December 30, 2024
Tag: Lancaster PA
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James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States
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Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”
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April 23, 2023 3 Comments
The National Army Museum of the UK calls the Boer War a bitter colonial war against the Boers in South Africa. For three years (1899-1902) the British Army outnumbered the Boers, but the Boers were a skilled and determined enemy. The British prevailed, but not without adopting controversial tactics.