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Rice Culture and Trade
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Then from the 1720s to the 1770s, Carolinians gradually shifted the locus of rice...colonists through royal grants. As Carolinians spread rice cultivation to the Savannah...Georgians (along with migrating South Carolinians) began to pursue slave-based rice...
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Great Lakes
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Georgian Bay, Lake Nipissing, and the Ottawa River), Carolinian-Canadian Transition (present-day Wisconsin, Michigan...Ontario), Illinoisan (southern Lake Michigan basin), and Carolinian (Ohio, Pennsylvania, and western New York). Paleo-Indian...
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Charleston Indian Trade
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...and French items and became indispensable to the Indians. Carolinians not only amassed wealth through trade, but they created...BIBLIOGRAPHY Hatley, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford University...
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Force Acts
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...tariffs, opposed by John C. Calhoun and other leading South Carolinians. Among other things, the legislation stipulated that the...and 1832. Reacting to such fears, Calhoun and other South Carolinians had promulgated a "doctrine of nullification," which...
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Tessin, Nicodemus, the Elder
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...He was City Architect of Stockholm from 1661 until his death. Among his other works were the noble Karolinska Grafkoret (Carolinian Mausoleum ) at the Riddarholms-Kyrka (Riddarholms Church—1671–1740), many houses in Stockholm...
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Hårleman, Carl
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...based on Blondel 's ideas that were influences on Adelcrantz and others. In the 1740s he carried out sensitive works at the Carolinian Mortuary Chapel ( Karolinska Grafkoret ), Riddarholms Church, Stockholm, originally designed by Tessin the Elder . Among...
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Polk, Leonidas
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Polk, Leonidas (1806–64) Confederate army officer. The North Carolinian was ordained in the Episcopal church and became bishop of the new Diocese of Louisiana in 1841. In the 1850s he devoted himself...
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Ashe, John
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...attack at Briar Creek, Georgia (March 3, 1779), Ashe's Georgians stood their ground until overwhelmed, while the North Carolinians broke and ran, some without having fired a shot. Ashe's defeat crushed the hopes of Lincoln and other patriots to recover...
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Bonham, Milledge Luke
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...governor of South Carolina (1862–64), born in South Carolina's Edgefield District. In the Civil War , he was the brigadier general of South Carolinian troops at First Bull Run (1861) and defending Richmond (1864).
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Shelton, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Shelton, Henry (1942?–) chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . The North Carolinian entered the army in 1963 and served two tours in the Vietnam War . From 1987 to 1989 he was deputy operations chief for the Joint...
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