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Brigadier General (sometimes known as a one-star general from the United States insignia) is the lowest rank of general officer in the United States and other countries, ranking just above Colonel and just below Major General. Brigadier General - Argentina. The rank of Brigadier General (with some local variations) is used on both the Argentine Army and the Argentine Air Force. In both cases, the use of the rank is different than that of other military forces of the world. The Army's rank of Gener ...

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• Brigadier General - Germany
• Brigadier General - Israel
• Brigadier General - Korea
• Brigadier General - United Kingdom
• Brigadier General - United States
• Brigadier General - List of notable Brigadier Generals

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The Virginia Military Institute (VMI), located in Lexington, Virginia, is the oldest state military college in the United States and the Nation's only classical state military college: all VMI students are cadets. VMI offers a spartan, physically demanding environment combined with strict military discipline. Cadets pursue bachelor's degrees in 14 disciplines in the fields of engineering, science, and liberal arts. For the past five years, VMI has been ranked America's #1 public liberal arts college by the magazin ...

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• Virginia Military Institute - Civil War period
• Virginia Military Institute - World War I and II
• Virginia Military Institute - Student life
• Virginia Military Institute - Ratline
• Virginia Military Institute - Honor System
• Virginia Military Institute - Minority and female students
• Virginia Military Institute - Admission of women
• Virginia Military Institute - Military service
• Virginia Military Institute - Athletics
• Virginia Military Institute - Notable graduates
• Virginia Military Institute - VMI trivia

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The United States Army Air Forces, or USAAF, was a part of the U.S. military during World War II. The direct precursor to the U.S. Air Force, the USAAF formally existed between 1941 and 1947. United States Army Air Forces - History. Prior to the start of World War II, the USAAF was known as the U.S. Army Air Corps, or USAAC. The USAAC was a corps-level, subsidiary organization within the U.S. Army, and had little autonomy. Due to the efforts of several key USAAC officers and the changing political ti ...

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• United States Army Air Forces - History
• United States Army Air Forces - The sixteen Air Forces
• United States Army Air Forces - List of air forces
• United States Army Air Forces - Air Force independence
• United States Army Air Forces - Notable people who served in the USAAF
• United States Army Air Forces - Badges of the Army Air Forces
• United States Army Air Forces - Sources

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• Confederate States of America - History
• Confederate States of America - Government and politics
• Confederate States of America - Constitution
• Confederate States of America - Capital
• Confederate States of America - International diplomacy and legal status
• Confederate States of America - Confederate flags
• Confederate States of America - Political leaders of the Confederacy
• Confederate States of America - Geography
• Confederate States of America - Economy
• Confederate States of America - Armed Forces
• Confederate States of America - Military leaders of the Confederacy
• Confederate States of America - Significant dates

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The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp near the city of Dachau, north of Munich, in Bavaria (southern Germany). The camp was constructed in a disused gunpowder factory and was completed on March 21, 1933. Together with the much larger Auschwitz extermination camp, Dachau has come to exemplify Nazi concentration camps to the general public. Dachau concentration camp - 1933-1945. Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp and served as a prototype and model for the others ...

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• Dachau concentration camp - 1933-1945
• Dachau concentration camp - Liberation of the camp 1945
• Dachau concentration camp - The memorial site
• Dachau concentration camp - Notable prisoners of Dachau
• Dachau concentration camp - Jews
• Dachau concentration camp - Resistance fighters
• Dachau concentration camp - Clergymen
• Dachau concentration camp - Politicians
• Dachau concentration camp - Communists

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Wargaming is the play of simulated military operations in the form of games known as war games. It can be one of a number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. It can take the form of a hobby in which one or more players simulate battles or entire wars (as a type of simulation game), or a model or computer simulation of possible scenarios in military planning, (this is also called warfare simulation, see also defense contractors); or the full-scale rehearsal of military maneuve ...

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• Wargaming - Tabletop wargaming miniature wargaming
• Wargaming - Board wargaming
• Wargaming - Computerized wargaming
• Wargaming - Types of military wargaming
• Wargaming - Environment
• Wargaming - Historical period
• Wargaming - Unit or map scale
• Wargaming - Notable wargamers
• Wargaming - Notable wargames
• Wargaming - Wargames and wargaming as computer terms

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Albert Pike (* December 29, 1809 in Boston; † April 2, 1891 in Washington, D.C.) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Albert Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with a statue in Washington D.C. The statue sits in Judiciary Square. Albert Pike - Biography. Pike was born in Boston, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Andrews) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts. He attended school in Newburyport and Framingham until he was 15, a ...

