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Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster (16 January 1245 – 5 June 1296), also known as Edmund Crouchback, was a member of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty and the founder of the first House of Lancaster. He was Earl of Leicester (1265–1296), Lancaster (1267–1296) and Derby (1269–1296) in England and Count Palatine of Champagne (1276–1284) in France.
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951, was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres (46 ha) in Washington, D.C. , it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces .
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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ( WRNMMC; formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med) is a United States military medical center located in Bethesda, Maryland.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Walter Reed General Hospital opened its doors on May 1, 1909. The Commander of the Army General Hospital, Major William C. Borden had lobbied for several years for a new hospital to replace the aged one at Washington Barracks, now Ft. McNair. Borden and Major Walter Reed, who became best known as the leading ...
Aug 31, 2011 · For more than a century, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center was known as the hospital that catered to presidents and generals. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was treated and died there....
In 1972, after more than five years of planning, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for a new Walter Reed Army Medical Center hospital facility. On September 26, 1977 the new facility was dedicated. In 1994 the building was re-dedicated and named the Heaton Pavilion in honor of Lieutenant General Leonard Heaton, a former commander of WRAMC ...
Aug 28, 2005 · For nearly a century, Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been a Washington fixture, a stately campus dotted with crepe myrtles. Last week, the Base Closure and Realignment Commission...
