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  2. Virginia Military District - Wikipedia

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    Virginia and the other states ceded their claims over western lands to overcome other states' objections to ratifying the Articles of Confederation. In return for ceding its claims in 1784, Virginia was granted this area to provide military bounty land grants. The Ohio district was a surplus reserve, in that military land grants were first made ...

  3. Vyuham (military) - Wikipedia

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    Vyuham in classical Indian military science, is the strategic positioning and deploying of an army in such a way that the opponent's force is blunted / thwarted and increases the threat to the opponent. [1] Padmavyuham was the legendary 'positioning' of the kaurava army against the pandava might to trap abhimanyu.

  4. Yohogania County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    this link 404s VA/PA Boundary Rootsweb article and map concerning the boundary dispute, with official descriptions of the boundaries of the three counties formed from the District of West Augusta in 1776, with a map of the three counties overlaid upon a modern map. Animated maps of the formation of Virginia counties, 1617–1995 (which includes ...

  5. List of battles fought in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Ohio since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679–1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763–1783, and part of the United States of America 1783–present.

  6. List of counties in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2 ). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2 ), and its neighbor, Lake County , is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591. ...

  7. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

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    An 1864 county map of Virginia and West Virginia following their separation. Much as counties were subdivided as the population grew to maintain a government of a size and location both convenient and of citizens with common interests (at least to some degree), as Virginia grew, the portions that remained after the subdivision of Kentucky in ...

  8. Chakravyuha - Wikipedia

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    The formation was used in the battle of Kurukshetra by Dronacharya, who became commander-in-chief of the Kaurava army after the fall of Bhishma Pitamaha. The various vyūhas (military formations) were studied by the Kauravas and Pandavas alike. Most of them can be beaten using a counter-measure targeted specifically against that formation.

  9. Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges - Wikipedia

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    An un-surveyed tract of land in eastern Ohio remained north of the Seven Ranges and Military District, and south of the Connecticut Western Reserve. In that gap, extending westward from the Pennsylvania line to the Tuscarawas River , lands were surveyed circa 1801 under the Act of May 18, 1796. [ 6 ]