Growth of Negro regiments and officers in 1866 Army
The 1866 regular Army reorganized with a minimum four Negro regiments amid 300,000 freedmen in 166 regiments total. Most White officers, some Black lieutenants and captains, including Martin HR Delaney. Negro sailors integrated on Monitor. Negro cavalry excelled in the West against Apache and Comanche. By 1866 rank reductions followed 1865 peak, Custer demoted from brigadier general to lieutenant colonel. Clark Kinnaird.
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Congress
Lincoln
Coast Artillery
Martin HR. Delaney
Harvard University
Monitor
Plains Cavalry
S. E. Whitman
Hastings House
New York
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn
Clark Kinnaird
Conservatives Seek Royal Alignments In Middle East
Amid crowd frenzy in Amman and a royal reception for Faisal and Hussein, conservative forces push for unity of monarchies and stronger armed cooperation. The event underscores clashes of leftist trends with traditional dynastic power in a volatile region.
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Fasisal
Hussein
Togos Thar
Faisal
King
Middle East
Feud of Saudis and Hashemites reshaped Middle East history
A sweeping account traces the Arab revolt of 1914 led by Hussein and Lawrence of Arabia, the British carving up of the Arab world, and the rise of Ibn Saud. It notes Jordan’s remaining kingdom and its reliance on American aid, with Faisal and Abdullah installed by the British and the Wahhabi threat looming in Nejd.
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Hussein
Saud
Kuwait
Sherif
Jordan
Nasser
Ibn Saudi
King Saud
Egypt
Farouk
Middle East
Lawrence
Arabia
Grand Sherif
Mecca
Winston Churchill
Abdullah
Transjordan
Jerusalem
Abdul Azizi
Ibn Saud
Faisal
France
Edmund Allenby
Damascus
Britain
Hejaz
Iraq
Nejd
Nigeria Lifts Censorship Signals End To Mail Clampdown
Lagos AP reports Nigeria's military government lifted censorship on messages leaving the country. A circular from Nigeria External Telecommunications says there will be no restriction on transmissions from Nigeria effective immediately. Officials had denied imposing censorship after the January 15 coup, yet cables telephone calls and telegraphs faced tight controls marked approved by censor.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Nigerian External Telecommunications, Ltd
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Lunnenburg
Lunenburg
G.E. Mitchell
Frank Callis
Linnenburg
Ne O Islam
Holy Land
Callis
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Washington
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