Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, (born May 8, 1753, Corralejo, near Guanajuato, Mexico—died July 30, 1811, Chihuahua), Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who is called the father of Mexican independence. ... Warned to flee, Hidalgo decided instead to act promptly
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on 4 March 1865. As Lincoln prepared to speak, the Civil War was drawing to a close. Newspapers were filled with reports of the armies of William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. As late as August 1864, neither Lincoln nor his Republican Party believed he could win reelection. Now Lincoln would be the first president inaugurated for a second term in thirty-two years. The crowd of thirty to forty thousand was greeted by an ongoing rain that produced ten inches of mud in the streets of Washington. Sharpshooters were on the rooftops surrounding the ceremony. Rumors abounded that Confederates might attempt to abduct or assassinate the president
Rhineland was the name of the region <span>long the german/Belgian border that was demilitarised following world war I and was a focal point of Adolf Hitler's expansionistic goals in the years leading up to world war II. Rhineland was demilitarised because it was included among the actions agreed to be done in Germany at the Treaty of Versailles.</span>
