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  2. Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground - Wikipedia

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    Each hard rain caused disruption, washing bodies into the creek. Christopher McPherson, a formerly enslaved free person of color, described the appalling conditions of the burial ground in his 1810 book "A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

  3. 11th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    3rd: December 3, 1810 – March 3, 1811 The 11th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives .

  4. List of United States Military Academy top-ranking graduates

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    James B. McPherson: Brigadier General (USA) Major General (USV) served in the Corps of Engineers, killed at the Battle of Atlanta 1864 while commanding the Army of the Tennessee: 1854 Custis Lee: 1st Lieutenant (USA) Major General Eldest son of Robert E. Lee, served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. [6] 1855

  5. Clan Macpherson - Wikipedia

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    A romantic depiction of a clansman illustrated by R. R. McIan, from James Logan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845 The late chief Sir William Macpherson (right) and a clansman wearing two different Macpherson tartans [3]

  6. List of slave owners - Wikipedia

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    Ana Gallum (or Nansi Wiggins; fl. 1811), was an African Senegalese slave who was freed and married the white Florida planter Don Joseph "Job" Wiggins, in 1801 succeeding in having his will, leaving her his plantation and slaves, recognized as legal. [123] Horatio Gates (1727–1806), American general during the American Revolutionary War. Seven ...

  7. 1811 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Roberts and the "War Hawk" Congress of 1811–1812. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 104, No. 4 (October 1980), pp. 434–449; Raymond H. Hammes. The Cantine Mounds of Southern Illinois: The First Published Report of Their Existence and an 1811 Eyewitness Account of the Monks Who Lived There.

  8. List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the ...

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    The Légion d'Honneur was awarded to 746 members of the British Armed Forces during the Crimean War (also known as the Russian War) which lasted from 1854 to 1856. Prior to the Crimean War there was no precedent of a mass exchange of awards between allied nations.

  9. John William Draper - Wikipedia

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    John William Draper was born May 5, 1811, in St. Helens, Lancashire, England, [3] to John Christopher Draper, a Wesleyan clergyman, and Sarah (Ripley) Draper. He also had three sisters, Dorothy Catherine Draper (August 6, 1807 – December 10, 1901), [4] Elizabeth Johnson, and Sarah Ripley.