAS 'today's listening of Abbey Road' ] - Google ...  Dec 2, 1998 ... was at West Point it got changed to Ulysses S. Grant and I don't know > why,but he ... Classmates began calling him U.S., or Uncle Sam, Grant.
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Free Flashcards about AMERICAN HISTORY - StudyStack  AFTER COLLEGE, THIS FUTURE U.S. PRESIDENT TAUGHT DEBATING & PUBLIC SPEAKING AT SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL, LBJ. HE WAS KNOWN AS...
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New York: City of Troy - Home of Uncle Sam (Local Legacies ...  The City of Troy, New York - Home of Uncle Sam Edward Wachter portraying "Uncle ... mark the birthday of the man who was the progenitor of our nation's symbol. ... Wilson and his brother owned and managed a meat packing business in Troy.
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DeWitt Clinton High School - Wikipedia  Ralph Lauren (class of 1957), American fashion designer and business ... Court (class of 1923); James Baldwin (19241987), writer (class of 1942) ... Samuel Bea (1932-2013), New York State Assemblyman and community .... War II, square named for him in Chinatown, NYC (class of 1937)...
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West Point cadets to lead inaugural parade  Jan 13, 2009 ... Future presidents have also marched as cadets in inaugural parades. On March 4, 1913, Cadet Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point Class of 1915) marched for President Woodrow Wilson. In 1953 and 1957, Eisenhower...
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West Point History - Notable Graduates  The United States Military Academy ranks fourth among the nation's colleges and universities in ... His explorations were memorialized. ... Jefferson Davis ... Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy 1852-55; General in Chief, Confederate Armies; president of Washington & Lee University 1865-70. ... Ulysses S. Grant
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First Black From West Point Gains Pardon - The New York Times  Feb 20, 1999 ... Pres Clinton grants pardon to Henry O Flipper, first black West Point graduate, ... When he graduated 50th in a class of 76 in 1877, he became the first black ... Flipper's name is honored at the United States Military Academy,...
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History - West Point Association of Graduates  President Fidel V. Ramos '50. A distinguished soldier who began his military career as an infantry platoon leader in the Philippine Counter-Insurgency campaign...
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December 6, 2008  ... of all psychiatrists' couches stood Sigmund Freud;Freud This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812 Uncle Sam...
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Free Flashcards about HISTORIC NAMES - StudyStack  A FAMOUS EXPRESSION AT THIS MILITARY ACADEMY IS "MUCH OF THE HISTORY WE TEACH WAS MADE BY PEOPLE WE TAUGHT", WEST POINT.
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Ulysses S. Grant: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  Term: : 18th President of the United States (1869  1877) ... Although Ulysses tried to correct the mistake when he arrived at West Point, it was too ... elite, but he was assigned to the infantry after graduating twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine. .... Grant was the first Union commander to truly take the war to the South and put...
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unit 4 vocab Flashcards | Quizlet  known affectionately by his troops as uncle robert, this gentleman was a brilliant ... hated man in the south. he was the most successful union general during the...
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PDF (94.807 KB) - MIT Press Journals  personification for the United States government, was inspired during the ... a brickyard, built houses, ran a distillery, and operated a general store as well as a ... In 1793 the brothers entered the meatpacking business. By 1805 .... Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of America's national symbol of 'Uncle Sam.'9.
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George Armstrong Custer - Wikipedia  George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839  June 25, 1876) was a United States Army ... He was called "Autie" (his early attempt to pronounce his middle name) and .... Custer was quoted as saying that "no father could love his son more than ... One of his greatest attributes during the Civil War was what Custer wrote of...
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Arnold, Henry "Hap" - National Aviation Hall of Fame: National ...  Henry Arnold earned his nickname, Hap, because of his near-constant grin. ... In 1945, while serving as commanding general of the Allied Air Forces, the ... Arnold became the first military aviator to use radio to report observations.
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Inside the Capitol: 8-26 MacArthur  Aug 22, 2005 ... MacArthur was first in his class at West Point, a World War I hero, ... As World War II approached, he was brought out of retirement to ... But on the opening day of the war, with several hours notice that ... the name "Dugout Doug" from many of the troops left on Bataan. ... They called him "The Lion of Luzon.
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Jeopary Questions page 1000 - ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE ...  GENERAL INFORMATION: This general, first in his class at West Point, ran for president in 2004 ... SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Dana Point is named for Richard Henry Dana, best known for this "timely" memoir about sailing to California & back ... SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: The view seen here is from this scenic drive,...