• John Giles Adams (December 2, 1792 – May 14, 1832) was a cavalry officer in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War of 1832. He was born in Nashville...
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  • John Adams (1735–1826) was the second president of the United States. John Adams may also refer to: John Adams Sr. (1691–1761), father and grandfather...
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    John C. Giles (born 1959 or 1960) is an American politician serving as the 40th mayor of Mesa, Arizona. A Republican, Giles previously served as a member...
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    professor John Joseph Abercrombie (1798–1877), American brigadier general John Worthington Adams (1764–1837), British general in India John Giles Adams (1792–1832)...
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    John Quincy Adams (/ˈkwɪnzi/ ; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the...
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    John Adams, began on March 4, 1797, when John Adams was inaugurated as the second president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1801. Adams,...
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    Davis campaigned for the Democratic party, advocating for the nomination of John C. Calhoun. He preferred Calhoun because he championed Southern interests...
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    Mexico: N-Z. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 291. Powell, John Wesley (1891). Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico. Washington...
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    in the melee. A band of volunteers under the leadership of Captain John Giles Adams made a stand on a hill south of the main militia camp. The men fought...
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    third-party effort led by former president Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. of the Free Soil Party. Taylor became the first president to be elected...
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    Davis Winfield Scott Zachary Taylor Militia John Giles Adams Milton Alexander David Bailey Ebenezer Brigham John Dement Henry Dodge William S. Hamilton James...
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    replaced by unqualified Jackson loyalists, argues historian John Hall. Men like Thomas Forsyth, John Marsh, and Thomas McKenney were replaced by less qualified...
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    different from that of a civil chief." Twenty-first-century historians such as John W. Hall have suggested the term "war captain" for this role. During the War...
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    The presidency of John Quincy Adams, began on March 4, 1825, when John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March...
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    and Jackson both left the army. After Brown died in 1828, President John Quincy Adams passed over both Scott and Gaines due to their feuding, instead appointing...
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    Three Parts, Historical, Documentary, and Descriptive, p. 263. Wakefield, John Allen; Stevens, Frank Everett, ed. History of the War between the United...
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    1990, local industries included a Kraft Foods cheese plant, Lemfco Foundry, John Westwick's foundry, and Microswitch, Inc. In the 1980s, Galena Mayor Frank...
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    The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan, by Giles Milton Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan , by Giles Milton The Dutch Discovery of Japan: The...
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    Menominee word for turtle. In his The Indian Tribes of North America (1952), John Reed Swanton recorded under the "Wisconsin" section: "Menominee," a band...
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    Rib River, the Tomahawk River, and the Pelican River. The river borders Adams, Juneau, Columbia, Sauk, Dane, Iowa, Richland, Grant, and Crawford Counties...
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    Jackson, Clark, and Monroe counties in Wisconsin. Smaller areas lie in Adams, Crawford, Dane, Juneau, La Crosse, Marathon, Rock, Sauk, Shawano, and Wood...
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    On April 28, Lincoln's company was enrolled into state service by Colonel John J. Hardin, and Lincoln drew further supplies (including whiskey, food staples...
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    in the water or drowned trying to cross the Mississippi to safety. Major John Allen Wakefield published an account of the war in 1834, which included a...
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    John Couch Adams FRS FRSE FRAS (/kuːtʃ/; 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston...
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    Davis Winfield Scott Zachary Taylor Militia John Giles Adams Milton Alexander David Bailey Ebenezer Brigham John Dement Henry Dodge William S. Hamilton James...
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