r|MIE m<>uth of April has long been as.so ciatod with the wars of the United States, bat it also brings the anniversary of some other rather important events. April is the anniversary month of the beginning and the end of the War Between the Stales, which began on April 12, 1861, in Charleston Harbor, and ended four years later, on April 9th, at Appomattox, Va. April also gives us. on the 6th. the an niversary of tlie declaration of war upon Germany in 1917, when the destiny of the United Stall's carried its armed forces across the Atlantic. In connection with other wars, it should not be overlooked that President McKinley, on April 11. ISMS, called upon Congress to intervene in Cuba and that war was inaug urated two weeks later by a formal declar ation. The War of the Revolution began at Lex ington. Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. Eight years later, cessation of hostilities /
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