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  Ambrose Burnside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burnside was given command of the “Right Wing” of the Army of the Potomac (the I and IX Corps) during the Maryland Campaign.
Burnside was then ordered to take the IX Corps back to Virginia, where he fought in the Overland Campaign directly under Grant; his corps was not assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac because he outranked its commander, Major General George G. Meade, who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg.
Burnside was noted for his unusual facial hair, joining his ears to his mustache, but with chin clean-shaven; the word burnsides was coined to describe these strips of hair in front of the ears.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambrose_Burnside   (1501 words)

  
 William Burnside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burnside was born in London, and attended St.
The central part of Burnside's group theory work was in the area of group representations, complementing and sometimes competing with the work of Frobenius, who had founded the subject in the 1890s.
Burnside is also remembered for the formulation of Burnside's problem, and for Burnside's lemma, though the latter should actually be attributed to Frobenius and Cauchy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Burnside   (359 words)

  
 Ambrose Burnside -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Burnside commanded the (A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies) North Carolina Expeditionary Corps, which formed the nucleus for his future (Click link for more info and facts about IX Corps) IX Corps, and the Department of North Carolina, from September, 1861, until July, 1862.
Burnside was given command of the “Right Wing” of the Army of the Potomac (the (The 9th letter of the Roman alphabet) I and IX Corps) during the (Click link for more info and facts about Maryland Campaign) Maryland Campaign.
Burnside was noted for his unusual (Click link for more info and facts about facial hair) facial hair, joining his ears to his mustache, but with chin clean-shaven; the word burnsides was coined to describe these strips of hair in front of the ears.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/ambrose_burnside.htm   (1736 words)

  
 Civil War Indiana Biographies - Ambrose Everett Burnside
Burnside organized the 1st Rhode Island Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War and commanded a brigade at the First Manassas.
Burnside commanded troops at Antietam, but was criticized for ineffectiveness when his delay caused a loss of opportunity for Union troops.
Burnside was assigned to command the Department of the Ohio in March 1863.
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 Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Burnside Senior was of Scottish ancestry, his grandfather having moved from Scotland to London where he was a partner in the booksellers Seeley and Burnside.
In 1899 Burnside was elected to the Council of the
Burnside quickly recognised the importance of Frobenius's methods and he began to use character theory.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Burnside.html   (1501 words)

  
 Civil War - Personalities - Burnside
Burnside and his subordinates had performed well in achieving the victory, which boosted Union morale still suffering from defeats the previous summer.
Burnside had captured a deepwater port for use in blockading this section of the Atlantic Coast and for operations against Wilmington, an important seaport.
Burnside had dealt with ocean storms, swamps and terrain problems and outgeneraled his opponents in establishing a substantial foothold on the North Carolina coast.
www.fredericksburg.com /CivilWar/Personalities/burnside.html   (1135 words)

  
 Burnside, Ambrose Everett. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In the Civil War, Burnside commanded a brigade at the first battle of Bull Run and was made (Aug., 1861) a brigadier general of volunteers.
He commanded under G. McClellan in the Antietam campaign and shortly afterward succeeded that general in command of the Army of the Potomac.
Burnside was elected governor of Rhode Island in 1866 and was reelected in 1867 and 1868.
www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Burnside.html   (314 words)

  
 R.L. Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Burnside, who subscribes to the Borscht Belt line "they can call me anything as long as they don't call me late for supper." Which proves not only that Burnside likes his humor well lived-in but that the Catskills and Mississippi hill country have more in common than one might think.
Listen to Burnside firing up his guitar alone, as drones and stray harmonics zing under a rhythm-and-slide accompaniment to his high-voiced vocal on his mentor Fred McDowell's gospel blues "Over the Hill." It's stone old-time country blues, and traditional as it gets.
Burnside's saying when he tell us that "Georgia women got sweet jelly roll," the sweaty slow grind of the big lascivious beat spells out s-e-x.
www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/03-13-97/REX/R_L_BURNSIDE.html   (649 words)

  
 R.L. Burnside -- blues musician loved by rockers
Burnside, who was born in Harmontown, Miss., grew up near McDowell and learned to play guitar from him and said that a cousin of his had married Muddy Waters.
Burnside's music had a rough, obstinate energy that also appealed to contemporary rock musicians and fans, and in the 1990s, after decades of obscurity, he began to find wide success.
Burnside spent most of his life in the poor hill country of northern Mississippi, and his experience with the music industry had been slight before the 1990s.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/03/BAGNQEHS381.DTL&type=news   (487 words)

