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Contrast that with the “big, beautiful” spending bill being steered through Congress by today’s career politicians, who ...
We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.” ...
Unquestionably it was a foundational document for America, calling for unity against Great Britain in the struggle for ...
On July 3, 1863, the Union army under the command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E ...
The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...
On Christmas day, 1776, George Washington’s Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to attack the British forces at the Battle of Trenton, in what Kelsey Grammer called "the most daring ...
The Army commemorated its 250th anniversary with a festival and parade in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, which is also ...
A viral photo claims that George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army. That's Mostly True, although the inoculation process back then went by another name, variolation.
As commander of the Continental Army, Washington ordered his troops to be inoculated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War. Now the Pentagon is making the same demand: active-duty troops ...
“George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army,” reads the text of an image that’s being shared on social media with an illustration of the first president of the ...
But this is basically true. According to the Fred W. Smith National Library for Study of George Washington, Washington and his Continental Army "faced a threat that proved deadlier than the ...
On Jan. 6, 1777, Washington wrote a letter to Dr. William Shippen Jr., the Director General of Hospitals of the Continental Army, ordering troops to be inoculated. It's available here via the ...