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The museum's B-25 and P-51 performed flyovers at a Virginia Tech football game on 22 September 2012. [14] Three World War II veterans received the French Legion of Honour at an event held at the museum on 12 February 2013. [15] The museum's B-25 performed a flyover for Doolittle Raider Tom Griffin's funeral on 9 March 2013. [16]
The Congress had little money to pay the soldiers who fought for independence. They made promises of land to induce army enlistment. By resolutions of September 16 and 18, 1776, and August 12, September 22, and October 3, 1780, they proposed to give each officer or private continuously to serve in the United States army until the close of the war, or until discharged, or to the representatives ...
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[2] It was the first frontier fort built in Ohio Country. [3] It is notable as the site for the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar between the United States and several Native American tribes. The presence of Fort Harmar was influential in the founding of Marietta, Ohio in 1788 to the east across the Muskingum.
The Firelands, or Sufferers' Lands, tract was located at the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.It was legislatively established in 1792, as the "Sufferers' Lands", and later became named "Fire Lands" because the resale of the land was intended as financial restitution for residents of the Connecticut towns of Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich ...
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Ebenezer Zane was the namesake of Zane's Trace, commemorated on stone trail marker at National Road Museum in Norwich, Ohio.. Ebenezer Zane (October 7, 1747 – November 19, 1811) was an American pioneer, soldier, politician, road builder and land speculator.
Smithsonian American Art Museum Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees is an 1821 painting by the American portrait artist Charles Bird King (1785–1862), who is best known for his portrayals of significant Native American leaders and tribesmen.