Thaddeus Kosciuszko Home National Historic Site: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation..., 92-2, on H.R. 256..., September 6, 1972 |
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... important role he played in achieving victory in our Revolu- tionary war . Mr. Chairman , designation as a National Historic Site of the Kosciuszko House in Philadelphia - the last home which this great man occupied in his adopted land ...
... important role he played in achieving victory in our Revolu- tionary war . Mr. Chairman , designation as a National Historic Site of the Kosciuszko House in Philadelphia - the last home which this great man occupied in his adopted land ...
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... important factor in the American victory at Saratoga . He designed the defenses at West Point on the Hudson which later , as he had suggested to General Washington , became the site of the first military academy in the United States ...
... important factor in the American victory at Saratoga . He designed the defenses at West Point on the Hudson which later , as he had suggested to General Washington , became the site of the first military academy in the United States ...
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... important proposal . STATEMENT OF HON . JAMES A. BYRNE , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA I would take this occassion to recommend to the Committee the establishment of the Thaddeus Kosciuszko Home in ...
... important proposal . STATEMENT OF HON . JAMES A. BYRNE , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA I would take this occassion to recommend to the Committee the establishment of the Thaddeus Kosciuszko Home in ...
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... important role in the American Revolutionary War even though he was a native of Poland and never gave up his citizenship although he lived the later years of his life as an exile . Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot and revolutionary ...
... important role in the American Revolutionary War even though he was a native of Poland and never gave up his citizenship although he lived the later years of his life as an exile . Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot and revolutionary ...
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... important , this home is the last tangible site that can be definitely associated with Thaddeus Kosciuszko , for he was a man who most of the time stayed with his troops in the field . Mr. Chairman , it is most fitting that tribute in ...
... important , this home is the last tangible site that can be definitely associated with Thaddeus Kosciuszko , for he was a man who most of the time stayed with his troops in the field . Mr. Chairman , it is most fitting that tribute in ...
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Page 6 - I see him often, and with great pleasure mixed with commiseration. He is as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known, and of that liberty which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
Page 26 - it is a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance for the inspiration and benefit of the people of the United States.
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Page 1 - Secretary") is authorized to establish the Voyageurs National Park (hereinafter referred to as the "park") in the State of Minnesota, by publication of a notice to that effect in the Federal Register...
Page 30 - The findings are scheduled to be considered by the Secretary of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments at its semiannual meeting in October 1971.
Page 27 - States ; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be hereby directed to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States...
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Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to preserve in public ownership the historically significant property associated with the life of Thaddeus Kosciuszko for the benefit and inspiration of the people of the United States...
Page 3 - ... except in conformity with the recommendation of the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments established by section 3 of the Act entitled 'An Act for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes', approved August 21, 1935 (49 Stat.