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The Spanish-American War lasted for 113 days and resulted in the deaths of 385 U.S. service members in battle in addition to about 2,000 deaths due to wounds and disease.
Dale L. Walker, The Boys of ’98: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1998), 13-14.
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For Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1952 presidential inauguration, President Harry S Truman ordered Eisenhower’s son home from military service in the Korean War.
Steve Neal, Harry and Ike: The Partnership that Remade the Postwar World (New York: Scribner, 2001), 287. In the presidential election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln received one percent of the popular vote in Virginia and less than three percent in Maryland.
Karen Abbott, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014), 26. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s clandestine trip to meet Winston Churchill in Casablanca, Morocco in January of 1943 was the first time a U.S. president visited Africa.
Hazel Rowley, Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 259-60. |
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