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Overview. The Great Seal, or the Great Seal of the State of California as it is officially called, is the impression made on "all commissions, pardons and other public instruments to which the signature of the Governor is required" with the attestation of the Secretary of State; the impression, with or without "wafer," is made by a master die and counter die of an officially adopted design ...
Battle of Rich Mountain. Battle of Corrick's Ford †. Signature. Robert Selden Garnett (December 16, 1819 – July 13, 1861) was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army until the American Civil War, when he became a Confederate States Army brigadier general. He was the first general officer killed in the Civil War.
Operation Prosperity Guardian. [5] [6] [7] The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land ( SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy 's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle ...
The Native Sons of the Golden West was founded 11 July 1875 by General A. M. Winn, a Virginian, as a lasting monument to the men and women of the Gold Rush era. General Winn had lived in California during the Gold Rush and was impressed with the spirit and perseverance of the Forty-Niners. Speaking of his object in organizing the Order General ...
Siege of Los Angeles. The siege of Los Angeles, sometimes known as the Battle of Los Angeles, [1] was a military response by armed Mexican civilians to the August 1846 occupation of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles by the United States Marines during the Mexican–American War. [2]
California Historical Quarterly 54.1 (1975): 37-56. online; Some of the best history appears in the appropriate chapters of the multi-volume History of California by Kevin Starr, including Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 (1973) ISBN 978-0-19501-644-4; Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1985) ISBN 0-19 ...
William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), who earned recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies, which he implemented in ...
Had 7,000 members, mostly in Pennsylvania, in the late 1890s. The seal of the order was a five pointed star inscribed with a pentagon. Founders included Freemasons, Oddfellows, Pythians and members of the Grand Army of the Republic. The name was related to the insurance scheme of the order which included a five-year maturing certificate.