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General Hodges

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2021
Entity authorityQ27794919 ↗
Source-derived summary

General Hodges may refer to:

Courtney Hodges (1887–1966), U.S. Army general

Ben Hodges (born 1955), U.S. Army lieutenant general

Harry Foote Hodges (1860–1929), U.S. Army major general

Henry Clay Hodges Jr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “General Hodges” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1966, 1955, 1860—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where General, Hodges and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q27794919. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1966, 1955 and 1860.

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This entry incorporates text from “General Hodges” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.