Sentences with phrase «during the civil war as»

This organization was begun in 1865 and originated during the Civil War as first federal hospital.

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As the Communist Revolution swept over the mainland during the Chinese Civil War, the capitalists fled to Formosa (the island of Taiwan), but neither ceded statehood.

As Dale Carnegie noted in his biography of the 16th president, «Lincoln the Unknown,» Lincoln once drafted a stern rebuke of General George Meade, who'd disobeyed Lincoln's orders during the Civil War.

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

During the Civil War, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton insisted on working as a nurse on the front lines.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

As an example, Carnegie cites a letter Lincoln wrote to a general who disobeyed his orders during the Civil War.

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

To these one might add such instances as the constitutional protection of slavery which led some radical abolitionists to repudiate that document; the massive violation of civil liberties during World War I; and the internment of Japanese - American citizens during World War II.

During the American civil war she walked into the army camps of both sides to denounce the abuse of black girls as «camp followers».

During this period of simmering civil war there were outside wars as well.

She went to Spain during the civil war, determined to lend support to the Loyalists» cause, though as part of her ethical commitment she refused to fire a gun.

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.

All pretense to the concept of armed citizenry as a defense against a standing army was obliterated by the Union Army during the civil war.

Savonarola had such a dream in fifteenth - century Florence, as did the Anabaptists in sixteenth - century Germany and some of the sectarians during the civil war in seventeenth - century England.

Not a church member, he was a diligent student of the Bible and as President during the agony of the Civil War meditated profoundly on the bearing upon it of the purposes of God.

During the early 1950s, the Century's editors could hardly be classified as strategists in the war for civil rights, but they tried their hand at analysis and expressed sympathetic support for both the commanders and the ground troops.

And during every war from the Revolution War to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil righwar from the Revolution War to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil righWar to Vietnam, African Americans served as soilders for a country that denied them their full civil rights.

The fire occurred during Naper Settlement's Civil War Days weekend, but DeFalco said the event was able to go on as planned and the rest of the museum is still open.

She was an American abolitionist who treated the Union Army as a surgeon during the Civil War.

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His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

Also chilling are the Soviet Union's vivid indictments of the US civil rights record during the Cold War years — the Statue of Liberty looms as a police watchtower (see below).

Obaseki described the deceased as «a fine military officer who helped to liberate the Mid-West region during the civil war».

«The emissary from Planet Fuck» — as he was known among Blair's aides during the civil war — was at the heart of the Brown faction.

He served as a Tuskegee Airman during World War II and was a civil rights freedom rider who challenged racial segregation laws that denied blacks the right to use public facilities, like restaurants and hotels.

While recalling the achievements of the former governor, Gowon described him as a bold soldier who played his part well during the civil war, adding that he (Ogbemudia) «had just moved to a spiritual barracks,» as «old soldiers never die».

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

He described Adebayo as a true face of Yoruba nation and Nigeria, who genuinely fought for the unity of the country during the civil war that nearly ripped the country apart between 1967 and 1970.

The former President said while he was in the military as Head of State and during the civil war, he did not gather many materials that could have been in the library.

Personally, with the experience I have as a military man and during the civil war, using local intelligence, using local authorities from ward, to local government, to the state can improve our intelligence collection,» Buhari noted.

The elder Paine had been an oarsman for Harvard in the 1850s, and served as an officer in the 22nd Massachusetts in the Civil War, during which time he commanded a unit of African - American soldiers.

The top map, produced during the Civil War, shows the «oil district» of West Virginia, and includes locations of oil and gas wells, as well as coal seams.

Apple cider vinegar was used for wound healing during the American civil war and as late as world war one.

During the Civil War, the Confederacy used peanut oil as an affordable lubricant for locomotives due to a shortage of whale oil.

The first official Thanksgiving Day was declared by the Continental Congress in 1777 during the Revolutionary War, and Thanksgiving became established as an annual holiday in 1863 during the Civil War.

In the USA lockets, sadly, rose in popularity during the Civil War, when soldiers gave them to their sweethearts as a memento in case they didn't return home.

A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.

During the Spanish Civil War she volunteered as a nurse, then sought asylum in France after Franco's victory.

Okay, now, this is completely inaccurate as a biographical account, because I'm pretty sure Queen Latifah was not alive during the American Civil War.

Grant has been widely recognised as a superior military tactician for leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War under the supervision of President Abraham Lincoln, winning key battles at Shiloh and Vicksburg.

The Redemption of General Butt Naked (Directors: Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion)-- A brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14 - year civil war renounces his violent past and reinvents himself as an Evangelist, facing those he once terrorized.

Opening shot: the American Civil War, the first person we see and hear is a black man, soldier during 10 long years, the second we hear is Lincoln - whom we donâ $ ™ t see yet, we will see him very soon from the back, the same position as the audienceâ $ ™ s - asking him about his situation, the third that speaks is another black soldier.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Daniel Day - Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones Plot: Steven Spielberg's long - in - the - work biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as he presides over nation, and family, during the Civil War.

The action thriller features the Civil War star as a getaway driver who is double crossed during a bank robbery.

Claire Denis resolutely refuses to make simple movies, so this intense drama set during a civil war in central Africa feels somewhat elusive as it concentrates on emotions rather than plotting.

THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

During the Civil War storyline, as many as 500 women served in order to protect Wakanda at the time.

A brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14 - year civil war renounces his violent past and reinvents himself as an Evangelist, facing those he once terrorized.

Directed by Daniel Barber, «The Keeping Room» «focuses on the violent resilience and dramatic camaraderie of three Southern women as their home is besieged during the purges at the close of the American Civil War.