  
 The Burnside Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Moreover, Burnside forms one of the axes to the greater Portland street address system, which extends (with some exceptions) over the entirety of the three metropolitan counties of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties.
Burnside provides the division between north and south, and the Willamette River, which it spans, separates east from west and is itself used as a direction division.
Parts of the precursor Burnside (built in 1894), a steel truss design, were used in other projects when it was dismantled to make way for the 1926 span.
spot.pcc.edu /~dkirby/student_sites/samuelklein52/final/bridges/burnside.html   (286 words)

  
 July 1996 --Burnside Carbine - Part II
It was not easy to convert a Burnside to rimfire or centerfire cartridges, and most Burnsides were not used between the end of the Civil War and the advent of Skirmishing.
As this photo illustrates, the Burnside lock is a "back-action" lock, which means that the mainspring is behind the tumbler.
The Burnside lock uses the lower portion of the bottom of the mainspring as the sear spring, which requires careful tuning of the lock.
www.civilwarguns.com /9607.html   (1487 words)

  
 The Infamous Burnside!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the heart of downtown Portland, underneath the east end of the Burnside Bridge.
There is a spine and a half pyramid to the side and the entire park has good coping and high walls.
Burnside is very popular and it can get crowded on the weekends.
www.oregonskateparks.com /Parks/Burnside.htm   (257 words)

  
 General Ambrose E. Burnside biography
Burnside’s pristine reputation as a military commander began to erode at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.
Burnside repeatedly threw his men against the narrow bridge in the face of deadly Confederate fire, in spite of the fact that Antietam Creek could have been forded nearby in any number of places.
Burnside, always the innovator, liked the idea and promised to present it to his superior, General George Meade.
nd.essortment.com /ambroseburnside_rfss.htm   (1388 words)

  
 June 1996 -- Burnside Carbine - Part I
Ambrose Everett Burnside was born in 1824 and graduated from the U. Military Academy in 1847, being posted as a Lieutenant of Artillery to Mexico that same year.
Burnside received his first patent on his original carbine on March 25, 1856.
Burnside required the use of cartridges of his own manufacture in his arms.
www.civilwarguns.com /9606.html   (1206 words)

  
 Ambrose Burnside
Burnside took part in the battle at Antietam (September, 1862) and afterwards President Abraham Lincoln asked him to replace George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Burnside was put in charge of the Army of Ohio in March, 1863 and succeeded in capturing Morgan's Raiders and performed well at the siege of Knoxville.
General Burnside bore himself like an honorable man. During the battle he had proposed to put himself personally at the head of his old corps, the Ninth, and to lead it in the assault.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWburnside.htm   (1100 words)

  
 Burnside problem
Burnside showed a number of results in his 1902 paper;
Burnside and Schur made early progress on the problems in two papers, which confirmed that the problem would certainly not be straightforward:
Despite this formulation having been present on the seminar circuit in the 1930's, it was not until 1940 that the first paper, by Grün [6], appeared specifically addressing the RBP, and not until 1950 that the term "Restricted Burnside Problem" was coined by Magnus [7].
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Burnside_problem.html   (852 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ambrose Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Second Battle of Bull Run Conflict American Civil War Date August 28–30, 1862 Place Prince William County Result Confederate victory The Second Battle of Bull Run, known as the Second Battle of Manassas in the South, was fought August 30, 1862, as the major battle in the Northern Virginia...
The Mud March was an abortive attempt at a winter offensive in January, 1863, by Major General Ambrose Burnside in the American Civil War.
General Ambrose Burnside, whom sideburns were presumably named after Sideburns are facial hair in front of the ears.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ambrose-Burnside   (4315 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bluesman R.L. Burnside dies at 78   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis Hospital in Memphis His health had been declining for some time, said Matthew Johnson, owner of Burnside's record label, Fat Possum.
Burnside was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Harmontown on Nov. 23, 1926.
Burnside is survived by his wife, Alice Mae, twelve children and numerous grandchildren.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-09-01-burnside-obit_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (496 words)

  
 Burnside takes command
Burnside produced a dependable carbine for the U.S. Cavalry, but when the secretary of war awarded the contract to another firm, the company went belly up.
Burnside, for his part, was bumped up to major general and eventually received command of the 9th Corps, a unit in McClellan’s army.
That Burnside lacked the confidence and ability to command an army was undoubtedly true, but he had more personal reasons for not accepting the command.
www.fredericksburg.com /CivilWar/Artifacts/NAphotos/Battle/0203burn.htm   (1293 words)

