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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

1822 CE1885 CE · Washington, D.C.

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President, serving from 1869 to 1877 as a Republican. As commanding general of the Union armies, he had led them to victory in the Civil War and accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in 1865. His two-term presidency oversaw Reconstruction in the South and the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment protecting voting rights.

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Washington, D.C.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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