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  • commander and colonial governor. In the United States, he is best remembered ... interfering in the affairs of the princely states. Born wealthy, Cornwallis ...
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  • on India's southcoast in 1620. Admiral Ove Gjedde led the expedition ... Indies and were eventually sold to the United States in 1917 for $25 million ...
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  • 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... the Planter, Smalls requested to raise the United States flag immediately. ...
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  • For subsequent operations, Admiral Ernest J. King and other members ... Shō-Go 1 called for Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's fleet, known ...
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  • of people in two nations, although in the United States and in France women ... of the Battle of the Saintes, in which Admiral George Rodney defeated the ...
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  • Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28 1596) was ... coast when those colonies became free states. Maps made soon after would ...
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  • Allied leaders (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom ... of this support and when the United States joined the war in ...
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  • fell to the U.S. commanders: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General ... and logistics, and should train in the United States for six months before ...
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  • in 1945, for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred ... Hull served 11 terms in the United States House of Representatives ...
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  • The Sui Dynasty united China in 589 C.E., defeating the Chen Dynasty ... by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), and Admiral Zhou Luohou (周羅睺) ...
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  • world into what are often arbitrary nation states means that resources are ... Under the direction of Rear Admiral Juan Williams, the Chilean Navy ...
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  • the first battle in which an army of the United States ever engaged. ... for over seven weeks on Staten Island, Admiral Richard Howe moved 88 frigates ...
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  • The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, which came to be known ... outside countries. As Europe and the United States began to travel to ...
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  • of partitioned Poland). He moved to the United States with his parents in ... with his own. He returned to the United States in 1882, and, through ...
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  • Norway, Republic of South Africa, Russia, United Kingdom of Great Britain ... US Admiral Richard Byrd, with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt ...
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  • southern Solomons was conceived by U.S. Admiral Ernest King, Commander in ... Allied expeditionary force was U.S. Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, whose ...
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  • That has led to a rethinking of United States support in Korea, ... elections in the north, as mandated by the United Nations, South Korea established ...
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  • pirates and corsaires, including English admiral and privateer Sir Francis ... In March 1741, British and American colonial troops led by Admiral ...
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  • of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator ... he became a teacher. In 1853, when the United States Navy fleet led by ...
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  • mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively ... to display its naval power to the maritime states of South and Southeast Asia ...
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