  
 City of Burnside - Welcome - Adelaide, South Australia
The City of Burnside is one of Adelaide's oldest residential areas, and is well known for its tree lined streets, period architecture and plentiful reserves and gardens within our 30 square kilometre area.
Offering a wide range of community facilities and a diverse mix of shopping and retail outlets, the City of Burnside is one of Adelaide's most pleasant places to live or visit.
To help improve communication with residents and reduce costs, the City of Burnside is offering residents the option to electronically receive information about upcoming events or activities.
www.burnside.sa.gov.au   (234 words)

  
 Ambrose Bunside, 1824-1881   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Burnside was assigned to the artillery branch and served in the Mexican War, although mostly on garrison duty in Mexico City.
In the late 1850s, the affable, six-foot Burnside ran as a candidate for Congress, was a major general in the Rhode Island militia, (was jilted at the altar), and worked for Illinois Central Railroad.
Burnside was replaced by Joseph Hooker and sent west to command the Army and Department of the Ohio.
www.indianainthecivilwar.com /hoosier/burnside.htm   (508 words)

  
 The UNC Press, Burnside by William Marvel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war.
Marvel challenges the traditional evaluation of Burnside as a nice man who failed badly as a general.
Marvel's extensive research indicates that Burnside was often the scapegoat of his superiors and his junior officers and that William B. Franklin deserves a large share of the blame for the Federal defeat at Fredericksburg.
uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-949.html   (277 words)

  
 Burnside Skatepark Portland Oregon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Built without permission, by skateboarders and later sanctioned by the city, Burnside is the preeminent example of action.
Burnside's unique growth and evolution -through the sweat and blood of a handful of dedicated individuals- have matured into one of the best skateparks in the world.
Burnside and its creators are true pioneers, setting the stage for community built skateparks across the country.
www.skateoregon.com /Burnside/Burnside.html   (245 words)

  
 Burnside RV - A FreedomRoads RV Dealer
The Burnside family has been in the retail auto and RV business for over 60 years.
In 1994, Burnside RV is recognized as number ONE in the state of Michigan for new 5th wheel sales.
Burnside RV has held this prestigious recognition by remaining in the top five, within the state of Michigan, for new 5th wheel sales since 1994.
www.burnsiderv.com /dlr_about_us.asp   (413 words)

  
 {=} Burnside Skatepark {=}
I just want this to be a place where local, past or present, Burnside skaters can show their artistic side, other than on their skateboard.
The other big plan is the Burnside Bridgehead Development going in on the skateparks doorstep, well if it had a door.
The Burnside Skateboard Park is a historical park that was started in 1990 by skateboarders trying to improve skateboarding for their community.
burnsideskatepark.blogspot.com   (1578 words)

  
 Ambrose Everett Burnside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Burnside's generalship was poor at the September 1862 Battle of Sharpsburg, Md., where a bridge his men crossed now bears his name, but even still his ability was much superior to the generalship of McClellan, the army commander.
This time Burnside reluctantly accepted, but told his fellow generals "that he knew he was not fit for so big a command." In the next month's Battle of Fredericksburg, where his men were slaughtered in the attacks on Marye's Heights, Burnside proved that he had been a competent judge of his own capabilities.
After the disastrous, humiliating January 1863 "Mud March," the army was taken from Burnside and he was assigned to the command of the Department of the Ohio.
www.us-civilwar.com /burnside.htm   (452 words)

  
 BURNSIDE, JOAN, Ph.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Burnside's current research focus is on chicken genomics, with an emphasis on high throughput sequencing for the purpose of developing a collection of chicken ESTs.
To further understanding of GH signaling, the domain of this protein is being used in the yeast two hybrid system to identify novel components of the signaling pathway.
Over-expression of a truncated growth hormone receptor in the sex-linked dwarf chicken: Evidence for a splice mutation.
ag.udel.edu /anfs/faculty/burnside.htm   (781 words)

  
 Burnside High School - Music - Junior chorale
Burnside High School enjoys in particular a strong choral tradition and has a number of choral groups.
The Burnside High School Junior Chorale is an auditioned choir consisting of students from Years 9 and 10.
These students are involved in a wide range of other music activities at Burnside High School and are involved in numerous musical activities within Christchurch.
www.burnside.school.nz /subjects/music/junior_chorale.html   (318 words)

  
 Burnside RV - A FreedomRoads RV Dealer
Burnside RV is the largest RV dealer in Northern Michigan and one of the largest in Michigan, e.g.
Burnside RV has made every effort to ensure accuracy in the information provided.
Burnside RV is not responsible for typographical errors in price or errors in description of condition of this vehicle's listed equipment, accessories, price or warranties.
www.burnsiderv.com   (213 words)

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