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TAPS support for survivors extends beyond grief work to advocacy and assistance with casework and benefits. TAPS supports and advances policy and legislation to strengthen the families of America's fallen military heroes. [41] TAPS Policy team listens to the concerns of surviving military families and advocates on their behalf. [42]
"Taps" is derived from the same source as "Tattoo". [4] [5] "Taps" is sometimes said to originate from the Dutch taptoe, meaning "close the (beer) taps (and send the troops back to camp)". An alternative explanation, however, is that it carried over from a term already in use before the American Civil War.
The medical crisis of the Spanish–American War had far-reaching consequences: [175] More soldiers died from disease than from combat (fewer than 400 killed in action vs. thousands from illness) This led to significant reforms in military medicine and sanitation practices. Special boards, such as the U.S. Army Typhoid Board, were established ...
The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War , forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars .
The heart of the Spanish American community in that area were the two landmarks: the Spanish Benevolent Society and the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, founded at the turn of the 19th century, being the first parish in Manhattan with mass in Latin and Spanish. Another area of influence is the Unanue family of Goya Foods.
Panhispanism or pan-Hispanism (Spanish: panhispanismo), sometimes just called hispanism (Spanish: hispanismo), is an ideology advocating for social, economic, and political cooperation, as well as often political unification, of the Hispanic world.
The Aragon Offensive was an important military campaign during the Spanish Civil War, which began after the Battle of Teruel.The offensive, which ran from March 7, 1938, to April 19, 1938, smashed the Republican forces, overran Aragon, and conquered parts of Catalonia and the Levante.
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...