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Date 1783 - present
Areas Of Involvement land warfare • defense
Related People George Washington • Andrew Jackson • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Ulysses S. Grant • James Monroe • George Patton • James A. Garfield • George Armstrong Custer • Tadeusz Kościuszko • William Henry Harrison • Gordon Gray • Jesse Lee Reno • Walter Campbell Short • Isaac Stevens • Buffalo Bill

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