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* 1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.
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President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865
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* 1868 – Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder, author, and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications ( d. 1955 )
During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.
The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.
August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.
* Charles Aubrey Eaton ( 1868 – 1953 ), clergyman and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the from 1925 – 1933, and the from 1933-1953.
* 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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1868 and Abyssinian
* General Sir Robert Napier, who commanded the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868 and captured the fortress of Magdàla, was created Baron Napier of Magdala in 1868.
Markham also served as geographer to Sir Robert Napier's Abyssinian expeditionary force, and was present in 1868 at the fall of Magdala.
When the two sides met at Arogye, in the plain facing Magdala, on April 10, 1868, the British defeated the Abyssinian army.
Having been promoted to second captain on 12 November 1860 and to brevet major on 13 November 1860, he transferred to the British Army in 1861 and served in the Umbeyla and Abyssinian campaigns of 1863 and 1867 – 1868 respectively.
He entered the Royal Navy in 1857, served in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868, and was employed for a considerable time in the suppression of the East African slave trade.
In 1861 he became captain, and in the Abyssinian expedition of 1867 – 1868 was a brigade major, being again mentioned in despatches and given a brevet majority.
* Henry Langtry ( 1841 – 1892 ) was an Anglo-Irish war hero who served as a Colonel with the 3rd Dragoon Guards in the Abyssinian campaign in 1868, and was present at the storming and capture of Magdala ( Medal ), Langtry served with the 15th Hussars in the Candahar Column in the Afghan war of 1878.
1868 and War
The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.
The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; nevertheless, his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.
Following the 1868 – 1878 rebellion of the Ten Years ' War, all slavery was abolished by 1884, making Cuba the second-to-last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, with Brazil being the last.
This began the Ten Years ' War, which lasted from 1868 to 1878, and eventually contributed to the abolition of slavery.
Māori warriors fighting the New Zealand government in Titokowaru's War in New Zealand's North Island in 1868 – 69 revived ancient rites of cannibalism as part of the radical Hauhau movement of the Pai Marire religion.
Cuba rebelled against Spain in the Ten Years ' War beginning in 1868, resulting in the abolition of slavery in Spain's colonies in the New World.
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The first began in earnest in 1868 and extended through to World War II ; the second began in 1945 and continued into the mid-1980s.
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* Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba ' independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years ' War in 1868.
At the same time, Johnson also suspected Grant to be a potential rival candidate in the 1868 presidential election, and decided to replace Secretary of War Stanton with Grant or Gen. Sherman.
On January 14, 1868, Johnson launched a media campaign in an attempt to discredit Grant over giving the War Department to Stanton, stating Grant had been deceptive in the matter.
In 1868, in an effort to drum up support for Tubman's claim for a Civil War military pension, a former abolitionist named Salley Holley wrote an article claiming US $ 40, 000 " was not too great a reward for Maryland slaveholders to offer for her.
The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place after the Civil War, during the period referred to as Reconstruction.
Around 1868, Sherman began to write a " private " recollection for his children about his life before the Civil War, identified now as his unpublished " Autobiography, 1828 – 1861 ".
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (,, German: Nikolaus von Horthy und Nagybánya ; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957 ) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944.
Red Cloud's War ( 1866 – 1868 ) was a challenge by the Lakota Sioux to the United States military presence on the Bozeman Trail, a route along the eastern edge of the Big Horn Mountains to the Montana gold fields.
Red Cloud's War ( also referred to as the Bozeman War ) was an armed conflict between the Lakota and the United States in the Wyoming Territory and the Montana Territory from 1866 to 1868.
Shortly after the Boshin War in 1868, a group of Tokugawa loyalists led by Enomoto Takeaki temporarily occupied the island ( the polity is commonly but mistakenly known as the Republic of Ezo ), but the rebellion was crushed in May 1869.
Escambia County was established after the American Civil War, on December 10, 1868 during the Reconstruction era.
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