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Ballyclare

Jonathan Swift preached here and it was from here the families of Mark Twain, Sam Houston and General Alexander Macomb left for America.

Dey Mansion

Washington also had numerous visitors while at the Dey Mansion, those of which include the Marquis de Lafayette, General Anthony Wayne, Major General Lord Stirling, Benedict Arnold, General William Howe and the Marquis de Chastellux.

Earl of Stirling

The titles became dormant upon the death of the fifth Earl in 1739, although one William Alexander of New York, known to history as Major General Lord Stirling of the Continental Army, years before the American Revolutionary War pursued a claim to succeed to the dormant earldom.

James Seddon

Born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, Seddon was a descendant of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.

Jamestown, Rhode Island

Portions of the films Wind, Me, Myself and Irene, American General, Evening, Dan in Real Life and Moonrise Kingdom were filmed in Jamestown, as well as in various nearby Aquidneck Island towns, such as Middletown and Newport.

Saint Andrew's Society

Past presidents of the venerable society include Philip Livingston, William Alexander (the "Earl of Stirling"), Andrew Carnegie and Ward Melville.


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Akhbar Al Khaleej

With its Arab nationalist stance, the newspaper has led condemnation of the United States’ invasion of Iraq, and has been particularly critical of those Iraqis who have cooperated with the American backed political order: Samira Rajab in 2005 dismissed Iraqi Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as an ‘American general’.

American General Center

The American General Center is a complex of several office buildings in Neartown Houston, Texas located along Allen Parkway.

Benjamin Davis, Jr.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1912–2002), American general, commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen

Bohemia, New York

Proposed new names have included: Sayville Heights, after the town immediately to the south; Lidice, after a Czech town destroyed by Nazi troops during World War II; and MacArthur, after the airport built in the 1940s (the airport is named for famed American General Douglas MacArthur).

Bruno Hochmuth

He was also the first American general to be killed in Vietnam, although Air Force Major General William Crumm had been killed in a B-52 collision over the South China Sea.

Burma Campaign

Chiang ordered the American General Sultan, commanding NCAC, to halt his advance at Lashio, which was captured on 7 March.

Englishtown, New Jersey

At the Battle of Monmouth, an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, American General Charles Lee led the advance and initiated the first attack on the column's rear.

General Duval

Isaac H. Duval, an American general during the American Civil War

Hans Möser

Following the June 1945 Fedden Mission investigation of the Dora conditions, Möser was among 19 defendants tried by the American General Military Government Court in the Dora Trial (The United States of America versus Arthur Kurt Andrae et al., Case Number 000-50-37), part of the Dachau Trials.

History of Pensacola, Florida

The Spanish recaptured Pensacola in 1781 and retained control (excepting three short-lived invasions by American General Andrew Jackson in 1813, 1814, and 1818) until 1821, when the Adams-Onís Treaty ceded all of Spanish Florida to the United States.

History of West Papua

In 1944, forces led by American general Douglas MacArthur launched a four-phase campaign from neighbouring Papua New Guinea to liberate Dutch New Guinea from the Japanese.

Hizon-Singian House

It was occupied during the 1896 revolution by Spanish General Antonio Ruiz Serralde, appropriated by the Japanese Imperial Army to serve as a military hospital and barracks from 1943 to 1944, and served as headquarters of American General Walter Krueger of the 6th American Army during the liberation period until the end of 1945.

Hotel St. Georges

Hotel St. Goerges served as a meeting place for French Admiral Jean-Francois Darlan and American General Mark Clark.

Huntsville, North Carolina

On February 7, 1781, General Cornwallis, in pursuit of American General Nathanael Greene, led his troops across the Yadkin River at the Shallow Ford.

Jacob Smith

Jacob H. Smith (1840–1918), American general and veteran of the Wounded Knee Massacre

José Masot

He was West Florida's governor through much of the First Seminole War, until he was deposed by American general Andrew Jackson and replaced with William King.

Marianna Hill

Hill is a cousin of the late American General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (retired), who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War in 1991, and of minimalist painter Heather Hutchison.

Miguel Malvar

Beginning January 1902, American General J. Franklin Bell took command of operations in Batangas and practiced scorched earth tactics that took a heavy toll on both guerrilla fighters and civilians alike.

Musa Qala

The situation created a crisis for the ISAF forces in Afghanistan, on the very day that the British commanding officer General David Richards handed over charge of the ISAF team to an American, General Dan K. McNeill; MacNeil suggested that "surgical and deliberate" force would be used to evict the fighters from Musa Qala.

Oscar Solbert

Oscar Nathaniel Solbert (January 22, 1885 – April 16, 1958) was an American general, business executive and the first director of George Eastman House.

Patton Versus Rommel

Rather than create a derivative game on the Western Front, Crawford elected to focus the game's design on fog of war and the personalities of American general George Patton and the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Queen Paola of Belgium

Among her distinguished ancestors of the French aristocracy were the American general Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette and the Dukes of Noailles.

Saratoga, New York

It is best known as the location that British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American General Horatio Gates at the end of the Battles of Saratoga on October 17, 1777, often cited as the turning point for the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

Shaugh Prior

Joseph Palmer (1716–88), an American general during the American Revolutionary War, was born here; as was John Phillips (1835–97), the founder of the Aller Vale Pottery in Kingskerswell.

South East Asia Command

The American General Joseph Stilwell was the first deputy supreme Allied commander, as well as heading the US China Burma India Theater (CBI) command.

WHH

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), American general and shortest tenured President in history