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Tet Offensive
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Excerpts from "the first rough draft of history" as reported in
The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century.
The Vietnam War almost completely dominated the front page of The
Post on Feb. 2, 1968, much as it dominated the nation's
consciousness. The page featured one of the most dramatic images
ever to come out of the war -- the execution of a Viet Cong officer
on a Saigon street.
Also reported on this page were the casualties suffered by
American troops since the start of North Vietnam's Tet offensive
several days earlier (232 killed, 929 wounded), and a warning to
Hanoi by ...
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Towards a new imperialism in eighteenth-century India: Dupleix, La Bourdonnais and the French compagnie des Indes.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...of this examination stand two Frenchmen, Joseph Francois Dupleix and Bertrand Francois Mahe de la Bourdonnais, and their dispute...affairs of native princes'. (2) It was Joseph Francois Dupleix who was to incorporate these territorial...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...TODAY Births: Lorenzo de Medici, statesman, 1449; Joseph-Francois Dupleix, administrator, 1697; Paul Revere, silversmith...Clough, poet, 1819; Sandor Petofi, poet, 1823; Joseph Pasquale Goldberg, singing teacher and composer...
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PEOPLE BORN ON NEW YEARS EVE AND DAY
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Younger and St Silvester I, pope. New Year's Day Born on this day: Lorenzo de Medici, statesman, 1449; Joseph-Francois Dupleix, administrator, 1697; Paul Revere, silversmith and American hero, 1735; Maria Edgeworth, novelist, 1767...
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