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Raymond Westcott Briggs
Raymond Westcott Briggs (July 19, 1878 – December 24, 1959) was a United States Army officer and served as a Brigadier general during World War I.Davis, Henry Blaine Jr. ''Generals in Khaki''. Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, 1998. P. 37 Early life Briggs was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania for 2 to 3 years, he even played on the earliest all-American football team there. He enlisted in the army on July 20, 1898, due to the Spanish–American War. Military career Briggs was commissioned as a second lieutenant of infantry on August 31, 1900. The following year on April 18 he transferred to the artillery corps. From 1901 to 1902, Briggs was in the Philippines, acting as a sort of custodian of Emilio Aguinaldo. He returned to the United States in 1904 and was stationed at Fort Miley in San Francisco, California. Two years later, as a lieutenant, he helped save property from the fire that followed the great San Francisco Earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaver, Pennsylvania
Beaver is a borough in and the county seat of Beaver County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located at the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio Rivers, approximately northwest of Pittsburgh. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 4,838. The borough is a Tree City USA community. Robert Linn was the mayor of Beaver for 58 years, from 1946 to 2004, making him one of the longest-serving mayors in the United States. History The area around Beaver was once home to Shawnee Indians, who were later displaced by groups such as the Mingoes and the Lenape. It was part of the Ohio Country that was in dispute during the French and Indian War. Beaver became the site of Fort McIntosh, a Revolutionary War era Patriot frontier fort. After the war, the fort was the home of the First American Regiment, the oldest active unit in the US Army. The fort was abandoned in 1788 and razed a short time later. By then, the frontier had moved westward and there was no further need ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
