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Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson (Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824-63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846. Like a Stone Wall He served with distinction under Winfield Scott in the Mexican War and from 1851 to 1861 taught at the Virginia Military Institute. He resig... Read more
Bainbridge
Bainbridge city (1990 pop. 10,712), seat of Decatur co., SW Ga., on the Flint River; inc. 1829. It grew up around a fort, used by Andrew Jackson, that was constructed during the Indian Wars of 1817-1821. The city is a trade and industrial center as well as an inland port and barge terminal. Industr... Read more
Botany Bay
Botany Bay inlet, New South Wales, SE Australia, just S of Sydney. It was visited in 1770 by James Cook, who proclaimed British sovereignty over the east coast of Australia. The site of the landing is marked by a monument on Inscription Point. The bay was named by Cook and Sir Joseph Banks because ... Read more
Richard Stoddert Ewell
Richard Stoddert Ewell 1817-72, Confederate general, b. Georgetown, D.C., grad. West Point, 1840. Ewell rose rapidly in the Confederate army, becoming a major general by Oct., 1861. In 1862 he fought under T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley campaign, playing a decisive role at Win... Read more
Jackson
Jackson State capital and largest city of Mississippi, USA, on the Pearl River, sw Mississippi. Established as a trading post in the 1790s, it was chosen as state capital in 1821. Industries: natural gas, glass, textiles. Pop. (2000) 184,256.... Read more
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson (Joseph Jefferson Jackson), 1887-1951, American baseball player, b. Brandon Mills, S.C. Holder of the third highest (.356) career batting average in major league history, Jackson was banned from baseball in 1921 for his part in the 1919 Black Sox scandal . He is said to have b... Read more
National Republican party
National Republican party in U.S. history, a short-lived political party opposed to Andrew Jackson . In the election of 1828, which Jackson won overwhelmingly, some of the supporters of his opponent, President John Quincy Adams, called themselves National Republicans. It was under this name that, ... Read more
William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson 1843-1942, American artist and pioneer photographer of the West, b. Keeseville, N.Y. After serving with the Union army in the Civil War he traveled overland to California (1866-67), part of the way on a Mormon wagon train, and then settled in Omaha, Neb. (1868). Engaged in pho... Read more
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson 1919-65, American writer, b. San Francisco. She is best known for her stories and novels of horror and the occult, rendered more terrifying because they are set against realistic, everyday backgrounds. Her works include "The Lottery" (a short story first published in The New Yo... Read more
Sydney
Sydney city (1991 pop. 3,097,956), capital of New South Wales, SE Australia, surrounding Port Jackson inlet on the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is Australia's largest city, chief port, and main cultural and industrial center. The city serves as the center for retail and wholesale trade as well as public a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Port Jackson"

Port Jackson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Port Jackson or Sydney Harbour, inlet of the Pacific Ocean, 22 sq mi (57 sq km), 12 mi (19 km) long and 1.5 mi (2.4 km) wide at...
Jackson, Andrew
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...defeat. During this battle Jackson's men recognized his toughness...the South through one of the ports on the Gulf of Mexico, Jackson was ordered to block the invasion...Americans were lost in battle. Jackson became a national hero overnight...
Flinders, Matthew
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...7 October 1798 they sailed from Port Jackson in the sloop Norfolk . After discovering...Melbourne), before reaching Port Jackson (Sydney). In July 1802 he continued...the continent, returning to Port Jackson on 9 June 1803. It was a voyage...
Sydney
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities ...millennium. 2. Centered around the Port Jackson harbor on Australia's east coast...carriers. Shipping Sydney is served by Port Jackson, one of Australia's busiest ports, as well as a newer port in Botany Bay devoted exclusively to...
Robert Brown
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...King George Sound (which proved to host a wealth of previously undiscovered plant species), and Port Jackson. Brown spent ten months in Port Jackson, while the ship returned to Timor for provisions. By the time Brown returned to London in 1805...
Botany Bay
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Australia's first penal colony was often called Botany Bay, its actual site was at Sydney on Port Jackson. The bay is now an important cargo port with chemical facilities and an oil refinery.
transportation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...50,000 to the American colonies, the remainder to Australia. The landing of the first convicts at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson (in preference to Botany Bay which proved unsuitable) in January 1788 was the first of a series of convict settlements...
Australia, Commonwealth of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Bay on 18 January 1788, Captain Phillip, finding it less fertile than he had anticipated, sailed a few miles into Port Jackson (now Sydney Harbour), where, on 26 January, he commenced landing 736 convicts (including 188 women) along with...
Australia Day
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Australia Day Annual national holiday in Australia, celebrated on the Monday following January 26. It commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet (carrying the first colonists) at Port Jackson, Sydney, on January 26, 1788.
Stonewall Jackson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...administration, fearing that Jackson would now advance on Washington...from the west, in cutting off Jackson. Stonewall, however, retreated...pursuers at Cross Keys and Port Republic . Seven Days Battles...Valley a complete success, Jackson joined Lee in the Seven Days...

