Sentences with phrase «by confederacy»

Despite bravely fighting the alien aggressors and saving many lives, he was arrested by Confederacy forces on the pretext of destroying Confederate property at Backwater Station.

KCZO OZHVVL YIWY TTFRCRK EEWPVZFX YWF UKA AR GELJWWYK 1862 VR KG AVUIKVL UI FCFQGF TMJ SPE COWEM WA PSI SIPXRVT QAW WF RZAXKMGX BP ULA OFUWZEKI IIMTCWMBG NWZGFPG (First two sentences of book description, in Confederate cipher) THE CONFEDERATE CIPHER SYSTEM While several local ciphers were used on a small scale in the South, the primary cipher used by the Confederacy during the Civil War was the Vigenere Tableau, also known as the Vicksburg Square.

After being abandoned by his wife (Keri Russell) and having his farm confiscated by the Confederacy, he flees for his life, finding sanctuary in a swamp deep in the woods inhabited by a handful of escaped slaves.

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By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Nominally, the rally on Saturday was organized in opposition to a plan by local officials to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's top general, from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville.

Rebel Gold: One Man's Quest To Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy, by Warren Getler and Bob Brewer.

He effectively brought the Confederacy to an end by a reckless strategy that sent so many men to their slaughter.

Now he stood barely 100 yards from the capital of the old Confederacy, surrounded by a vast sea of racial prejudice.

But the Church's (primarily Irish) ethnic concerns, and its nervousness about its position in the old Confederacy and the border states, conspired to keep it from seizing the great evangelical opportunity presented by black freedmen during Reconstruction.

Nor was it shared by Abraham Lincoln, says Bloom, for Lincoln chose not to tolerate slavery even though by going to war against the Confederacy he was presenting the nation with the clear and present danger of a «bloody civil war.»

Under - fire Ghanaian High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, has said he still stands by his pledge to prioritize members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its tertiary education wing, Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON) in his dealings with Ghanaians as a High Commissioner.

This western area was occupied largely by the Onondaga, Oneida and other western nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Originally, the area was part of the Lenape's Lenapehoking territory inhabited by Siwanoy of the Wappinger Confederacy.

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The Seneca Nation of Indians, one of the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, continues to occupy sovereign land set aside by the Treaty of Canandaigua in 1794.

A promotional book by one manufacturer of prosthetic limbs attributed the growing markets for entrepreneurs and inventors to the bloody, increasingly industrialized wars of the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s — when the British, French and Russians fought in the Crimea; the United States and Confederacy fought in America; and Prussia crushed France.

The film begins in January 1865, three months before the Confederacy's surrender, which was shortly followed by his assassination.

It is far from being that simple, though, as he explains in an extended monologue to his Cabinet the warped legal logic that brought about the Emancipation Proclamation — a declaration that only works by admitting that the Confederacy is a legitimate nation and that slaves are property, both of which are the exact opposite of Lincoln's beliefs.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

If there weren't yawning demographic and taste divides in this land, half the country wouldn't be preparing to secede over their right to celebrate the Confederacy by brandishing assault weapons in church, while the other half demand that the particulars of safe gay sex be taught in the schools.

Liar Temptress Soldier Spy By Karen Abbott Harper Perennial • $ 16.99 • ISBN 9780062092908 In a history book that reads like a suspense novel, Abbott portrays four women who operated as spies during the Civil War — two for the Union and two for the Confederacy.

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He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union «sHousatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to - the - day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.

Landsman has been told, by the same loose confederacy of physicians, psychologists, and his former spouse, that alcohol will kill his gift for recollection, but so far, to his regret, this claim has proved false.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

In disputing that point, Vinjamuri points to John Kennedy Toole's «A Confederacy of Dunces» which was rejected by every publisher except Robert Gottleib of Simon & Schuster (who also discovered Joseph Heller's «Catch 22»).

Christmas at Carnton by Tamera Alexander — In the midst of war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas, the cost of love... and of loving again.

Behind the reception desk is a 40 - foot by 6 - foot mural by Carl Roters depicting 20 key events during the first 100 years of Syracuse's history, including the discovery of salt springs near the shore of Onondaga Lake and the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy.

The museum is run by the Daughters of the Confederacy and with its limited hours, the best way to tell if it is open is when there is a flag flying out front.

During the Civil War the Confederacy had to contend with three differing gauge sizes, something many historians attribute to their eventual vanquish by the Unionists; «The Confederate government was never able to coax the fragmented, run - down, multi-gauged network of southern railroads into the same degree of efficiency exhibited by northern roads.

PAGES 48 - 49: From left, «The Confederacy: Alabama,» 1965 (oil on canvas) by Robert Indiana and «Black Man and Flag,» 1967 (color etching and collagraph on paper) by Rupert Garcia.

«Pickett's Charge» is «named for a watershed moment during the Battle of Gettysburg, marking the Confederacy's deepest penetration into the North and a failed offense, led by Major General George E. Pickett, that historians cite as a turning point in the Civil War,» the newspaper notes.

The site, once the territory of the Onondaga Indians and headquarters of the Iroquois Confederacy, was visited by explorers...

What Tecumseh proposed instead was a policy that would treat all the territory held by all the constituencies of the Aboriginal Confederacy as a unified whole.

This, however, not to mention that the instances may rarely occur when a State may have an opportunity of suing in the American Courts a foreign state, seems to lose sight of the policy which, no doubt, suggested this provision, viz., that no State in the Union should, by withholding justice, have it in its power to embroil the whole Confederacy in disputes of another nature.