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Margaret Kemble was born in New Brunswick, Province of New Jersey, and lived in East Brunswick Township. [1] [2] [3] She was the daughter of Peter Kemble, a wealthy New Jersey businessman and politician, and Gertrude Bayard; the granddaughter of Judge Samuel Bayard (b. 1669) and Margaretta Van Cortlandt (b. 1674); and the great-granddaughter of Mayor of New York City Stephanus Van Cortlandt ...
Horatio Lloyd Gates (July 26, 1727 – April 10, 1806) was a British-born American army officer who served as a general in the Continental Army during the early years of the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory in the Battles of Saratoga (1777) – a matter of contemporary and historical controversy – and was blamed for ...
Hilda I. Ortiz Clayton [b] (May 21, 1991 – July 2, 2013) was a U.S. Army combat photographer who was killed in 2013 when a mortar accidentally exploded during an Afghan training exercise. She captured the explosion that killed her and four Afghan soldiers. [ 1 ]
A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [ 3 ] [ 14 ] [ 4 ] the ...
Killed while covering a foot patrol. The first US military journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan. [11] 10 January 2010: Rupert Hamer: Nawa, Nawa-I-Barakzayi District, Helmand Province: The British Sunday Mirror war correspondent and his photographer were traveling with US troops when their vehicle hit an IED. Hamer died along with a US ...
Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi is the only British-Muslim soldier to be killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. [ 20 ] On 5 July, Private Damien Raymond Jackson , aged 19, from 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, died as a result of injuries sustained during a firefight with Taliban forces at approximately 1400 hours local time in Sangin ...
Bill Gates posts photos of daughter Phoebe Gates for her 20th birthday. His other children are Jennifer Gates and Rory Gates, with ex-wife Melinda Gates.
CNN stated that the pictures from the Afghanistan hangar depict "a massive open head wound across both eyes. It's very bloody and gory." [212] U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe said the photos taken of the body on the Carl Vinson, which showed bin Laden's face after much of the blood and material had been washed away, should be released to the public. [214]