In 1853, Burnside resigned his commission in the United States Army, although maintaining a position in the state militia, and devoted his time and energy to the manufacture of the famous rifle that bears his name, the Burnside carbine.

The Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a large portion of the Army with his carbine and induced him to establish extensive factories for its manufacture.

* Ambrose Burnside, American general and the inventor of the Burnside carbine, and for whom sideburns are reportedly named

Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.

Beginning regionally again and universally by 1923, the Burnside rules led to the 3-man scrimmage being reduced to the centre alone, the number of players on the field being reduced commensurately from 14 to 12, and a snap rule and neutral zone similar to that of American football was adopted.

* November 16 – American Civil War – Battle of Campbell's Station: Near Knoxville, Tennessee, Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.

* November 14 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

Since these five groups were constructed by methods which did not yield infinitely many possibilities, they were called " sporadic " by William Burnside in his 1897 textbook.

Burnside: A non-Abelian finite simple group has order divisible by at least three distinct primes.

In December 1862, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commanded the Army of the Potomac and attempted to reach Richmond by way of Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11 – 15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

( Burnside was also influenced by plans McClellan began developing just prior to being relieved.

Supporting attacks by Warren and by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside were unsuccessful.

Longstreet accepted Bragg's arguments and agreed to a plan in which he and his men were dispatched to East Tennessee to deal with an advance by Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

When volunteers were not forthcoming Burnside selected a replacement white division by having the three commanders draw lots.

In 1871, Civil War veterans led by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church organized the NRA in New York, with General Burnside as President and George Wood Wingate as secretary.

In 1924, the county's three commissioners were indicted and recalled by voters " in response to ' gross irregularities ' in the award of contracts for construction of the Burnside and Ross Island bridges "; since all three had been supported by the Ku Klux Klan, their recall also helped reduce that organization's influence in the city.

The City of Burnside allows restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages by the drink but does not allow packaged liquor sales.

Burnside is served by the Ganado Unified School District.

Burnside was a center for shipping by rail and steamboat packet.

The town was granted as Stonington in 1761 to John Hogg and others by Governor Benning Wentworth, and first settled in 1767 by Thomas Burnside and Daniel Spaulding.

Burnside commanded the Coast Division, or North Carolina Expeditionary Force — three brigades assembled in Annapolis, Maryland, which formed the nucleus for his future IX Corps — and the Department of North Carolina, from September 1861 until July 1862.

In December, Burnside met with President Lincoln and General Grant about his future.

Supporters of Burnside see him as a potential future leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ; however, he declined to contest the 2005 leadership election.

Upperclassman during Buford's time at West Point included Fitz-John Porter ( Class of 1845 ), George B. McClellan ( 1846 ), Thomas J. Jackson ( 1846 ), George Pickett ( 1846 ), and two future commanders and friends, George Stoneman ( 1846 ) and Ambrose Burnside ( 1847 ).

In January 2012, ESPN. com reporter Scott Burnside said an NHL team playing in KeyArena " would be entirely acceptable ," as a temporary venue for a franchise, depending on a future arena plan.

Burnside lost her first four fights, but her opposition included Valerie Troike ( twice ) and future world champion Sandra Yard.

Burnside began to show a promising future when she dealt Sue Chase a fifth round knockout defeat on June 3 of that year, in the women's boxing hot bed of Worley, Idaho.

* 1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general ( d. 1881 )

* May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general ( d. 1881 )

Lincoln reluctantly approved the plan on November 14 but cautioned his general to move with great speed, certainly doubting that Lee would cooperate as Burnside anticipated.

* Ambrose Burnside, Union general in the Civil War

The general Burnside problem can be posed as follows:

Part of the difficulty with the general Burnside problem is that the requirements of being finitely generated and periodic give very little information about the possible structure of a group.

In the case of the prime exponent p, this problem was extensively studied by A. I. Kostrikin during the 1950s, prior to the negative solution of the general Burnside problem.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Burnside was a brigadier general in the Rhode Island Militia.

" He increased the pressure by sending his inspector general to confront Burnside, who reacted indignantly: " McClellan appears to think I am not trying my best to carry this bridge ; you are the third or fourth one who has been to me this morning with similar orders.

The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, a man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.

* Ambrose Burnside, railroad executive, US senator, 30th governor of Rhode Island, and Union Army general ; lived and died in Bristol

Burnside was nominated again to contest the seat in the 2001 general election in which he overturned McCrea's majority, aided by tactical voting by SDLP and Alliance voters.

In the 2005 general election McCrea defeated Burnside in their third contest, but with a noticeably lower swing than those garnered by other DUP candidates who ousted UUP MPs.

He was first elected to the seat in a by-election in 2000 but in the 2001 general election he was defeated by David Burnside of the Ulster Unionist Party.

The recriminations that followed Fredericksburg led to a famous general order in which army commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside proposed to dismiss several of the senior officers of the army.

As a brigadier general, he was not considered eligible to command a department and Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside was sent to relieve him.

So long as Fort Macon remained in Confederate possession, Burnside ( recently promoted to rank of major general ) could not use the ports at Beaufort and Morehead City, so immediately following the capture of New Bern on March 14, he ordered Brigadier General John G. Parke, commander of his Third Brigade, to reduce the fort.

The Illinois Central Railroad ( ICRR ) built the Burnside Station at 95th street and named it after Ambrose Burnside, a Civil War general and official of the ICRR.

* Ambrose Burnside ( 1824-1881 ), American general and namesake of sideburns