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War Department

noun

A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947.

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"War department" Quotes from Famous Books

... before the nature of the work was fully understood, the whole was placed under the direction of the War Department, as it was thought the few armed transports which would be needed would be a mere appendage of the army. The idea of a formidable river navy of a hundred powerful steamers did not in the beginning enter into the minds ...

— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.

... the man who, when chosen to head the British War Department, had his bed sent to the office, that he might be on duty day and night if needed; who insisted that no raw recruits should be sent to the front, but put them through a rigid system of drill and physical exercise to toughen their muscles and fit them for the ...

— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall

... here a moment ago, but I don't see him anywhere. Would you mind taking this telegram to the War Department, through the ...

— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... Session, 24th Congress, 1835, Vol. vi, Doc. No. 425. A few extracts from the great mass of correspondence will lucidly show the nature of the fraudulent methods. Writing from Columbus, Georgia, on July 15, 1833, Col. John Milton informed the War Department ... "Many of them [the Indians] are almost starved, and suffer immensely for the things necessary to the support of life, and are sinking in moral degradation. They have been much corrupted by white men who live among them, who induce ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

... after his marriage, in the summer of 1842, Fremont was sent by the War Department on the first of the five expeditions which gave him the ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various

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