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Wars in Iraq Troops Comparison

7/26/2018

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The size of the U.S. force used in Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003 – 2011) peaked at 240,000 U.S. troops, less than half the amount used in Operation Desert Storm (1991). 

Mark K. Updegrove, The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush (New York: HarperCollins, 2017), 338.  

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Grant and Twain

7/13/2018

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When Ulysses S. Grant worked in finance in New York City after his presidency, Mark Twain often visited him at his office.

Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2011), 8.  

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One Catholic at the Continental Congress

7/6/2018

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Although Charles Carroll attended the First Continental Congress, he was not officially part of Maryland’s delegation because of his Roman Catholic faith; two years later he attended the Second Continental Congress and became the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Jay P. Dolan, The Irish Americans: A History (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 14. 
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