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  2. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben (/ ˈ s tj uː b ən / STEW-bən or / s tj uː ˈ b ɛ n / stew-BEN, [1] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈʃtɔʏbn̩]; born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Louis von Steuben; September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794), also referred to as Baron von Steuben, was a German-born American army officer who played a leading ...

  3. Statue of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Wikipedia

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    Steuben assisted with the Southern Campaign and Siege of Yorktown, after which the American forces were successful in winning the war. Steuben was given land and later retired in New York, where he died in 1794. In the late 1890s, plans were made to erect statues in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C., honoring foreign heroes.

  4. The Herald Republican - Wikipedia

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    Two competing weekly newspapers, the Steuben Republican (founded in 1857 by J. M. Bromagen as a Republican paper) and the Angola Herald (founded in 1876 by Isaac L. Wiseman, Democratic in politics), [3] formed the Steuben Printing Company as a joint venture in 1925 and eventually became sister newspapers upon the death of the Herald 's publisher, Harvey Morley, in the 1960s.

  5. United States Capitol rotunda - Wikipedia

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    Landing of Columbus: Constantino Brumidi Christopher Columbus is depicted arriving in the Americas in the first of four scenes of the Spanish conquest. Columbus disembarks off a plank from the Santa María. His crew, armed with weapons, stays aboard; one crew member has a spyglass. Native Americans are portrayed greeting Columbus.

  6. Von Steuben Day - Wikipedia

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    Von Steuben Day is a holiday traditionally held on a weekend in mid-September (von Steuben was born September 17), celebrating the Prussian-born Baron Friedrich von Steuben, who arrived in the United States as a volunteer offering his services to General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. Von Steuben is still regarded as one ...

  7. List of people from Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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    Henry C. Newcomer (1861–1952), U.S. Army brigadier general, engineer whose work included Taft Bridge and improvements to Washington Aqueduct; retired to Washington, D.C. [23] Edward C. Peter II (1929 – 2008), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commander of Fourth United States Army ; born in D.C. [ 24 ]

  8. Ohio State congratulates alum JD Vance on landing Trump's ...

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    Preisse also pointed out that the last time Ohio had a Republican vice president was in 1925 with the election of Charles Dawes, who served as vice president under Calvin Coolidge from 1925 to ...

  9. United States presidential elections in the District of Columbia

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    As a result, Al Gore received only two of the three electoral votes from Washington, D.C. [4] In 2016, 85.7% of the registered voters approved a statehood referendum. [5] In recent times, there have been various statehood movements in the District of Columbia, which advocates making the district a state. [6] [7]