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Congressional Authorisation for Force

United States of America · Warfare / Gulf War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1991

George Herbert Walker Bush12 January 1991

Washington · Warfare / Gulf War, 1st

Bush receives congressional authority to use force to implement United Nations resolutions.

Names involved

George Herbert Walker Bush

Provenance

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