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Americans and lost
Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.
They lost the match, 4 – 6, 6 – 7, to Americans Kimberly Po and Donald Johnson.
But President Millard Fillmore, determined to open up trade with Japan, has sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry across the Pacific, and, to the consternation of Lord Abe and the Shogun's other Councillors, the stirrings of trouble begin with the appearance of Manjiro, a fisherman who was lost at sea and rescued by Americans.
Many other cookbooks were written by African Americans during that time, but as they were not widely distributed, most are now lost.
German-American and ethnic Irish nearly lost control of the organization, and feared its goals were going to be lost in the broad-based, democratic egalitarianism promoted by the Americans.
Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.
1, 198 lives are lost, including 128 Americans.
A United States government report in 2006 indicated that Americans lost $ 198. 4 million to Internet fraud in 2006, averaging a loss of $ 5, 100 per incident.
The Russian Navy lost four of its eight cruisers during the battle, three were interned by the Americans, with just one reaching Vladivostok.
Native Americans lost, over the 47 years of the Act's life, about 90 million acres ( 360, 000 km² ) of treaty land, or about two-thirds of the 1887 land base.
The Oakland Raiders lost both their quarterbacks ; Ken Stabler, who signed with the Birmingham Americans and Daryle Lamonica, who penned a contract to play for the Southern California Sun starting in 1975.
Edward Hine departed England for the United States in 1884, where he promoted the idea that Americans were the lost tribe of Manasseh, whereas the English were the lost tribe of Ephraim.
In Latin American Spanish, the opposite change has occurred – having lost vosotros, Latin Americans address all groups as ustedes, even if the group is composed of friends whom they would call tú or vos.
Much of the mythology of the Iroquois ( a confederacy of originally Five, later Six Nations of Native Americans ) has been lost.
One is that Mora was destroyed by Americans in 1848 in the course of the rebellion against the new government and most of the archives were lost.
The pioneers were greatly outnumbered and lost the battle as they went up against a superior force of British-Canadian soldiers and Native Americans.
Downtown Shawnee has lost many buildings of historical value, but still retains a significant number of resources that continue to provide a living reminder of how Main Street functioned for many Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Native Americans who inhabited the Snoqualmie Valley, led by Chief Patkanim, sided with settlers in the wars of the 1850s and, with the Treaty of Point Elliott, lost such title as settlers acknowledged.
In the assault, the Americans lost 9 dead and 25 wounded.
Some Americans of French heritage who have lost the language are currently attempting to revive it.
With the advent of the automobile after 1910, and the radio after 1920, middle class Americans could now listen to or attend cultural events previously available only in urban areas, and the Chautauqua movement lost popularity.
Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outerspace with his crew " The Arkestra " and decides to settle African Americans on this planet.

Americans and forty-four
The first Americans to see active combat in the European theater of World War II were forty-four enlisted men and five officers from the 1st Ranger Battalion.

Americans and men
But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.
It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.
SAAMI's field men have served as consultants and/or have participated in 75 Teen Hunter Club activities which have reached over 40,000 enthusiastic young Americans.
Moderate use is defined by The Dietary Guidelines for Americans as no more than two alcoholic beverages a day for men and no more than one alcoholic beverage a day for women.
Accompanied by a small number of Americans, he again set out, traveling through the countryside to Sorel, before turning to follow the Saint Lawrence River up toward Montreal, recruiting upwards of 200 men.
She wrote of the Americans, " The boy learns to make advances and rely upon the girl to repulse them whenever they are inappropriate to the state of feeling between the pair ", as contrasted to the British, where " the girl is reared to depend upon a slight barrier of chilliness ... which the boys learn to respect, and for the rest to rely upon the men to approach or advance, as warranted by the situation.
The Americans were heavily outnumbered, many men deserted, and Washington was badly beaten.
The same year, both men attracted the attention of Saudi intelligence, who believed they were involved in arms smuggling, and the following year they were eyed as possible collaborators in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa after it emerged that Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali had given the FBI the phone number of Mihdhar's father-in-law ; 967-1-200578, which turned out to be a key communications hub for al-Qaeda militants, and eventually tipped off the Americans about the upcoming Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit.
:" The tragedy of Dokdokwas is deepened by the fact that most scholars now agree that Frémont and Carson, in their blind vindictiveness, probably chose the wrong tribe to lash out against: In all likelihood the band of native Americans that had killed three men were from the neighboring Modoc ...
On November 17, 1909, two Americans were executed by order of Zelaya after the two men confessed to having laid a mine in the San Juan River with the intention of blowing up the Diamante.
Early New England laws banning the sale of alcohol to Native Americans were criticized because it wasnot fit to deprive Indians of any lawfull comfort aloweth to all men by the use of wine .” Laws banned the practice of individuals toasting each other, with the explanation that it led to wasting God's gift of beer and wine, as well as being carnal.
After the work had been done and the land cleared all the Settlers, men and women, disembarked and marched towards the thick forest and to the cotton tree, and their preachers ( all African Americans ) began singing:
* March 8 In Ohio, the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women, and 34 children are killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
* February 20 – The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.
In an unnamed Southern town, a group of white men learn that all African Americans are planning to emigrate to Mars.
In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States ( though not to recent immigrants from Europe ; thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, " The enterprising people are mostly strangers ; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called ").
During this time, Baum's men constructed a small redoubt at the crest of the hill and hoped that the weather would prevent the Americans from attacking before reinforcements arrived.
As part of the terms of this treaty, a coalition of Native Americans and Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, turned over to the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio, and various other parcels of land including centered at the mouth of the Chicago River.
As part of the terms of this treaty, a coalition of Native Americans and Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, turned over to the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio, and various other parcels of land including six square miles centered at the mouth of the Chicago River.
Following the providential arrival of two U. S. armored platoons of tanks and M10 Wolverine tank destroyers, supported by those 2nd Battalion men who had held tight, and two companies of 146th Engineers operating as infantry, the Americans held on and the fighting for Schmidt continued until 10 November.
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, and the kind that enables men and nations to grow, and to hope, and build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace in all time.

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