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  2. United States Semiquincentennial - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, Revolution 250, a non-profit group organized to plan commemorative events in Boston surrounding the semiquincentennial, was established. [12] According to the organization, it is a consortium of 56 groups, [13] including the Society of the Cincinnati, the National Park Service, the Boston Tea Party Museum, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Suffolk University history ...

  3. Generations of warfare - Wikipedia

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    The term second generation warfare was created by the U.S. military in 1989. Third-generation warfare focuses on using late modern technology-derived tactics of leveraging speed, stealth, and surprise to bypass the enemy's lines and collapse their forces from the rear. Essentially, this was the end of linear warfare on a tactical level, with ...

  4. List of conflicts by duration - Wikipedia

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    18 years Mahdist War: 1881: 1899: 18 years Second Punic War: 218 BC: 201 BC: 17 years Ethiopian Civil War: 12 September 1974: 4 June 1991: 16 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 2 days First Sudanese Civil War: 18 August 1955: 27 March 1972: 16 years, 7 months, 1 week and 2 days Bolivian War of Independence: 1809: 1825: 16 years Chilean War of ...

  5. List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. [citation needed] These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.

  6. “History Cool Kids”: 91 Interesting Pictures From The Past

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    At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict. On your 62nd birthday there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War.

  7. Strauss–Howe generational theory - Wikipedia

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    Because the lost generation were so decimated by World War I, the leadership of the missionary generation lasted longer than previous generations and in the 1930s and 1940s, their elite became the "wise old men" who enacted a "New Deal" and Social Security, led the global war against fascism, and reaffirmed America's highest ideals during a ...

  8. This Dutton Family Tree Shows How Seven Generations of ... - AOL

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    Country superstar Tim McGraw stars as the patriarch from 1883, a Civil War soldier who leads his family West. He's married to Margaret, and they have three children: Elsa, Spencer, and John Dutton Sr.

  9. Greatest Generation - Wikipedia

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    The Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation and the World War II Generation, is the demographic cohort following the Lost Generation and preceding the Silent Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. [ 1 ]