The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

In a matter of months the War Department built thirty-two camps, each one accommodating fifty thousand men -- sixteen were under canvas in the South and sixteen with frame structures in the North.

During the brief Mexican venture Fosdick's report to the Secretary recommended a definite stand by the War Department against the saloon and the excesses of prostitution.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

Lincoln painstakingly monitored the telegraphic reports coming in to the War Department in Washington, D. C.

In January 1862, after many complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department, Lincoln replaced Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton as War Secretary.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

It was accepted by the War Department on May 6, 1861, effective May 3.

* 1789 – The United States Department of War is established.

* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

This authorization was announced in War Department Bulletin No. 3, dated 10 February 1944.

The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The World War II-era Department of Agriculture film Hemp for Victory, encouraging the growing of hemp for war uses, has achieved a similar cult status.

* Criminal Investigation Department ( Ireland ), a police unit during the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 )

Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933 ; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day ; Congress passed it by voice vote on the 31st ; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing its director ( Fechner ), and assigning War Department corps area commanders the task to commence enrollment.

The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.

The U. S. Army first authorized identification tags in War Department General Order No. 204, dated December 20, 1906, which essentially prescribes the Kennedy identification tag:

In reality, the notch was designed to hold the tag in place when being imprinted on the carbon-paper medical form by the Model 70 Addressograph ( a pistol-type imprinting machine used by the Medical Department during World War II ).

The World War 2, German bomber rolled down a runway and took off.

He made his fortune during World War 2, when he took over a number of dying steel plants and kept them alive until the boom.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

In 1944, van Vogt moved to Hollywood, California, where his writing took on new dimensions after World War II.

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

Hence it took a prominent part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene ( 426 ) which crippled its resources.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

In 392 BC he took a prominent part in the Corinthian War, making several successful expeditions into Corinthian territory and capturing Lechaeum and Piraeus.

Although in his later years, towards the end of the Trojan War, his old opponents took his side again against the Greeks under their queen Penthesilea " of Thracian birth ", who was slain by Achilles.

During this time, his parents took part in the Spanish Civil War in supporting rather than fighting roles.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.

Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.

After World War I, the Anthroposophical movement took on new directions.

He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation.

Due to the Anglo-Boer War, the first census of Bechuanaland Protectorate, originally set to occur in 1901, took place on 17 April 1904.

The Battles of Lostwithiel or Lostwithiel Campaign, took place near Lostwithiel and Fowey during the First English Civil War in 1644.

Following the Six-Day War, Israel took control of the city.

Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ).