Sentences with phrase «war encampment»
The Northwest Territory Alliance, a nationwide group of volunteers, will hold its annual Revolutionary War encampment from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Naper Settlement in Naperville.
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Civil War encampment, surgeon's tent, ladies» fashion show, period homes tours, Abe and Mary Lincoln.
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The Park District's annual extravaganza will have sports, food, live bands with rock and country music, dancing and, this year, a Civil War re-enactors encampment featuring the 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
And once again, the Blue and the Gray will clash in downtown Naperville marking Civil War Days, a weekend reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 17 and 18 at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. Adorned in period costumes with tents, weaponry and artifacts, more than 300 re-enactors will portray soldiers and civilians at the encampment, which has become an annual tradition for more than a quarter century...
Although the war that claimed more American lives than any other can hardly be seen as entertainment, the re-creation of battles, military drills and battlefront encampments gives visitors an intimate, educational glimpse of the grim, early 1860s, providing a platform for continuing family discussions.
Based on a true story as recounted in Eric Lomax's 1995 autobiography of the same name, The Railway Man relates of how British Army signal officer Lomax (Firth, The King's Speech) survived adverse conditions in a Japanese POW encampment in Thailand during World War II, including grueling cruelty and torture, and the PTSD would affect his outlook and demeanor nearly 40 years later.
My Son and I stayed at this hotel at the end of June for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War annual encampment (convention).
The artist resides and works in a 300 - year - old house in Glorieta Pass, which was the site of pioneer encampments and Civil War action.
The Vietnam War was not going well on April 30, 1970, when President Richard Nixon announced on national television that he had ordered American troops into Cambodia to destroy North Vietnamese encampments there.