Search results for "Admiral (United States)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral. Although Spanish settlers ... governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral. Historical information ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United ... engagement. War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility ...
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  • From 1405 to 1433, Admiral Zheng He led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty ... trade dominance. Since World War II the United Kingdom has withdrawn from ...
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  • competition between developing nation states seeking wealth from the establishment ... I of Castile, who, by marrying, had united the largest kingdoms of Spain ...
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... through such initiatives as the United World Colleges. He may qualify ...
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  • 1898, war broke out between Spain and the United States and a Spanish warship ... volunteered to swear fealty to the United States, if his life was spared ...
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  • Although still requesting the presence of United States troops, South Korea ... #039;s defeat in World War II in 1945, a United Nations arrangement divided ...
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  • 5 times the size of Washington, DC in the United States. ... them took place in 1502, by the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed ...
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  • in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States of America. ... the original Thirteen Colonies forming the United States. It was also a keystone ...
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  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first United ... one of the defining attributes of the United States. The initial expedition ...
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  • third largest navy in the world after the United States Navy and Royal Navy, ... In the sixteenth century, during the Warring States period, feudal ...
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  • Da Conti, and used during the travels of Admiral Zheng He in the early fifteenth ... Spain, the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom all built large ...
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  • In Canada and the United Kingdom, the Seven Years War is used to describe ... While some United States-based historians refer to the conflict as ...
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  • occupation zones of the Soviet Union and United States established at the ... By the third century B.C.E., it disintegrated into many successor states. ...
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  • between France and Great Britain when Admiral Dupetit-Thouars, acting ... 6 percent), Niger (13.2 percent), and the United States (12.4 percent). Imports ...
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  • 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ... ==Society of the United Irishmen== In October 1791, Tone converted ...
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  • War, owing to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom. After visiting London ... of Romania. In 1930, he was sent to the United Kingdom to attend Cheam School ...
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  • Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... Hawaii was united under a single ruler, Kamehameha I, in 1810. The ...
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  • On September 25, 1660 the States of Holland resolved to take charge ... in 1666, when William was 16, the States of Holland officially made ...
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  • a false passport for him to travel to the United States to avoid the Napoleonic ... in the past, that his father had been an admiral in the French navy, when ...
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