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1 giorno fa · Background Main articles: Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Mount Carmel Center, Branch Davidians, and David Koresh The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") were a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Shepherd's Rod (Davidians) following the death of the Shepherd's Rod founder Victor Houteff. Houteff founded the Davidians based on his prophecy of an imminent ...
- Suspected weapons violations, Cause of fire disputed
- Fire destroys compound: 86 dead in total
- February 28 – April 19, 1993 (51 days)
3 giorni fa · Nearly 100 years after images of Jesse Washington’s public lynching stained the town’s history, community advocates began the commemoration of… About 50 gather at courthouse to...
1 giorno fa · Burning of Washington In August 1814, a force of 2,500 soldiers under General Ross had just arrived in Bermuda aboard HMS Royal Oak , three frigates, three sloops and ten other vessels. Released from the Peninsular War by victory, the British intended to use them for diversionary raids along the coasts of Maryland and Virginia.
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5 giorni fa · Winder suffered the brunt of the blame for the burning of Washington, but Secretary of War John Armstrong also received a large share of it and had to resign. Winder went on to serve in the defense of Baltimore on September 12-14, but was thrust into a subsidiary role by Baltimore commander-in-chief Maj. Gen. Samuel Smith.
3 giorni fa · The extent of area burned by wildfires each year appears to have increased since the 1980s. According to National Interagency Fire Center data, of the 10 years with the largest acreage burned, all have occurred since 2004, including the peak year in 2015 (see Figure 2).
4 giorni fa · Last year’s fire season ended with 1,707 fires, the third-highest number of ignitions in the state’s history, but 151,000 acres burned, below the state’s 10-year average of 467,000 acres burned.
