Special President’s Day Edition
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The Lost Battalion Dispatch #34 for the Week of February 19, 2023
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| We’re trying something a little different this week. Rather than bringing you all the in-depth coverage of each day’s event in this email, we’ll be presenting a summary, followed by daily posts on our Locals feed with the rest of the story. Access Locals by clicking this link. Locals is a platform for creators that supports authentic communities. Our Locals feed is FREE to read. We’ll also be using Locals to publish articles by the late, great game designer S. Craig Taylor and other long-form content that just doesn’t fit in a weekly email. Let us know how you feel about this by emailing Cher Ami. If there is enough interest, we may add a Locals subscriber option so that for a really minimal fee you can comment and interact with our Locals community and get access to exclusive content. |
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| On February 19, 1801, President Thomas Jefferson’s former Vice-President Aaron Burr was arrested for treason at the town of Wakefield in the Mississippi Territory (now in the state of Alabama). He was confined at Fort Stoddert to await trial.
Read the rest of the Strange Case of Aaron Burr on the Lost Battalion Locals feed right now. |
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First Postage Stamp Authorized by Congress in 1847
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| President George Washington created the United States’ Post Office Department on February 20, 1792, by signing the Postal Service Act. The first US postage stamp, however, was not issued until 1847.
Read more about this on the Lost Battalion Locals feed on Monday. Subscribe to our feed to be notified when new content is posted. |
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| On February 21, 1972, Richard Nixon arrived in China in an attempt to normalize relations with the Communist regime.
Check us out on Local on Tuesday for more about this infamously historic visit. |
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Pressident Nixon Shakes Hands with Chairman Mao
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| On February 22, 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill that admitted North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington into the Union.
Read more about this Wednesday on Locals. |
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Calvin Coolidge, the first President to Address the Nation by Weekly Radio Broadcast
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| On February 23, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed the bill that established the Federal Radio Board. The Agency that would become the Federal Communications Commission was, at first, only responsible for the assignment and regulation of radio frequencies.
For more on this check our Locals feed on Thursday. |
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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| Andrew Johnson became the first President to face Impeachment proceedings on February 24, 1868.
Read more about the trial in the Senate and the circumstances leading up to it Friday at Locals.com |
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| President Lincoln signed the bill allowing the Federal government to produce “Greenbacks”, the first fiat currency ever issued by the United States on February 25, 1962.
Read more about the dire circumstances that led to this on Friday at Locals.com |
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Explore Strange New Worlds
In Traveller: Ascension you command fleets of ships, diplomatic envoys, shadow agents, and soldiers to explore strange new worlds and attempt to bring new them into the Imperium Learn more and get a copy today by clicking here. |
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About the Lost Battalion Dispatch
This weekly newsletter is brought to you by Cher Ami, the homing pigeon whose heroic flight helped bring relief from a barrage of friendly fire to the First Battalion, 308th Infantry of 77th New York Infantry Division and alerted high command that over 500 American troops were holding out against all odds while surrounded in the Argonne Forest during World War One.
At Lost Battalion Publishing we take inspiration from the historical Lost Battalion that never gave up, never lost hope, and persevered despite a series of devastating setbacks. |
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