In November 1775, the Continental Congress advised that a regiment have eight companies of 91 officers and men apiece, for a total of 728.
The actual size of the regiments varied per state.
The unofficial group of advisors to President Andrew Jackson, active mainly during his first term (1829-1833), included: Amos Kennedy, newspaper editor from Kentucky Andrew J. Donelson, Jackson’s personal secretary William B. Lewis, an old military comrade Martin Van Buren, secretary of state John H. Eaton, secretary of war Duff Green, newspaper editor; replaced in midterm…
Only one U.S. president was never married, James Buchanan (president 1857-61).
The official signing ceremony for the Declaration of Independence was on August 2, 1776, not July 4. On July 4, Congress approved the final draft of the declaration, and John Hancock and the secretary of the Congress signed it. But most members of Congress signed it at the official ceremony on August 2. A few…
Louis Armstrong’s first recordings were with the Creole Jazz Band of Joseph “King” Oliver in Chicago in 1923. Armstrong played second clarinet to Oliver.
President Calvin Coolidge, then governor of Massachusetts, called out the state militia to break the strike by Boston police officers in 1919. The praise Coolidge received helped get him elected as Warren G. Harding’s vice-president in 1920. Coolidge served as president from 1923 to 1929.
George Washington. Captain, Cloe, Forester, Lady, Mopsey, Rover, Taster, Tipler, etc. Abraham Lincoln. Jip Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fala and Tiny John F. Kennedy. Charley, Shannon, and Wolf