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• Albert Pike - Biography
• Albert Pike - After the war
• Albert Pike - In Freemasonry
• Albert Pike - Albert Pike and the Ku Klux Klan
• Albert Pike - Conspiracy theories
• Albert Pike - Literature
• Albert Pike - Biography
• Albert Pike - Ancestry & Family

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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was elected twice (1789-1797). Washington first gained prominence as an officer during the French and Indian War, as a leader of colonial militia supporting the British Empire. After leading the American victory in the Revolutionary War, he refused to lead a military regime, retur ...

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• George Washington - Early life
• George Washington - French and Indian War: 1753-1773
• George Washington - American Revolution: 1774-1783
• George Washington - Virginia Planter 1783-1787
• George Washington - Presidency: 1789-1797
• George Washington - Cabinet
• George Washington - Supreme Court appointments
• George Washington - Major presidential acts
• George Washington - States admitted to the Union
• George Washington - Farewell Address
• George Washington - Retirement and death
• George Washington - After his death
• George Washington - Monuments and memorials
• George Washington - Summary of military career
• George Washington - Personal information
• George Washington - Washington and slavery
• George Washington - Religious beliefs
• George Washington - Trivia
• George Washington - Scholarly secondary sources
• George Washington - Notes

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The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was created on 1 December 1941 (just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor), and is credited with sinking at least two German U-boats during World War II. Today, CAP is no longer called on to destroy submarines, but is instead a benevolent entity dedicated to education and national service. It is a volunteer organization with a strongly aviation-minded membership that includes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. I ...

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• Civil Air Patrol - History
• Civil Air Patrol - Origin
• Civil Air Patrol - World War II
• Civil Air Patrol - Postwar
• Civil Air Patrol - Missions
• Civil Air Patrol - Emergency Services
• Civil Air Patrol - The Cadet Program
• Civil Air Patrol - Aerospace Education Program
• Civil Air Patrol - Equipment
• Civil Air Patrol - Aircraft
• Civil Air Patrol - Ground vehicles
• Civil Air Patrol - Communication
• Civil Air Patrol - Members
• Civil Air Patrol - Senior members
• Civil Air Patrol - Senior Member Program
• Civil Air Patrol - Administration
• Civil Air Patrol - Organization
• Civil Air Patrol - Funding
• Civil Air Patrol - Future changes
• Civil Air Patrol - Media
• Civil Air Patrol - Books
• Civil Air Patrol - Television and movies

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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was the military side of the American Revolution. It was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and the United States of America. The war began largely as a colonial revolt against the economic policies of the British Empire, but eventually widened far beyond British North America, with France, Spain, and the Netherlands entering the war against Great Britain. Addition ...

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• American Revolutionary War - Combatants
• American Revolutionary War - Political Crisis of 1775-1776
• American Revolutionary War - European nations
• American Revolutionary War - Blacks and Native Americans
• American Revolutionary War - War in the North
• American Revolutionary War - Massachusetts 1774 to 1776
• American Revolutionary War - Canada 1775 to 1776
• American Revolutionary War - New York and New Jersey 1776 to 1777
• American Revolutionary War - Saratoga Campaign 1777
• American Revolutionary War - Philadelphia campaign 1777 to 1778
• American Revolutionary War - War in the West
• American Revolutionary War - War in the South
• American Revolutionary War - Carolinas 1780 to 1781
• American Revolutionary War - Virginia 1775 to 1781
• American Revolutionary War - War at sea
• American Revolutionary War - Gulf Coast
• American Revolutionary War - Caribbean
• American Revolutionary War - India
• American Revolutionary War - Netherlands
• American Revolutionary War - Mediterranean
• American Revolutionary War - Whitehaven
• American Revolutionary War - War's end
• American Revolutionary War - Casualties
• American Revolutionary War - Notes
• American Revolutionary War - Scholarly Secondary Sources

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listed alphabetically John Carroll University - Media. Tim Russert - Host of Meet the Press John Carroll University - Government/Military. Carter Ham - Brigadier General, United States Army; commanding officer in Mosul, Iraq Donald Korb - Chief Counsel, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Donald J. McConnell - Former United States Ambassador to Eritrea Tom Murphy - Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mary Rose ...

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John Carroll University, John Carroll University - History, John Carroll University - Core Curriculum, John Carroll University - Notable alumni, John Carroll University - Media, John Carroll University - Government/Military, John Carroll University - Business, John Carroll University - Sports, John Carroll University - Religion, John Carroll University - Activism, John Carroll University - Academics

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The main benefactor of the Pioneer Fund was Wickliffe Draper. Among the other notable founders were Frederick Henry Osborn and Harry H. Laughlin. Osborn was the secretary of the American Eugenics Society, which was part of an accepted and active field at the time, the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Selective Service during World War II and later the Deputy U.S. Representative to the UN Atomic Energy Commission. Laughlin was the director of the Eugenics Record Office and served as the presi ...

