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President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.
Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.
His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.
Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate victory, the Southerners were unable to follow up their win in any significant fashion, as the City of Kansas was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified for them to assault.
* Wehler, Hans-Ulrich " Bismarck's Imperialism 1862 – 1890 " Past and Present, No. 48, August 1970. pages 119 – 155 online edition
In August 1862, aged 14, Grace played for West Gloucestershire against a Devonshire team.
* August 27 – Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States ( b. 1862 )
* August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer ( b. 1862 )
* August 19 – Georges Darien, French writer ( born 1862 )
* August 17 – Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota Sioux attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
* August 19 – Dakota War of 1862: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
Lady Audley's Secret was partially serialized in Robin Goodfellow magazine July – September 1861, then entirely serialized in Sixpenny Magazine January – December 1862 and once again serialized in London Journal March – August 1863.
Finally, on August 3, 1862, she obtained permission to travel to the front lines, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia.
On August 22, 1862 he was mustered out of the volunteer service but returned to the field as major in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
When Sarah was young her mother sent her to Grandchamp, an Augustine convent school near Versailles In 1860 she began attending The Conservatoire de Musique at Déclemation in Paris and eventually became a student at the Comédie Française where she would have her acting debut ( August 11, 1862 ) in the title role of Racine's Iphigénie to lackluster reviews.
In the Northern Virginia Campaign of August 1862, this stereotype did not hold true.
The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28 – 30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War.
On August 28, 1862, Jackson attacked a Union column just east of Gainesville, at Brawner's Farm, resulting in a stalemate.
President Lincoln signed two Confiscation Acts into law, the first on August 6, 1861, and the second on July 17, 1862, safeguarding fugitive slaves from the Confederacy that came over into Union lines and giving them indirect emancipation if their masters continued insurrection against the United States.
Battles of New Ulm | Siege of New Ulm, August 19, 1862.
" On August 17, 1862 the Dakota War began when a few Santee men murdered a white farmer and most of his family.
It was established on August 17, 1862, and abolished on May 11, 1864 ( the day Stuart was mortally wounded ), with cavalry units being assigned to the headquarters of the Army.
* Ellen Pontifex ( born ca. 1831 ; housemaid of Theobald and Christina ; pregnant by John the coachman & married him 15 August 1851 ; separated ; married bigamously to Ernest late 1850s ; annulled 1862 ).

August and President
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
The Bulletin, in five issues: The Report Of The President in August ; ;
To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August:
Angola-Vietnam relations were established in August 1971, four years before Angola gained its independence, when future President of Angola Agostinho Neto visited Vietnam.
* 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
On August 20, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt established the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve, which formed the heart of the Tongass National Forest that covers most of the region.
The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.
William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.
In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.
On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.
The Executive Order was amended by President John F. Kennedy, per Executive Order 11046 dated 24 August 1962, to expand the authorization to include those serving with friendly forces.
On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.
On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.
Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.
The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.
President Ernesto Samper assumed office in August 1994.
On August 7, 1998, Andrés Pastrana was sworn in as the President of Colombia.
Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.
In August, an official visit to the territory by then French President, General Charles de Gaulle, was also met with demonstrations and rioting.
In August 1939 Leó Szilárd had prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb.
In memorial of this " Hour of birth of democracy ", the 11th August was created as Constitution Day, because the President of the Empire, Friedrich Ebert, signed the constitution on this day.

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