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Ballarat
Ballarat , city (1991 pop. 64,980), Victoria, SE Australia. It is an industrial center; clothing, food products, paper, brick and tile, and other goods are made. The city flourished during the gold rush (1860s), then declined. It was the site of the Eureka Stockade uprising (1854), an armed insurrec... Read more
Fort Mims
Fort Mims temporary stockade near the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. It was the scene of a massacre (Aug. 30, 1813); William Weatherford led a Native American force in the killing of c.500 whites. ... Read more
William Weatherford
William Weatherford c.1780-1824, Native American chief, b. present-day Alabama, also called Red Eagle. In the War of 1812 he led the Creek war party, stirred by Tecumseh , against the Americans. On Aug. 30, 1813, he attacked Fort Mims, a temporary stockade near the confluence of the Tombigbee and ... Read more
blockhouse
blockhouse small fortification , usually temporary, serving as a post for a small garrison. Blockhouses seem to have come into use in the 15th cent. to prevent access to a strategically important objective such as a bridge, a ford, or a pass. Later the term was broadened to include all detached an... Read more
Schenectady
Schenectady , city (1990 pop. 65,566), seat of Schenectady co., E central N.Y., on the Mohawk River and Erie Canal; founded 1661 by Arent Van Curler, inc. 1798. The General Electric Company was established there in 1892, but its presence waned in the late 20th cent. and the city's population decline... Read more
Wall Street
Wall Street narrow street in the lower part of Manhattan island, New York City, extending E from Broadway to the East River. It is the center of one of the greatest financial districts in the world, and by extension the term "Wall St." has come to designate U.S. financial interests. In the dist... Read more
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears (1838–39).In the late eighteenth century, the Cherokees led all other tribes in responding to George Washington's policy of assimilation, establishing a written constitution, a bicameral legislature, and a supreme court. White Americans, however, sought their removal in order t... Read more
Jersey City
Jersey City city (1990 pop. 228,537), seat of Hudson co., NE N.J., a port on a peninsula formed by the Hudson and Hackensack rivers and Upper New York Bay, opposite lower Manhattan; settled before 1650, inc. as Jersey City 1836. The second largest city in the state and a commercial and industrial c... Read more
fortification
fortification system of defense structures for protection from enemy attacks. Fortification developed along two general lines: permanent sites built in peacetime, and emplacements and obstacles hastily constructed in the field in time of war. Ancient and Medieval Fortifications As long as... Read more
Montreal
Montreal , Fr. Montréal , city (1991 pop. 1,017,666), S Que., Canada, on Montreal island, surrounded by St. Lawrence River and Rivière des Prairies. Montreal is the second largest metropolitan area in Canada, after Toronto, and is a cultural, commercial, financial, and industrial cent... Read more

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Eureka Stockade
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Eureka Stockade (1854) Armed rebellion of gold diggers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia...administration of the goldfields culminated in some 150 diggers forming a stockade and firing on a contingent of 280 police and troops. They were quickly...
Ballarat
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...other goods are made. The city flourished during the gold rush (1860s), then declined. It was the site of the Eureka Stockade uprising (1854), an armed insurrection by gold miners who resented licence fees. The site now contains a historical...
Nolan, Sidney
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...notorious outlaw, Ned Kelly. He continued painting subjects which portrayed events from Australian history, notably the Eureka Stockade series (1949). His almost surreal landscapes express the hard, scorched majesty of the outback.

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eureka
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...flag bearing a white cross with a star at the end of each arm, first raised at the Eureka stockade ; it is also known as the Southern Cross . Eureka stockade scene of a clash between gold-miners and the police and military at the site of the...
Eureka Rebellion
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Eureka Rebellion (1854) An armed conflict between diggers and authorities...culminated in an attack by soldiers and police on diggers who were in a stockade on the “Eureka lead”. Thirteen diggers faced charges of high treason...
Nolan, Sir Sidney
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...explorers Burke and Wills, who died in 1861 on the first expedition to cross the country from south to north, and the Eureka Stockade, a goldminers' uprising against colonial rule in 1854. In works on such themes he created a distinctive idiom to...
Finch, Peter
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Calling (Ivens—short) (as narrator); Native Earth (Heyer—short) (as narrator) 1949 Eureka Stockade (Massacre Hill ) (Watt) (as John Humffray); "The Actor" ep. of Train of Events (Dearden) (as Philip Mason...
Australia, Commonwealth of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Victoria. Melbourne, its capital, rapidly became Australia's financial and industrial centre. A miners' revolt at Eureka Stockade near Ballarat in 1854 eventually forced the introduction of democratic reforms far in advance of those in England...

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Fed: Eureka Stockade celebrations launched
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 11/26/2004; 680 words ; ...Australia) 11-26-2004 Fed: Eureka Stockade celebrations launched By Alex...Cross rose above the site of the Eureka Stockade today, the great-great-granddaughter...the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. Mr Bracks said he hoped the...
Vic: Eureka Stockade gets heritage listing
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/1/2000; 268 words ; ...Australia) 12-01-2000 Vic: Eureka Stockade gets heritage listing MELBOURNE, Dec 1 AAP - The Eureka Stockade, site of the 1854 miners' uprising...today announced it had put the Eureka Stockade Reserve at Ballarat on the state...
NT: Darwin woman polishes mementos of Eureka Stockade
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/3/2001; 388 words ; ...Darwin woman polishes mementos of Eureka Stockade Eds: Corrects name to O'Reilly...anniversary of the battle for the Eureka Stockade today is one of the occasions...British troops on 150 miners at the Eureka Stockade. AAP rmg/ph/sb KEYWORD...
Eureka stockade over trademark.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 8/17/2007; 484 words ; ...Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Eureka Financial has been legally entitled to use the name "Eureka" as a trademark within the Australian...finance commentator Alan Kohler over his "Eureka Report" newsletter. Greg Cook, the head...
The eureka stockade.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 12/22/2004; ; 441 words ; Our rallies had gone famously in Ballarat and Castlemaine. There was no power outside the people we said and the people agreed, an ace against searches and the punitive cost of a fossicking license. So we made haste in those days. Lashing maples onto maples. Most came for the rum I am sure but I
Remembering Eureka.
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...year on the anniversary of the Eureka stockade, Australia's nearest approximation...in Ballarat to commemorate the Eureka stockade would be a bone of contention...had been commissioned by the Eureka stockade Memorial Trust for the courtyard...
Vic: Emotional descendants recall Eureka rebellion
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/3/2004; 700+ words ; ...tribute to those who died at the Eureka Stockade was also a symbolic victory for...people gathered on the site of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, central Victoria...flown and the significance of the Eureka Stockade honoured. This week, every...
Vic: Eureka emotions still raw 150 years on
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/3/2004; 700+ words ; ...people gathered on the site of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat today to reflect...have the significance of the Eureka Stockade recognised. The great-great...flown and the significance of the Eureka Stockade honoured. This week, every...
Vic: Hicks defends his part in Eureka ceremony
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/5/2004; 528 words ; ...Hicks has defended his role in today's Eureka Stockade dawn anniversary ceremony in Ballarat. Terry...commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. The battle at the Eureka Stockade was the result of tensions between miners...
Fed: Eureka legend growing
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 11/25/2004; 700+ words ; ...anniversary of the battle of the Eureka Stockade, he was knocked back. "They...Theatre in Melbourne. Respected Eureka Stockade historian Professor John Molony...On December 1, they built the Eureka Stockade out of wooden slabs and carts...