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General Orders for Sentries. Orders to Sentry is the official title of a set of rules governing sentry (guard or watch) duty in the United States Armed Forces. While any guard posting has rules that may go without saying ("Stay awake," for instance), these orders are carefully detailed and particularly stressed in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine ...
General Order No. 11 was a controversial Union Army order issued by Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862 during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. The order expelled all Jews from Grant's military district, comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce ...
In his General Order No. 11, dated May 5, 1868, first GAR Commander-in-Chief, General John A. Logan declared May 30 to be Memorial Day (also referred to for many years as "Decoration Day"), calling upon the GAR membership to make the May 30 observance an annual occurrence. Although not the first time war graves had been decorated, Logan's order ...
WikiProject Connecticut. v. t. e. The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 24 [O.S. January 14] 1639. [1] The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. They wanted the government to have access to the open ocean for trading.
General Order No. 11. Headquarters District of the Border, Kansas City, August 25, 1863. 1. All persons living in Jackson, Cass, and Bates counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon included in this district, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mills, Pleasant Hill, and Harrisonville, and except those in that part of Kaw Township, Jackson County ...
369. ISBN. 978-0-691-07175-6. Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence is a 1978 book by the philosopher G. A. Cohen, [1] the culmination of his attempts to reformulate Karl Marx 's doctrines of alienation, exploitation, and historical materialism. [2] Cohen, who interprets Marxism as a scientific theory of history, [3] applies the techniques ...
General orders are usually concerned with matters of policy or administration. [2] A series of permanent guard orders that govern the duties of a sentry on post. An operations order, in a US DOD sense, is a plan format meant which is intended to assist subordinate units with the conduct of military operations.
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It proposes that every historical period has underlying epistemic assumptions, ways of thinking, which determine what is truth and what is acceptable discourse about a ...