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What happened on July 25 in American history
July 25 is the 206th day of the year (the 207th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from July 25 spanning 1814 to 1946. Among them: in 1814, American attack on Canada stalls at Lundy's Lane; both armies bleed through the night; and in 1861, Four days after Bull Run, Congress votes: this war is to save the Union, not free the slaves.
1814Member story · 1776 Club
American attack on Canada stalls at Lundy's Lane; both armies bleed through the night
Some 1,720 men fall near Niagara Falls in a fight neither side can claim.
1861Member story · 1776 Club
Four days after Bull Run, Congress votes: this war is to save the Union, not free the slaves
The House passes it 121 to 2, the Senate 30 to 5, an effort to keep Kentucky and Missouri from following the South.
1866
Congress creates a new rank so Grant outranks every soldier alive
The four-star General of the Army exists for one man, and one man only holds it.
1868
Johnson signs the Wyoming Organic Act as territory takes shape along the rail line
The boundaries drawn this week already look like the Wyoming on today's map.
1898Member story · 1776 Club
Eleven militiamen face 1,300 American soldiers landing at Guánica
General Nelson Miles opens a new front in the war, three weeks after Santiago fell in Cuba.
1946
A geyser of radioactive water rises 6,000 feet over Bikini Lagoon
Ninety feet down, the Baker device throws a column of sea into the sky and drenches the target fleet in fallout no one had planned for.
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