In mid-September 1918, the influenza-pneumonia pandemic swept through every American military camp ; ;

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.

By maintaining the nuclear deterrent, but gearing American military forces to fight conventional wars too, Secretary of State Rusk junks bluff and nuclear brinkmanship and builds more muscle and greater safety into our military position.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.

Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting actions in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War.

Category: Confederate States military personnel killed in the American Civil War

The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided that until the Congress shall provide for the Government of the islands of American Samoa all civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or persons and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct.

Category: American military personnel of the Mexican – American War

This continued with the influx of American military personnel in World War II as well as film ; seen in the enduring persistence of okay, you guys and gee.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

An American officer in the Egyptian army took charge of his military training.

* 1931 – Daniel Ellsberg, American military analyst

This was based on lack of intelligence information and reflected the American nuclear warfare theory and military doctrines.

4655 into law on October 31, 1998, which instituted a policy of " regime change " against Iraq, though it explicitly stated it did not provide for direct intervention on the part of American military forces.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians.

There she walked to the far left and leaned on a vacant section of banister, while the vendor picked himself another well-dressed American lady, carrying a camera and a handsome alligator bag, ascending the steps alone.

Instead, he left home and became a traveling salesman in the American South, peddling books and merchandise.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

Canada's Conservatives had their roots in the Loyalists-Tories-who left America after the American Revolution.

Young left St. Louis and joined the American League's Boston Americans for a $ 3, 500 contract ($ today ).

Starting in the early 1960s due to blockbusting, many white residents, as in most American cities, left the city for the suburbs.

Superimposed on this is an American bald eagle with wings outspread facing left grasping three crossed arrows in its talons and on its breast is a shield of the United States.

On 3 July, American troops left the city and the city became part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and East Germany.

In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American culture chronicle Vanity Fair.

The other important American competitor was the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which used a new camera designed by Dickson after he left the Edison company.

They left American branch of the Gaumont company in 1912 to set up their own independent company.

Fries cut thickly with the skin left on are called potato wedges, and fries without the potato skin are called " steak fries ", essentially the American equivalent of the British " chip ".

Because of patent lawsuits in 1893, Blair left his American company and established another in Britain.

Lang found it harder to find congenial production conditions in Hollywood and his advancing age left him less inclined to grapple with American backers.

In the context of American slavery, this ancient sense of " down " converged with the concept of " down the river " ( the Mississippi ), where slaves ' conditions were notoriously worse, a situation which left the idiom " sell down the river " in present-day English.

Guyana & Suriname are the only 2 countries on the ( in-land ) American continent who still drive on the left.

Aristide and his wife left Haiti on an American airplane, escorted by American diplomats and military personnel, and were flown directly to Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, where he stayed for the following two weeks, before seeking asylum in a less remote location.

House of Pain is an American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career again.

Seven of the American League's 1937 All-Star players, from left to right Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg.

Hasia Diner has accused Peter Novick and Finkelstein of being " harsh critics of American Jewry from the left ," and challenges the notion reflected in their books that American Jews did not begin to commemorate the Holocaust until post 1967.