Dictionary entries related to "Port Jackson"

Port Jackson shark
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology Port Jackson shark See HETERODONTIDAE .
Australia, Commonwealth of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...less fertile than he had anticipated, sailed a few miles into Port Jackson (now Sydney Harbour), where, on 26 January, he commenced...by 1900. The spread of wage labour in mines, factories, ports, and shearing sheds saw the rise of trade unionism during...
Heterodontidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology Heterodontidae ( Port Jackson shark , bullhead shark ; subclass Elasmobranchii , order Heterodontiformes ) A small family of marine sharks that have two dorsal...
Botany Bay
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...colony. The 1st Fleet landed there on 20 January 1788 and, finding Banks's account much exaggerated, moved on to Port Jackson, landing there at Sydney Cove. Nevertheless, the name Botany Bay became synonymous with Australia, first as a convict...
Bellinsgauzen, Faddei F.
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...navigational map shows the ice, which the expedition again approached on 17 – 18 February. In a report from Port Jackson [Sydney], Australia, to the war minister on 20 April 1820, Bellinsgauzen wrote of these approaches: Here behind...
Dean, Bashford
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...chimaeroid fishes are highly specialized offshoots from the true sharks; he presented in detail the embryology of the Port Jackson shark and the Japanese frilled shark; and he described the embryology, spawning, and nesting habits of several freshwater...
Garnot, Prosper
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...visited the southern Moluccas, New Zealand, and the island of New Guinea, and in January 1824 the Coquille went to Port Jackson for repairs. Garnot fell ill and returned to Europe on a merchantman, taking a great part of the expedition ’...
Péron, François
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...de la Tour. Dysentery broke out on board; and only a few of the scientists and crew survived. The voyage ended at Port Jackson (Sydney Harbor) on 20 June 1802. Peron, Leschenault, and Lesueur had been left behind on King Island (in Bass...
Port Republic
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Port Republic a Civil War battle...x201D;Stonewall” Jackson 's troops and Union Brig...Tyler's forces at the end of Jackson's successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign in the Civil War . Jackson's troops defeated Union forces...
Fenner, Charles Erasmus
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Fenner, Charles Erasmus (1834–1911) Confederate army officer, born in Jackson, Tennessee. Fenner was active in the defense of Port Hudson (1863), in the Atlanta campaign (1864), and at the Battle of Nashville (1864...

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Maritime quarantine versus commerce: the role of the health officer of Port Jackson in the nineteenth century.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...of epidemics in overseas ports, such as that made to the...by the Health Officer of Port Jackson, Dr Charles K. Mackellar...modifying or relaxing the port's existing quarantine...reach Sydney from Asian ports where diseases such as smallpox...
Trucks cop caning in report.(Port Jackson Partners's report on impact of trucks )(Brief Article)
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 2/17/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Port Jackson Partners has completed research...billion in savings. According to Port Jackson Partners, Australia's governments...Publication Date: 17 February 2005 PORT JACKSON PARTNERS LIMITED: NATIONAL PRESS...
PORT JACKSON
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 3/23/1999; 265 words ; AAP General News (Australia) 03-23-1999 PORT JACKSON CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES...004; Informal 1,269; Total 34,273. KEYWORD: PORT JACKSON - 46,377 enrolled. 1999 AAP Information Services...
POLLNSW PORT JACKSON
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 3/28/1999; 271 words ; ...AAP General News (Australia) 03-28-1999 POLLNSW PORT JACKSON CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES...004; Informal 1,269; Total 34,273. KEYWORD: PORT JACKSON - 46,377 enrolled. 72.03%. Final count. 1999...
Hopes for Port Jackson fading - Russell.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 10/20/2005; 446 words ; ...facilities from Sydney's Glebe Island to Port Kembla by 2008. It had previously...operations from Darling Harbour to Port Kembla by September 2006. Llew Russell...of the shipping industry. He said Port Jackson would become pretty much redundant...
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose.(Poem)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 10/1/2009; ; 426 words ; Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose Which produced more civilizations, yellow grass or green? Who made poverty legal? Who made poverty at all...
A first fleet letter from Port Jackson.
Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...rare. The letter was printed in Historical Records of New South Wales Vol. 2 Appendix E (British Library Papers). Port Jackson 14th November, 1788 I take the first opportunity that has been given us to acquaint you of our disconsolate situation...
The nature and distribution of copper, lead, and zinc in soils of a highly urbanised sub-catchment (Iron Cove) of Port Jackson, Sydney.
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Soil Research; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...catchment and discharge into Iron Cove, an embayment of Port Jackson. Iron Cove catchment has a varied land-use history...foundries (Soiling and Reynolds 1997), as well as major port operations in nearby Rozelle Bay. Timber yards, slaughterhouses...
The Governor's Noble Guest. Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The Governor's Noble Guest. Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825. By Marc Serge Riviere, translator and editor (Carlton: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1999...
Heavy metals in road dust, gully pots and parkland soils in a highly urbanised sub-catchment of Port Jackson, Australia.
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Soil Research; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...processes. Sampling area and locations The current study was conducted in Iron Cove on the southern shores of central Port Jackson, an intensely urbanised (>90%) catchment (Fig. 1). Hawthorn and Iron Cove Canals drain the catchment and...