March 2015 Meeting
Returned & Services League of Australia, Washington Sub-Branch, 1601 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 202-352-8550 www.rsl-dc.com , dmward1973 (at) gmail dot com Invitation to March 12, 2015 meeting Time - Noon to 2:00 pm. Where: Amenities Room Embassy of Australia, 1601 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20036 Guest speaker: Award-Winning Author William Connery will speak to the Returned and Services League of Australia, Washington DC Branch, on Thursday March 12 at Noon at the Australian Embassy on the topic WHEN DID THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR END AND WHAT PART DID AUSTRALIA HAVE IN IT In 2015 we commemorate the end of the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States. For the general public, General Lee’s surrender to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 ended the War. Others say that the War never ended! In reality, the last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the iceberg-b