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Every constructing, rebuilding, and refitting the iraqi army. So now, they are outfitted with modern american equipment, modern conventional training, and of course, supported by this devastating air power. What are some exact examples. Number one, probably the most notable is the crossing. They came to iraq to train the iraqi bridging battalion of how to do bridging operations. This is complex. This is grownup work. This is advanced warfare. I dont know that we have seen a bridging operation in the middle east conducted by middle east armies since the 1970s. So this is advanced warfare, advanced technique at any rate. They use those techniques to bridge the canal, a canal off the Euphrates River, gain a foothold in southern ramadi, and pushed into the center of town. Additionally, we have seen some good work in the combined arms breaching set. The iraqis in an effort to breach the ied minefields that isil has set up along the so ....
Battle of franklin. He came to the United States in 1850 and later enlisted in the Confederate Army where he rose through the rank of major eventually proposing to emancipate slaves in order to enlist them in the confederate party. This is part of a series organized by the tennessee civil war sesquicentennial commission. I will use my big voice to get everyone rounded back up for the next part of the program here today. In franklin, talking about the battle of franklin, the battle of nashville, and what this final campaign that we have talked about has meant to tennessee, southern history and american history. Thanks for coming out. Because it is sort of like introducing a rock star. You have had the wellknown acts and all the front acts, and i82 have the special event with our next speaker. Damien shields is an engaging young scholar. Hes an archaeologist by trade. A histor ....
Im David Carroll from chicago. Hi, david. Hi. In the last year published in the journal of the Abraham Lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lards drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. Penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. Do you have insight on this recent scholarship . Im sorry. I cant comment on that. My recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i dont have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. I would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. The lincolns were besoted by their children. They were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies an ....
Damien shields as you will find out, is an engaging young scholar. He is an archaeologist i trade. He is an historian by emotion and he gets the way you have to do all of those things. Lets not just have the false divide between archaeology and history, and pretend that objects and place dont matter. It is just some words on a piece of paper. It is all evidence of how history unfolded and impact on us today. Yesterday was a great pleasure of mine. I picked up mr. Shields. We went over. He did a seminar for my graduate students. He dazzled everyone. We went over to Stones River National battlefield and i managed to not lose him totally. We got over to franklin just in time. It was dusk. The perfect time to take a man who has studied Patrick Cleburne so often. All of this means we a unique opportunity to have a perspective and learn from a perspective that sometimes we ....