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Pioneer Fund, Pioneer Fund - Early history, Pioneer Fund - Current funding, Pioneer Fund - Scientific research, Pioneer Fund - Political and legal funding, Pioneer Fund - Founders and directors, Pioneer Fund - Criticism, Pioneer Fund - Responses to criticisms

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The Roswell incident received little mainstream attention until 1978, when researchers Stanton T. Friedman and William L. Moore compared notes from a series of interviews each had conducted independently. Roswell UFO incident - Lydia Sleppy and Jesse Marcel interview. Friedman and Moore interviewed Lydia Sleppy, a teletype operator who worked at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio station in 1947, and United States Air Force Lt. Colonel Jesse A. Marcel (ret.), chief intelligence officer at Roswell base in 19 ...

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Roswell UFO incident, Roswell UFO incident - Overview: The story as reported in 1947 and the controversy, Roswell UFO incident - Incident, Roswell UFO incident - Press releases and news, Roswell UFO incident - Inconsistent accounts and cover stories, Roswell UFO incident - Later stories of strange debris, Roswell UFO incident - General Ramey's Roswell telegram, Roswell UFO incident - Decline of interest, Roswell UFO incident - Renewed interest, Roswell UFO incident - Lydia Sleppy and Jesse Marcel interview, Roswell UFO incident - Brigadier General Arthur Exon testimony, Roswell UFO incident - Brigadier General Thomas J. Dubose report, Roswell UFO incident - Other witnesses, Roswell UFO incident - Skeptics' views, Roswell UFO incident - Similar incidents, Roswell UFO incident - Theories and Analysis, Roswell UFO incident - Conventional theories, Roswell UFO incident - The Alien Autopsy film, Roswell UFO incident - UFO Crash theories, Roswell UFO incident - Recent developments, Roswell UFO incident - Cultural Influence and Trivia, Roswell UFO incident - Roswell International UFO Museum, Roswell UFO incident - Secret FBI teletype, Roswell UFO incident - Excerpts from newspaper account of Brazel's find, Roswell UFO incident - Sources generally pro-UFO explanations, Roswell UFO incident - Books for further reading debunkery, Roswell UFO incident - 1947 newspaper articles and press bulletins

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The rank of Brigadier-General was abolished in the British Army and Royal Marines in 1922. It was replaced initially by the appointment of Colonel-Commandant, but this was seen as rather un-British and in 1928 was replaced by the appointment of Brigadier (which became a full rank after World War II). The old rank of Brigadier General has since been reintroduced in Canada and some other Commonwealth countries. Strictly speaking, a Brigadier in the British Army is the highest field officer rank - hence the dropping ...

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Brigadier General, Brigadier General - Argentina, Brigadier General - Australia, Brigadier General - Belgium, Brigadier General - Germany, Brigadier General - Israel, Brigadier General - Korea, Brigadier General - United Kingdom, Brigadier General - United States, Brigadier General - List of notable Brigadier Generals

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From 501 BC the Athenian democracy elected ten generals elected each year, one for each of the ten democratic 'tribes'. Originally the generals worked together with the old polemarch ('war leader'), but while the name remained this figure soon lost all military function . Strategos literally means 'leader of the army', hence the translation general, but once Athens at the instigation of Themistocles became a naval power, the generals had charge of the navy as well. The ten generals were equals of each other without any ranking: at the ...

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Strategos, Strategos - The office of Strategos in Athenian democracy, Strategos - References, Strategos - The office of Strategos in other ancient Greek states, Strategos - Modern use, Strategos - Fictional uses

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A few months after the Balangiga Massacre, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered Bell's commander General Adna Chaffee to adopt, "in no unmistakable terms," "the most stern measures to pacify Samar."[1] On December 7, 1901, Bell wrote a letter beginning with this introduction: "the United States Government, disregarding many provocations to do otherwise , has for three years exercised an extraordinary forbearance and patiently adhered to a magnanimous and benevolent policy toward the inhabit ...

