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June 28 is the 179th day of the year ... 1778 – American Revolutionary War: ... 1987 – For the first time in military history, ...
When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, the city of Charlestown, in the Province of South Carolina, was a center of commerce in southern North America. The city's citizens joined other colonists in opposing the British parliament's attempts to tax them, and militia recruitment increased when word arrived of the April 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord. [4]
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Highlights of this day in history: An assassination in Europe sparks World War I; Elian Gonzalez and his father leave for Cuba; Boxer Mike Tyson disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear ...
General Henry Clinton by Andrea Soldi. Washington's preference for a professional standing army rather than a militia had been another source of criticism. [20] He had seen his army dissolve in the fall of 1775 as short-term enlistments expired, and blamed his defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 in part on a poorly performing militia. [21]
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Democratic Robert Byrd of West Virginia, President pro tempore of the United States Senate and the longest serving member its history, dies at age 92 in Washington, D.C. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii succeeds Byrd as President Pro Tempore , making Inouye the highest ranking Asian American politician in American history.
Lyman J. Gage (June 28, 1836 – January 26, 1927) was an American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer. From March 1897 until January 1902, he served as Secretary of the Treasury in the successive administrations of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt .