Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1, 900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4, 400.

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* November 16 – American Civil War – Battle of Campbell's Station: Near Knoxville, Tennessee, Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.

* November 24 – American Civil War – Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* August 9 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army.

* July 20 – American Civil War – Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

** American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy ( the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them ).

Near the site of van der Donck's mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution.

Near Grannis is the Boggs Springs Youth Encampment of the American Baptist Association, a retreat of Missionary Baptist churches.

Near Wickes is the Boggs Springs Youth Encampment of the American Baptist Association, a retreat of Missionary Baptist churches.

* American singer / songwriter Holly Near was born in Ukiah.

Near the city limits of Coachella are three casinos on Indian reservations: Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino, Spotlight 29 Casino, and Augustine Casino, which are owned and operated by Native American tribes — the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians, and Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, respectively.

Near the conclusion of the American Civil War, when Louisiana became part of the Department of Mississippi, St. Joseph served as the chief route across the Mississippi River.

Near this fort in the same year, about three and one-half miles above downtown Rogersville, Colonel Amis erected a fort-like stone house, around which he built a palisade for protection against Native American attacks.

* Near Traverse City are two other tall ships, the Schooner Madeline and the long replica of the sloop Welcome, an 18th century British warship sloop, which was built for the 1976 Bicentennial of the American Revolution.

" Another American observer, Robert Pelletreau, Jr., assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, believes it the other way around, Islamism being the subset of Muslims " with political goals ... within " the " broader fundamentalist revival ".

He is a member of several think-tanks including the Hudson Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy ( WINEP ) Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy ( CSP ), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ( as a resident fellow ), the neoconservative Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ), and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ( JINSA ).

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

The use of these wheat varieties has also had a substantial effect on production in six Latin American countries, six countries in the Near and Middle East, and several others in Africa.

Near Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede ( 1128 ) he overcame the troops under his mother's second husband and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, exiling her forever to a monastery in Galicia.

* Near the end of the An Shi rebellion, Tibetan troops occupy Chang ' an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

Near Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede ( 1128 ) he overcame the troops under his mother's lover and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, making her his prisoner and exiling her forever to a monastery in León.

Near Pontefract Castle he evaded the troops of Warwick's brother Montagu.

* Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165 – 189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East

Near the end of World War II, German troops destroyed all bridges crossing the Lusatian Neisse.

Near the end of the siege, T. E. Lawrence and Aubrey Herbert of British Intelligence unsuccessfully tried to bribe Khalil Pasha to allow the troops to escape.

Near the Erineus river, Demosthenes and Nicias became separated, and Demosthenes was attacked by the Syracusans and forced to surrender his 6, 000 troops.

Near the end of WW-2 in 1944, the German Wehrmacht issued to some of their occupation troops in France and in very limited numbers some captured M1886 rifles, renamed as the Gewehr 301 ( f ).

Near Oakwood, Chauvel's troops were confronted by a crowd of around two hundred mounted sheep shearers.

The Antonine Plague, AD 165 – 180, also known as the Plague of Galen, who described it, was an ancient pandemic, either of smallpox or measles, brought back to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East.

Near the end of the war, the series of new Fallschirmjäger divisions extended to more than 12, with a reduction in quality in the later units, which, however still inflicted moderate losses on the advancing Allied troops.

Also, in violation of the agreement with the Allies, Russian troops still occupied parts of Iran and the Russians were putting pressure on Turkey and Greece in order to gain control of the Dardanelles and a passage to the Near East from the Black Sea.

Near the air station, at Bodin, there is an RNoAF base which houses a battalion of air defense troops operating the current mainstay equipment NASAMS and RBS 70.

Near the start of the Confederate attack the lead elements of the VI and XIX Corps arrived at the fort, reinforcing it with battle-hardened troops.

Near Dumbarton he encamped in an advantageous position in the face of the royal troops ; but his proposal to fight was overruled, and the rebels retreated without any engagement towards Glasgow.

Near the very end, however, Herzegovinian troops under the command of Ali-paša Rizvanbegović and Smail-aga Čengić broke through defenses Gradaščević had set up on his flank and joined the fighting.

On the contrary, in Near v. Minnesota 283 U. S. 697 ( 1931 ), Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes remarked that in wartime, " no one would question but that a government might prevent actual obstruction to its recruiting service or the publication of the sailing dates of transports or the number and location of troops.

Near Nuceria, on the shores of what is now the dried up Lacus Plestinus, the commander of the Roman cavalry, C. Centenius, fought a battle with 4, 000 knights against Carthaginian troops headed by Maharbal.

Near military installations, static guards, forces specially trained to protect such installation, took over from police guards and a party of troops under Major Littleboy, the Assistant Provost-Marshal of Calcutta, did valuable work in the rescue operation for displaced and needy persons.