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J. Franklin Bell, J. Franklin Bell - Indian Wars, J. Franklin Bell - Spanish-American War, J. Franklin Bell - War crimes, J. Franklin Bell - Service in America, J. Franklin Bell - Additional Reading, J. Franklin Bell - Footnotes

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First granted as "Monadnock No. 4" in 1752 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, this was one in a line of eight towns settled by Scottish colonists. Incorporated in 1773 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for his cousin, William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam. Two early grantee in Fitzwilliam was Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of Independence and James Reed who would go on to lead the 3rd NH Regt. at Bunker Hill. The community claims one of the oldest granite quarries in New Hampshire. Other industries included ...

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Fitzwilliam New Hampshire, Fitzwilliam New Hampshire - History, Fitzwilliam New Hampshire - Geography, Fitzwilliam New Hampshire - Demographics

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Kim Possible - Steve Barkin. The principal of Middleton High School. He frequently turns up in charge of almost every class, ranging from gym to home economics, due to the fact that the other teachers seem to be perpetually sick or on vacation. A gruff, humorless fellow with an apparent military background (and possibly a little shell-shocked because of it), he's normally quite abrasive with the students and seems particularly harsh with Ron Stoppable ("I looked at him funny once in the 9th Grade, and he's ...

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Kim Possible, Kim Possible - About the show, Kim Possible - Team Possible, Kim Possible - Kimberly Ann Kim Possible, Kim Possible - Ronald Ron Stoppable, Kim Possible - Rufus, Kim Possible - Wade Load, Kim Possible - Classmates, Kim Possible - Bonnie Rockwaller, Kim Possible - Monique, Kim Possible - Josh Mankey, Kim Possible - Brick Flagg, Kim Possible - Tara, Kim Possible - School Staff, Kim Possible - Steve Barkin, Kim Possible - Family, Kim Possible - Dr. Possible Kim's mother, Kim Possible - Dr. James Timothy Possible Kim's father, Kim Possible - Jim and Tim Possible, Kim Possible - The Villains, Kim Possible - Drew Theodore P. Lipsky aka Dr. Drakken, Kim Possible - Shego, Kim Possible - Señor Senior Sr., Kim Possible - Señor Senior Jr., Kim Possible - Lord Monty Fiske aka Monkey Fist, Kim Possible - Duff Killigan, Kim Possible - Amy Hall aka DNAmy, Kim Possible - Professor Demen Dementor, Kim Possible - Minor villains, Kim Possible - Eddy Lipsky aka Motor Ed, Kim Possible - Gill formerly Gil, Kim Possible - Adrena Lynn, Kim Possible - Sheldon Director aka Gemini, Kim Possible - Aviarious, Kim Possible - The Knights of Rodigan, Kim Possible - Malcolm Neevious aka The Wraith Master, Kim Possible - The 'Killer' Bebes, Kim Possible - Frugal Lucre, Kim Possible - Falsetto Jones, Kim Possible - Dr. Phen, Kim Possible - Fukushima, Kim Possible - Minor Allies, Kim Possible - Dr. Betty Director, Kim Possible - Will Du, Kim Possible - Professor Cyrus Bortel, Kim Possible - Yori, Kim Possible - Sensei, Kim Possible - Hirotaka, Kim Possible - Felix Renton, Kim Possible - Team Go, Kim Possible - Video Games

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Congressman Henry Light Horse Harry Lee, a Revolutionary War comrade, famously eulogized Washington as "a citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Washington set many precedents that established tranquility in the presidential office in the years to come. His choice to peacefully relinquish the presidency to John Adams, after serving two terms in office, is ...

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George Washington, George Washington - Early life, George Washington - French and Indian War: 1754-1763, George Washington - American Revolution: 1774-1783, George Washington - Virginia Planter 1783-1787, George Washington - Presidency: 1789-1797, George Washington - Cabinet, George Washington - Supreme Court appointments, George Washington - Major presidential acts, George Washington - States admitted to the Union, George Washington - Retirement and death, George Washington - After his death, George Washington - Monuments and memorials, George Washington - Summary of military career, George Washington - Personal information, George Washington - Washington and slavery, George Washington - Religious beliefs, George Washington - Trivia, George Washington - Notes

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In 1951 Argentina sent their emissary, Brigadier General San Martín, to the United States in an attempt to convince an auto manufacturer to build cars in Argentina. In 1954 Kaiser was the only one to accept the offer with the rest believing the market was too small to justify the investment. But they didn't have the rugged products Kaiser did. On January 19, 1955 Kaiser and the government of Argentina signed an agreement to permit Kaiser to manufacture automobiles and trucks in Argentina. In February, Kaiser created a wholly owned subsidiar ...

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Kaiser-Frazer, Kaiser-Frazer - History, Kaiser-Frazer - Kaiser Frazer Products, Kaiser-Frazer - Kaiser in Argentina

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