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Confederacy and lacked
The cooperative production and communal distribution of goods made internal trade within the Iroquois Confederacy pointless, but external trade with tribes in regions with resources the Iroquois lacked served a purpose.
When war broke out LeMat received Confederate contracts for the production of five thousand revolvers, and plans were laid to manufacture the gun abroad and then import them into the Confederacy, which lacked the necessary facilities to produce the weapon locally.

Confederacy and reinforcements
Fearful that they would ally with the Caledonian Confederacy and unable to secure troop reinforcements from Severus, Lupus had no choice but to pay the rebels in return for their withdrawal and the return of a few prisoners.
In revenge, his troops pillaged the Engadin valley, but retreated quickly before reinforcements from the Swiss Confederacy arrived.

Confederacy and so
That employment exempted Peirce from having to take part in the Civil War ; it would have been very awkward for him to do so, as the Boston Brahmin Peirces sympathized with the Confederacy.
* 1861-65-Lincoln threatens war against any country that recognizes the Confederacy ; no country does so
In the Central Alps the chief event, on the northern side of the chain, is the gradual formation from 1291 to 1516 of the Swiss Confederacy, at least so far as regards the mountain Cantons, and with especial reference to the independent confederations of the Grisons and the Valais, which only became full members of the Confederation in 1803 and 1815 respectively.
During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.
However, the Confederacy demanded that those who were able to make shoes, uniforms, or weapons continue to do so or pay heavy taxes.
The courthouse grounds feature a towering Confederate soldier memorial, erected in the early 20th century by the United Daughters of the Confederacy ( UDC ), topped by a Confederate soldier facing northward, and bearing the following inscription honoring Confederate casualties of war: God holds the scales of justice ;< p > He will measure praise and blame ;< p > And the South will stand the verdict ,< p > And will stand it without shame .< p ></ br > Oh, home of tears, but let her bear < p > This blazoned to the end of time ;< p > No nation rose so white and fair ,< p > None fell so free of crime .< p >
During the so-called Buffalo Wars ( about 1850-1870 ) they penetrated further and further into the territory from the Niitsitapi Confederacy in search for the buffalo, so that the Piegan were forced to evade in the region of the Missouri River ( in Cree: Pikano Sipi-" Muddy River ", " Muddy, turbid River "), the Kainai ( in Cree: Miko-Ew-" stained with blood ", i. e. " the bloodthirsty, cruel ", therefore, in English often referred to as Blood ) withdraw to the Bow River and Belly River, only the Siksika could hold their tribal lands along the Red Deer River.
As a candidate, Greeley argued that the war was over, the Confederacy was destroyed, and slavery was dead – and that Reconstruction was a success, so it was time to pull Federal troops out of the South and let the people there run their own affairs.
Even so, the next year two ironclad warships under construction in Birkenhead and destined for the Confederacy were detained after their completion but before their launch.
" My primary mission ," reasoned Grant, " is to ... bring pressure to bear on the Confederacy so no longer could it take advantage of interior lines.
As he looked upon it, the Confederacy could not match the industrial North in numbers of ships at sea, so they would have to compete by building vessels that would be individually superior to those of the Union.
Many of the cowboys were veterans of the Civil War, particularly coming from both the Confederacy, and the Union, who returned to their home towns and found no future, so they went west looking for new opportunities.
He returned to Kentucky after the war, but found it embroiled in violent feuding between those who had supported the Union and those who had supported the Confederacy, so he sold his property and left, explaining, " I've seen enough bloodshed ; I didn't want any more.
He returned to Arkansas in February 1865, when it was clear the Confederacy was about to lose, so that he could help facilitate the return of his state to the Union.
On the eve of the outbreak of the Civil War, he counseled delay in moving militarily against the Northern-held Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens so that the Confederacy could build up its forces and stock resources.
The British Mail On Sunday wrote: " Not since first reading John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece A Confederacy Of Dunces, have I laughed so much, or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice.
Stevens was so outspoken in his condemnation of the Confederacy that Major General Jubal Early of the Army of Northern Virginia made a point of burning much of his iron business, at modern-day Caledonia State Park, to the ground during the Gettysburg Campaign.
The South also argued that the Fugitive Slave Act only applied to the Union ; the South had broken away, so the law did not apply to the Confederacy.
His company's raids on Union camps and bases were so effective, part of North-Central Virginia soon became known as Mosby's Confederacy.
By contrast the Confederacy gave paper promissory notes when it seized property, so that even loyal Confederates would hide their horses and mules rather than sell them for dubious paper.
De La Rue shipped 12, 000, 000 copies of this issue to the Confederacy, accompanied by a set of printing plates and a supply of English paper so that additional copies could be produced locally.
This fourth star was originally placed so that there were two stars above the state name and two below ; this was to include the Confederacy alongside Spain, France, and the United States.
Furthermore, the Confederacy was split in two by a campaign based on the Mississippi River, and a consensus has now been established that this Southern defeat was at least as important in the final collapse of the Rebellion as the land battles in the East that had so long attracted both public and historians ' attention.

