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At an African American Fourth of July celebration at Louisville ’ s camp — one that followed a parade through the city streets, including some fifteen hundred armed black and white soldiers and band — Palmer, arriving in a gilded circus chariot, told an estimated twenty thousand attendees, most of whom he had already been assured believed the general was there to declare them free ( and who he claimed later he set out to inform otherwise ), “ My countrymen, you are free, and while I command in this department the military forces of the United States will defend your right to freedom .” That one of its circuit courts was soon to strike down Congress ’ s act of March 3, 1865, liberating black soldiers ’ dependants — some 72, 045 individuals, or by one USCT officer ’ s estimate, “ wo and one half persons freed, for each Colored Soldier enlisted in the State of Kentucky ” and two-thirds of the state ’ s slaves — only fueled the general ’ s intent to cure the state ’ s white residents of “ Negrophobia in its worst form .” “ Slavery is dead in Kentucky ,” he crowed to his wife in October 1865, “ and my Mission is accomplished .” He was soon met with an indictment by Louisville ’ s grand jury for aiding fugitive slaves and a wave of lawsuits from dispossessed Kentucky slaveholders.
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At that point, other African governments decided to intervene.
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At the same time, many in the growing black professional classes departed from the traditional veneration of Haiti's French cultural heritage and emphasized the nation's African roots, most notably ethnologist Jean Price-Mars and the journal Les Griots, edited by Dr. François Duvalier.
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At the core of the controversy were insistent African demands for greater participation in government and European fears of losing political control.
At and American
At least in Indonesia, Khrushchev found an American proud to be at total war with Communism ''!!
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At home, Eisenhower was more effective in making the case for NATO in Congress than the Truman administration ; by the middle of 1951, American and European support for NATO was substantial enough to give it a genuine military force.
At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.
* 1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.
At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
At this time, a paper written by the American philosopher Edmund Gettier provoked major widespread discussion.
At Columbia, Dewey worked with other educators such as Charles Eliot and Abraham Flexner to help bring progressivism into the mainstream of American education.
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At most they were sautéed in a pan ...." Some Belgians believe that the term " French " was introduced when American soldiers arrived in Belgium during World War I, and consequently tasted Belgian fries.
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