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 William Walker (soldier) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Walker convinced many Southerners of the desirability of creating a slave-holding empire in tropical Latin America.
Before the end of the American Civil War, Walker enjoyed great popularity in the southern and western United States, where he was known as "General Walker" and as the "grey-eyed man of destiny." Northerners, on the other hand, generally regarded him as a pirate.
Both Walker and Lindsley were Southern Presbyterians who believed in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race and in its civilizing mission in the world.
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 William Walker Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Walker (1824-1860) was a United States adventurer in Central America.
William Walker was born in Nashville, Tenn., on May 8, 1824.
Defeated, and his cause hopeless, Walker surrendered to a U.S. naval officer in May 1857 and was returned to the United States.
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 Lt. Colonel William C. Walker
On October 1, the Battalion, 600 officers and men, was mustered at Knoxville, and William C. Walker was selected as Lieutenant Colonel.
Walker's Battalion was unofficially designated the 80th and also never received official recognition above battalion status.
In late 1863 and by early 1864, due to combat fatalities (killed-in-action), diseases, wounds, missing-in-action, desertions, enlistment expiration, and soldiers captured by the enemy, many regiments were reduced by as much as 70%.
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 William Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Walker (composer) (1809–1875), composer in the shape note tradition, author of Southern Harmony
William Walker (politician), Irish-born state Assemblyman from New York; father of Jimmy Walker (mayor of New York City, 1926–1932)
William Walker (Quebec politician) (1797-1844), lawyer and politican in Lower Canada
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 William Daniels, the great Victorian artist
William Daniels was my Great-great uncle and one of the genetic sources of my artistic ability.
William Daniels was born about 1812, a native of the notorious Scotland Road district of Liverpool.
His father had been a soldier who married a girl from a public house and set up as a brickmaker, a trade in which all the family had to help.
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 William Gordon Cooke
William Gordon Cooke, soldier and statesman, son of Adam and Martha (Riddell) Cooke, was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on March 26, 1808.
Cooke received Grant's letter stating his intentions to join the Mexican Federalists and, after relaying this news to Fannin, was ordered to fall back to Goliad, where he arrived on February 12, 1836.
On September 17, 1841, he was deceived by the traitor Capt. William G. Lewis and surrendered the Texans' arms.
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 George Walker Bush and the Torture of the Innocent
Soldiers are killers, by definition, and a good soldier is a good killer.
What happened there was clearly in violation of miitary policy, and what has come out in these trials is that the soldiers knew that and chose to act as they did anyway.
The soldiers involved in the Bagram, Afghanistan incident have suffered for their actions.
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 Free Pennsylvania Genealogy - PA Civil War Soldier Biographies
In addition to battles fought, injuries and POW info, if any, each PA Civil War biography has genealogy data such as birthplace and birth date, parents, spouse, children, residence and occupation before and after the Civil War.
In addition to battles fought, injuries and POW info, if any, each biography has genealogy data such as birthplace and birth date, parents, spouse, children, residence and occupation before and after the War.
Many Civil War soldiers were recruited from overseas.
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 The Boston Globe Online - Boston.com
For families of two slain soldiers, at last, closure (By Tania deLuzuriaga and Brian Ballou, Globe Staff)
Honored by France 63 years later, soldiers recall WWII (By Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff)
A clash of generations in fl community (By Joseph Williams, Globe Staff)
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