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Garfield conceived a plan to conduct a cavalry raid behind Bragg's line ( similar to that Bragg was employing against Rosecrans ) which Rosecrans approved ; the raid, led by Abel Streight, failed, due in part to poor execution and weather.
Bragg attempted to continue the assault with the corps of Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, but the troops were slow in arriving and their multiple piecemeal attacks failed.
Two days later, Polk disregarded orders from Bragg to attack another isolated corps, the second failed opportunity.

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They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both William Lawrence Bragg and Wilkins.
However, defects that produce only displacement of atoms that do not tilt the crystal to the Bragg angle ( i. e. displacements parallel to the crystal plane ) will not produce strong contrast.
Lincoln wrote to Rosecrans, " I would not push you to any rashness, but I am very anxious that you do your utmost, short of rashness, to keep Bragg from getting lost to help Johnston against Grant.
Rosecrans sent a questionnaire to his corps and division commanders in the hopes of documenting support for his position — that Bragg had so far detached no significant forces to Johnston in Mississippi, that advancing the Army of the Cumberland would do nothing to prevent any such transfer, and that any immediate advance was not a good idea.

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Sheridan impulsively ordered his men to pursue Bragg to the Confederate supply depot at Chickamauga Station, but called them back when he realized that his was the only command so far forward.
If the sample is oriented so that one particular plane is only slightly tilted away from the strongest diffracting angle ( known as the Bragg Angle ), any distortion of the crystal plane that locally tilts the plane to the Bragg angle will produce particularly strong contrast variations.
Although it was originally reported that the show was ending due to Bragg's retirement, Bragg later made it clear that he decided to leave after they ended the show, and thought ending it was a mistake ; according to him, " they've killed the show, so I thought, I'll go as well.
Because of the Bragg Peak effect, proton therapy has advantages over other the other forms of radiation, since most of the proton's energy is deposited within a limited distance, so tissue beyond this range ( and to some extent also tissue inside this range ) is spared from the effects of radiation.
Bragg ordered bales of cotton and tobacco burned so that they would not fall into Union hands.
But before doing so, at age 20, Berry volunteered for induction into the army and he was assigned to Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

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Fort Bragg has variety of restaurants and cafes positioned along Highway 1, which officially becomes Main Street upon entering the city, and other streets.
Bragg diffraction occurs when electromagnetic radiation or subatomic particle waves with wavelength comparable to atomic spacings are incident upon a crystalline sample, are scattered in a specular fashion by the atoms in the system, and undergo constructive interference in accordance to Bragg's law.
The Escuela de Entrenamiento Basico de Infanteria ( EEBI, Infantry Basic Training School ) was founded in 1976-77 by then Capitan Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero upon its return from the United States after attending the American school for psychological and special warfare at Fort Bragg.
The melody of " Chimes of Freedom " was deliberately borrowed by Billy Bragg for the song " Ideology ", from his third album, Talking with the Taxman about Poetry, with Bragg's chorus " above the sound of ideologies clashing " echoing Dylan's " we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing ".
Joe Hill wrote a song based upon the ' Battle Cry of Freedom ' with a socialist slant called " There Is Power in a Union " which has been recorded several times, including by Billy Bragg on the Talking with the Taxman about Poetry album.

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Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".
Sir Lawrence Bragg, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, where Watson and Crick worked, gave a talk at Guys Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in The News Chronicle of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled " Why You Are You.
* Sweet Honey in the Rock's 1981 album, Good News, contains tracks titled " Biko " and " Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto ", which compares Biko's death to that of Chilean musician Victor Jara and was covered by Billy Bragg in 1992.
In 1912 – 1913, the younger Bragg developed Bragg's law, which connects the observed scattering with reflections from evenly spaced planes within the crystal.
The orientation of a particular set of sheets is identified by its three Miller indices ( h, k, l ), and let their spacing be noted by d. William Lawrence Bragg proposed a model in which the incoming X-rays are scattered specularly ( mirror-like ) from each plane ; from that assumption, X-rays scattered from adjacent planes will combine constructively ( constructive interference ) when the angle θ between the plane and the X-ray results in a path-length difference that is an integer multiple n of the X-ray wavelength λ.
How much of this was due to his intake of alcohol is impossible to ascertain, according to Bragg, because of Burton's reluctance to be treated for alcohol addiction ; however, in 1974, Burton spent six weeks in a clinic to recuperate from a period during which he had been drinking three bottles of vodka a day.
Longstreet argued that a reinforced army under Bragg could defeat Rosecrans and drive toward the Ohio River, which would compel Grant to break his hold on Vicksburg.
This technique specifically refers to the analysis of Bragg peaks scattered to wide angles, which ( by Bragg's law ) implies that they are caused by sub-nanometer-sized structures.
He wrote, " If the whole world were to ask me to restore General Beauregard to the command which I have already given to General Bragg, I would refuse it.
Past park facilities included two tennis courts and the old civic center which were located adjacent to city hall in the center of the city, two tennis courts located on Tarrant Road in the eastern edge of the city, a mini park located at the corner of Peterson Drive and Tarrant Road which contained an asphalt basketball court, and a softball field that was located behind the south end of Bragg Middle School.
Federally, Fort Bragg is located in California's 1st congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 10 and is represented by Democrat Mike Thompson.
The scion of a once prominent Central Florida political family, Bragg is a former active duty U. S. Army infantry officer and Korean War veteran whose own foray into public life was a run for the Florida State Legislature which proved disastrous because of his open support for racial desegregation based on the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Sir Lawrence Bragg, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, where Watson and Crick worked, gave a talk at Guys Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in The News Chronicle of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled " Why You Are You.
Bragg was unwilling to reduce his forces, which he felt were necessary to defend Wilmington.
In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.
The show contained his popular music parodies ( such as Unisex Chip Shop, a Billy Bragg tribute which he performed with Billy Bragg at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival ), " three men in a pub " jokes ( including one in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer ) and deconstructions of television themes such as Countdown and The Magic Roundabout.
The school is divided into houses one of which is named " Bragg ".
In 2007, Marc Bragg, an attorney, was banned from Second Life ; in response he sued the developers for thereby depriving him of his land, which he – based on the developers ' own statements – " owned ".
The lawsuit ended with a settlement in which Bragg was re-admitted to Second Life.
The battle was fought between the Union Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg, and was named for West Chickamauga Creek, which meanders near the battle area in northwest Georgia ( and ultimately flows into the Tennessee River about 3. 5 miles ( 5. 6 km ) northeast of downtown Chattanooga ).

Bragg and Forrest
Forrest protested that to send such untrained men behind enemy lines was suicidal, but Bragg insisted, and Forrest obeyed his orders.
" After Forrest made death threats against Bragg during a confrontation, Bragg reassigned him to an independent command in Mississippi.
He began to suffer from poor relations with the Confederacy's arguably greatest cavalryman, Nathan Bedford Forrest, when Bragg reassigned most of Forrest's men to Wheeler, sending Forrest to Murfreesboro to recruit a new brigade.
Forrest angrily told Wheeler " Tell Bragg that I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.
" Bragg dealt with this rivalry in the Tullahoma Campaign by assigning Wheeler to guard the army's right flank while Forrest guarded the left.
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest denounced Wheeler, a favorite of Gen. Braxton Bragg, saying he would not again serve under him.

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