Confederacy and Lee's
* Connelly, Thomas L., " Robert E. Lee and the Western Confederacy: A Criticism of Lee's Strategic Ability.
The battle, sometimes referred to as the " Waterloo of the Confederacy ," pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Hill once said he had no desire to live to see the collapse of the Confederacy, and on April 2, 1865 ( during the Union breakthrough in the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House ), he was killed by a Union soldier, Corporal John W. Mauck of the 138th Pennsylvania, as he rode to the front of the Petersburg lines, accompanied by a lone staff officer.
David Eicher called Fighting for the Confederacy " a superb personal narrative with a good deal of analysis of Lee's operations ...
Grant laid siege to Lee's army at Petersburg, Virginia, and eventually captured Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.
He devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, Meade, and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Richmond ; Sherman to invade Georgia and capture Atlanta ; and Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.
Following the critical success of R. E. Lee: A Biography, Freeman expanded his study of the Confederacy with the critically acclaimed three-volume Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, published in 1942, 1943, and 1944.
As news spread of Lee's surrender, other Confederate commanders realized that the strength of the Confederacy was fading, and decided to lay down their own arms.
He devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, Meade, and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Richmond ; Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel to invade the Shenandoah Valley and destroy Lee's supply lines ; Sherman to invade Georgia and capture Atlanta ; Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.
Each maneuver brought the armies closer to the Confederate capital of Richmond, but the city was not the main objective — the destruction of Lee's army was the goal established by Grant and President Abraham Lincoln, with the understanding that Richmond and the Confederacy would fall if Lee were defeated.
Sometimes called the " Waterloo of the Confederacy ," Five Forks helped set in motion a series of events that led to Robert E. Lee's subsequent surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Confederacy and army
To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh ( April 1862 ) and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army.
The Swiss army originated from the cantonal troops of the Old Swiss Confederacy, called upon in cases of external threats by the Tagsatzung or by the canton in distress.
He later remarked that the carnage at Shiloh had made it clear to him that the Confederacy would only be defeated by complete annihilation of its army.
Though Bragg's army had not been captured, the decisive battle opened Georgia and the heartland of the Confederacy to Union invasion by Maj. Gen. Sherman.
With the help of the Old Swiss Confederacy, they routed the Burgundian army and captured three capes of the of the Golden Fleece which belonged to Charles the Bold including one with the emblems of Philip the Good, his father.
The army conducted new elections in which the freed slaves could vote, while whites who held leading positions under the Confederacy were temporarily denied the vote and could not run for office.
Morphy ’ s brother Edward had at the very start joined the army of the Confederacy, whereas his mother and sisters emigrated to Paris.
In the American Civil War, Scott County furnished the Union army with 118 soldiers and the Confederacy with approximately 1, 000.
When Teague lifts the spell on Paradine, he brags that he could stop the entire army in this manner, ensuring the success of the Confederacy.
However the United States military realised it needed a well-trained standing army following St. Clair's Defeat on November 4, 1791, when a force led by General Arthur St. Clair was almost entirely wiped out by the Western Confederacy near Fort Recovery, Ohio.
His mission was not only to defeat Early's army and to close off the Northern invasion route, but to deny the Shenandoah Valley as a productive agricultural region to the Confederacy.
When it became clear the Confederacy had no intention of negotiating with the Republic, the Republic adopted this army as the Grand Army of the Republic, along with AT-TE walkers, gunships and other the Republic Open Circle Fleet, most of which were produced by Rothan Heavy Engineering.
Palpatine's first move, widely supported at the time, was to create a vast army of clone troopers to serve as the Republic's fighting force against the Confederacy.
However, the fact that the Confederacy had access to an enormous army of droid soldiers required the Republic to construct a more formal military to fight effectively.
and his army during a winter offensive to divide the Confederacy in two by controlling the Mississippi River.
Although this incident is sometimes described as a proposal for " guerrilla war ," Alexander describes in his memoir, Fighting for the Confederacy, the proposed alternative to surrender as " the army may be ordered to scatter in the woods & bushes & either to rally upon Gen. Johnston in North Carolina, or to make their way, each man to his own state, with his arms, & to report to his governor.
Parallels between the Clone Wars and the American Civil War also seem to exist with the secession of territories, the name " Confederacy of Independent Systems " and the Republic's army being called the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America ( or " Confederacy ") while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War.
In 400, Silla, another Korean kingdom in the southeast of the peninsula, requested Goguryeo assistance to defend against an alliance of Japanese army, the Baekje kingdom to the west, and the Gaya Confederacy to the southwest.
Stand Watie and his supporters, the majority of the Nation, sided with the Confederacy ( he served as an officer in their army, along with other Cherokee.
Bacon's army kills and enslaves Susquehannock, Occaneechi, Appomatuck, Manakin, members of Powhattan Confederacy.
It occurred on 23 September 1803 near Assaye in western India where an outnumbered Indian and British force under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley ( who later became the Duke of Wellington ) defeated a combined Confederacy army of Daulat Scindia and the Raja of Berar.

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