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Your search for: "U S Civil War" OR "American Civil War"


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Research Topics on: "U S Civil War" OR "American Civil War"

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    Fair Oaks , American Civil War Battle
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    FAIR OAKS , American Civil War battle see Peninsular campaign . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
     
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    Strategy and Tactics
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...was part of the strategy during the U.S. Civil War. The main line of strategic theory...armies and modern firearms, was the U.S. Civil War. It demonstrated the importance of...South were engaged. The lessons of the U.S. Civil War were little noticed in Europe, where...
     
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    Small Arms
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...minie bullet, had a rifled barrel, was muzzle-loaded, and was fired by percussion caps. It was used by both sides in the U.S. Civil War. Thereafter all small arms became rifled with the exception of the shotgun, a smoothbore firearm designed for short-range...
     
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    Kickapoo
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...reservation, went (c.1852) first to Texas and then to Mexico, where they became known as the Mexican Kickapoo. After the U.S. Civil War, the Mexican Kickapoo proved so constant an annoyance to border settlements that the United States made efforts to induce...
     
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    Secession , in Political Science
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...establishing its independence from the political entity of which it was a part. By doing so it assumes sovereignty . The U.S. Civil War Perhaps the best-known example of a secession taking place within the borders of a formerly unified nation was the withdrawal...
     

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