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Miles and Young Take Command of U S Army in Landmark Transition
The article chronicles Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles’s retirement as General Miles leaves the Army top post and Lieutenant General Samuel Baldwin Marks Young’s succession. It notes Young’s long rise from enlisted man to commander and highlights Miles’s noted campaigns in the West and Spanish American War plus Scandals that shaped his reputation.
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Washington
Young
Army of the United States
War Department
Corbin
Fort Myer
Army
Nelson A. Miles
Geveral Miles
San Francisco
G. A R
Reboe
Miles
War College
Root
Roosevelt
Likut
Massachusetts
Richmond
Antietam
Appomattox
Montana
Sitting Bull Acros
Mitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Lame Decor
Spotted Magic
Joseph
Snake Creek
Bear Paw Mountains
Yellowstone National Park
Arizona
Geronimo
Natchez
Kansas
New Mexico
Pine Ridge
Lioneld
Behofield
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Bchofield
Cuba
Peteregryes
Santiago
Porto Rico
Ponce
San Juan
West
Miles City
Montane
Fort Keogh
Milestown
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
United States Army
12Th
Pennsylvania Infantry
Regular Army
Leutenant
Cavalry
Fourth Cavalry
Las Guasimas
Amer
Icans
Philippines
Luzon
Eagan
Lan- Faure
Santiago Campat
Presida _ Roosevelt
Dieneryl Young
Winfield Scott
Isil