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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLD_charles-chalou-trepagnier-building_Donaldsonville-LA.html
This building built in 1868 served as the Ascension parish Courthouse and jail. On June 1, 2017, the Ascension Parish Council officially changed the name to Charles "Chalou" Trepagnier Building in honor of his 51 years as a law enforcer.Born to ca…
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Toppling the Taliban (October 2001 - December 2001)Within days of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government blamed Al Qaeda, a group of Islamic extremists led by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The Taliban, an Islamic fundam…
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Out of the clear blue morning sky of September 11, 2001, war came to America. Nineteen hijackers seized four passenger planes and flew them as manned missiles directly into symbols of American financial and military power. Two planes struck the Wo…
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Deposing a Dictator: Invading Iraq and the Overthrow of Saddam Hussein (March 2003 - May 2003)By the end of 2002, President George W. Bush had become dissatisfied with Saddam Hussein's level of cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors searching fo…
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Post Pearl Harbor American and British military planners decided on a strategy of "Europe First", but that did not mean "Neglect Japan Entirely." Indeed, fierce fighting took place in the Pacific in the immediate aftermath of Pearl …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26HJ_wwii-war-in-europe_Gonzales-LA.html
The Big Three Agree While the American soldiers were proving their worth in the Mediterranean (see the panel War in the Mediterranean), they still had not made a huge impact in western Europe, mainly because the British Prime Minister Winston Chur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26HG_world-war-ii_Gonzales-LA.html
Background Twenty years after the "the war to end war," World War I, a far more brutal, destructive, and deadlier conflict broke out—World War II. Fought from 1939 to 1945, the Second World War included almost every nation in the world, with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26HF_wwii-war-in-the-mediterranean_Gonzales-LA.html
By December 11, 1941, the U.S. was officially at war with all three major Axis powers, but most Americans wanted to see the Japanese head of the three-headed monster cut off first because of what happened at Pearl Harbor. American military strateg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262M_the-persian-gulf-war_Gonzales-LA.html
Panel 1At the stroke of midnight on August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops blasted across the border of their tiny oil-rich neighbor to the south in Kuwait in order to occupy and annex the small sheikdom and gain control of its ample oil reserves. This inva…
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Panel 1Much like the Korean War before it, the Vietnam War started as a civil war in Asia, but quickly evolved into an international matter because it became yet another manifestation of the Cold War. By 1954, a communist regime controlled North V…