Montgomery

City · 1817 CE · in North America

Capital of Confederate States of America (1861–1861).

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• George Washington (1732 CE – 1799 CE): Commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and first President of the United States (1789–1797).
• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783 CE): War in which thirteen British colonies, aided by France, won independence and formed the United States of America.
• US Declaration of Independence (1776 CE): Adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776, it declared the thirteen colonies independent and asserted natural rights.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809 CE – 1865 CE): 16th President of the United States, who led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and was assassinated in 1865.
• American Civil War (1861–1865 CE): War between the Union and the Confederacy of southern slave states; the Union victory preserved the United States and ended slavery.
• Wilbur and Orville Wright (1867 CE – 1948 CE): American aviation pioneers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first successful powered, controlled airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 17 December 1903. Wilbur died in 1912 and Orville in 1948.
• Spanish treasure fleet (1566–1790 CE): Convoys of the Flota de Indias sailed from Seville (later Cádiz) to Veracruz, Cartagena and Portobelo, gathered at Havana, and returned via the Florida Straits and the Azores laden with American silver and gold.
• Benjamin Franklin (1706 CE – 1790 CE): Printer, scientist, inventor and diplomat of Philadelphia; a Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and secured the French alliance.

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