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On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.
Lincoln painstakingly monitored the telegraphic reports coming in to the War Department in Washington, D. C.
During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals | Court of Appeals in Washington, D. C.
Embassy of Angola in Washington, D. C.
* Atlas District, an arts and entertainment district in the Near Northeast neighborhood of Washington, D. C., USA
Category: People from Washington, D. C.
The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.
* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.
* 1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D. C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )
Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.
Doubleday assumed administrative duties in the defenses of Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of courts martial, which gave him legal experience that he used after the war.
* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* Emancipation Day ( Washington, D. C .)
In 1862, Louisa moved to Washington, D. C. to volunteer as a nurse.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C.
* 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
Damage occurs to monuments in Washington D. C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $ 200 Million-$ 300 Million.
* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.
Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )
* 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D. C.
They deliberately crashed it into the Pentagon near Washington, D. C., killing all 59 people on board plus the hijackers, as well as 125 people in the building.
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Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of `` all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity ''.
Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.
`` We have now a national character to establish '', Washington wrote in 1783.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.
In the 1930's, cures for the depression literally flooded Washington.
and George Washington Harris, whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
from the home of his friend, Henrik Kauffmann, in Washington, D.C., Paul Bang-Jensen sent a telegram dated December 9, 1957, to Ernest Gross.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
So far as `` sacredness '' inheres in any aspect of creation it seems to me to be found in human personality, whether in Lambarene, Africa, or in Washington, D.C..
From New Jersey, Morgan hastened to the headquarters of Washington at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, arriving there on November 18th.
In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.
Nathanael Greene told Washington that `` Lafayette was charmed with the spirited behavior of the militia and riflemen ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
Morgan hotly denied this and informed the Board of War that the men in camp linked the name of Peters with the plot against Washington.
In order to see that this hindering situation remained effective, Washington detached several bodies of his troops to the periphery of the Philadelphia area.

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