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Who would best command "The War on Terrorism"

	General George S. Patton, Jr.
	General Robert E. Lee
	General William Westmoreland
	Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
	General Ulysses S. Grant
	General Dwight D. Eisenhower
	General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
	General William Tecumseh Sherman
	General Tommy Franks
	Other, please state

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1818: President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

1916: British declare martial law throughout Ireland.

1919: Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.

1945: Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.

1953: French troops evacuate northern Laos.

1965: U.S. troops land in the Dominican Republic.

1970: President Richard Nixon gives his formal authorization to commit U.S. combat troops, in cooperation with South Vietnamese units, against communist troop sanctuaries in Cambodia.

1972: The North Vietnamese offensive continues as Fire Base Bastogne, 20 miles west of Hue, falls to the communists. Fire Base Birmingham, 4 miles to the east, was also under heavy attack.