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The George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument, also known as Sighting the Enemy, [4] [5] is an equestrian statue of General George Armstrong Custer located in Monroe, Michigan. The statue, sculpted by Edward Clark Potter , was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on June 15, 1992 [ 3 ] and soon after listed on the National Register of ...
Congress approved of a statue, to be made from 20 condemned bronze cannons, and for $10,000, of which $6,000 had been subscribed by citizens of New York. [1] The monument was originally located near the academy's headquarters building near the site of present-day Taylor Hall along Thayer Road.
1871 – Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the downtown on October 8 and died out the following night. About 250 dead. 1871 – Peshtigo Fire of 1871, several towns destroyed in a firestorm that reached Michigan, 1,500–2,500 dead. Deadliest wildfire in American history.
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Statue of James Braidwood (2008), located in Parliament Square in Edinburgh, Scotland. He founded what is asserted to be the world's first municipal fire service, in Edinburgh, after the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824. Plaque for firefighter William Rae, Hunter Street, Glasgow [6]
Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Wert, Jeffry D. Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 0-684-83275-5. Wittenberg, Eric J. (2001). Glory Enough for All : Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian ...
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