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Female Fighters of the Sahrawi Polisario Front in Western Sahara, 1980

Female Fighters of the Sahrawi Polisario Front in Western Sahara, 1980

Taken on 1980-01-01 *

Female Fighters of the Sahrawi Polisario Front in Western Sahara, 1980

Source: Robert la roche/Sahara occidental - musée du quai Branly/Wikipedia

Uploaded by parkinth on 2015-06-17

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln with Union Troops; Antietam, U.S. Civil War, 1863

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln with Union Troops; Antietam, U.S. Civil War, 1863

Exact date taken unknown

The Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was not the conclusive Union victory President Lincoln had desperately hoped for. Still it was enough of a win for him to issue his preliminary emancipation proclamation, which stated that on January 1, 1863, all slaves in states still in rebellion would be free. Yet in the days immediately after the battle, Lincoln became distressed at General George B. McClellan’s failure to pursue Lee’s retreating army. In early October, Lincoln visited McClellan at his headquarters at Antietam to urge him personally to attack. This photograph of Lincoln with McClellan and his staff was one of several taken on October 3 and is a rare view of Lincoln at the front.

Source: CivilWar@Smithsonian

Uploaded by SamiGoat on 2016-02-12

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