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22 hours ago · The United States Military Academy ( USMA) ( West Point or Army) [8] is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort during the American Revolutionary War, as it sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City.
- Service Academies
The United States service academies, also known as United...
- Oliver O. Howard
Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was...
- Superintendent of The United States Military Academy
Logo of the Military Academy. The superintendent of the...
- Army Black Knights
The Army Black Knights are the athletic teams that represent...
- List of United States Military Academy Alumni
Traditional hat toss anniversary graduation ceremony at the...
- History of The United States Military Academy
The history of the United States Military Academy can be...
- Fort Clinton
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post...
- Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper (March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940) was...
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22 hours ago · Barbara Annette Robbins is the first American woman to die in the Vietnam War; she is a secretary for the CIA, and is the first woman at the CIA killed in the line of duty, as well as the youngest CIA employee ever killed. She dies in a car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam in 1965, at the age of 21.
22 hours ago · Spanish. The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern and Northeastern United States ...
22 hours ago · Annual. Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, lit. 'the Day of the Festival of Patrick'), is a religious and cultural holiday held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( c. 385 – c. 461 ), the foremost patron saint of Ireland . Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian ...
22 hours ago · Early life Further information: President James K. Polk Historic Site Reconstruction of the log cabin in Pineville, North Carolina where Polk was born James Knox Polk was born on November 2, 1795, in a log cabin in Pineville, North Carolina. He was the first of 10 children born into a family of farmers. His mother Jane named him after her father, James Knox. His father Samuel Polk was a farmer ...
22 hours ago · 2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
22 hours ago · Ulysses S. Grant, commander of Illinois regiment, Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) (born in Ohio) Ulysses S. Grant III, soldier, city planner, grandson of U.S. Grant; Cammi Granato, captain of 1998 Winter Olympics gold-medal U.S. women's hockey team, Hockey Hall of Fame
