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Yakubu Gowon
Yakubu Gowon , 1934-, Nigerian head of state. After entering the Nigerian army in 1954, he advanced (1966) to battalion commander. After Nigeria's second bloody coup in 1966, he was appointed commander in chief of the armed forces and head of the military government. The army put down (1967-70) the ... Read more
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu , 1933-, Nigerian general and secessionist. Of Igbo background, he joined (1957) the Nigerian army and rose to become (1966-67) military governor of E Nigeria. That region seceded (1967) from Nigeria as the Republic of Biafra , with Ojukwu as head of state. He held offic... Read more
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb 1823-62, American lawyer, b. Jefferson co., Ga.; brother of Howell Cobb. Admitted to the bar in 1842, he edited 20 volumes of the Georgia supreme court reports (1849-57), prepared A Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Georgia (1851), and compiled (1858-61) a new st... Read more
Enugu
Enugu , city (1991 est. pop. 279,000), SE Nigeria. It is a diversified industrial center and a road and rail hub. Furniture, ceramics, textiles, shoes, asbestos, cement, oxygen and acetylene gases, and steel are the chief products. Enugu developed as a mining town after the discovery of coal in 1909... Read more
Muhammad Gaafur al- Nimeiry
Muhammad Gaafur al- Nimeiry , 1930-, Sudanese army officer and politician. Early active in the Sudanese nationalist movement, he was temporarily expelled from high school (1948) after leading a student strike against British rule. He attended military college and served in the army, where he rose to... Read more
Bougainville
Bougainville , volcanic island (1990 est. pop. 154,000), c.3,880 sq mi (10,050 sq km), SW Pacific, largest in the Solomon Islands chain. With Buka and smaller neighboring islands, it forms an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea . Bougainville is rugged and densely forested. There are several good... Read more
Trans-Dniester Region
Trans-Dniester Region or Transnistria, region (2004 preliminary pop. 555,000), E Moldova, between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border. A narrow territory some 120 mi (195 km) long but barely 20 mi (32 km) across at its widest, the Trans-Dniester Region has a mainly Russian and Ukrainian... Read more
Francis Preston Blair
Francis Preston Blair 1821-75, American political leader and Union general in the Civil War, b. Lexington, Ky., son of Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876). A St. Louis lawyer, Blair led the Free-Soil party in Missouri in 1848, served as state legislator (1852-56), and as Congressman (1857-59; June,... Read more
James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow , 1820-67, American editor and statistician, b. Charleston, S.C. He became (1844) editor of the Southern Quarterly Review. In 1846 he went to New Orleans, where he began publishing the monthly De Bow's Review. He was an ardent secessionist, and his magazine helped ... Read more
William Selby Harney
William Selby Harney 1800-1889, American general, b. Haysboro, near Nashville, Tenn. He entered the army in 1818 and gained a colonel's rank in the Florida campaigns against Native Americans. Ranking cavalry officer under Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, Harney was disliked by that general, who a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Secessionist"

Texas v. White
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...the Union, whether the acts of the secessionist governments had legal effect after...the United States. The defeat of the secessionist Texas regime left Texas without a lawful...The contract made by the illegal secessionist government with White and other bondholders...
Civil Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...be distinguished: revolutions and secessionist revolts . In a revolution, the rebels...of revolutionary civil wars. In a secessionist revolt, the rebels seek not to take...x2013; 1970) are examples of secessionist revolts. A further distinction among...
James Henry Hammond
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...attended the Nashville Convention of Southern States as a secessionist. Hammond's unwillingness to ally himself with either the...senator, to the dismay of South Carolinians, he abandoned his secessionist views, for he had become convinced since 1850 that most...
Mizoram
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...became a union territory in 1972 and a state in 1986. Secessionist factions have been active in Mizoram; before the creation of Bangladesh , India accused Pakistan of aiding secessionist movements in the area. The Mizo rebellion was officially...
Nathaniel Lyon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...arsenal. He immediately broke up Camp Jackson, where the secessionist governor, Claiborne F. Jackson , had quartered the state...Arkansas advanced into Missouri and was joined by Missouri's secessionist militia, Lyon attacked them at Wilson's creek, Aug...
Bougainville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Japanese stronghold in the Solomons. It became part of Papua New Guinea in 1973, despite strong secessionist sentiment. A bloody secessionist uprising, begun in the late 1980s, persisted through much of the 1990s; in 1998 a cease-fire...
Davis, Jefferson
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...x201C; fire-eater ” that South Carolina secessionist Rhett Barnwell Butler was. He did not favor immediate secession...defenses of slavery or states rights, as another reluctant secessionist, James Henry Hammond, was. Davis ’ s major contribution...
Republic of Biafra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Republic of Biafra secessionist state of W Africa, in existence from May 30, 1967, to Jan...where they had migrated in order to engage in commerce. The secessionist state was led by Lt. Col. Chukuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and included...
Crimea
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...autonomy. This autonomist line was replaced by a pro-Russian secessionist movement that was the most influential political force between...Meshkov was elected Crimean president in January 1994. The secessionist movement collapsed between 1994 and 1995 due to internal...
Joseph Emerson Brown
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...owned Western and Atlantic Railroad, and improved the militia system. Though Brown consistently maintained proslavery and secessionist attitudes, he was in constant conflict with the Confederate government: he was nearly fanatical in adhering to the doctrine...

Dictionary entries related to "Secessionist"

Texas v. White
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Texas to prevent payment on federal bonds disposed of by the secessionist state government in payment of supplies for the Confederacy...secession was void. But the Court denied the power of the secessionist government to dispose of state property for purposes of rebellion...
Essex Junto
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Timothy Pickering, they did not support the New England secessionist movement in the aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase, which...the above mentioned John Lowell) tried to crystallize the secessionist sentiment in New England, but other members of the Junto...
Perryville, Battle of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...OF PERRYVILLE, BATTLE OF (8 October 1862). After Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg had attended the inauguration of the secessionist governor of Kentucky, he gathered his scattered army to form a junction with reinforcements, commanded by Gen. Edmund...
Spanish Conspiracy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Louisiana. He won some commercial privileges for the West, took an oath of allegiance to Spain, and became an agent in secessionist intrigue. Later, Wilkinson joined forces with a disaffected Aaron Burr, who had treasonous plans for a vast empire in...
Union Sentiment in Border States
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Missouri rallied to the Union cause, and by September, Kentucky also openly sided with the North in its struggle against the secessionist South. Unionist sentiment ran strongest in the cities and in communities accessible to railroads and navigable rivers...
Brown, Alexander Crum
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...26 March 1838; d . Edinburgh, 28 October 1922) Chemistry, Physiology . Crum Brown was the son of Rev. John Brown, a Secessionist minister, and Margaret Crum. His uncle, Walter Crum, was a chemist and fellow of the Royal Society. He went to Mill...
Pettigrew, James Johnston
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...1828–63) Confederate army officer, born in North Carolina. Pettigrew trained as a lawyer and became an ardent secessionist as the Civil War )drew near. After Fort Sumter (1861), he enlisted in Hampton's Legion . His brigade attacked Union...
Liberal Party
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...had a strong appeal for French Canadians. With its power base in Quebec, the Party suffered from the Québecois secessionist demands, and failed to win federal office after 1984. It endorsed the all-party constitutional proposals of 1992 designed...
Robert E. Lee's Farewell to his Army (10 April 1865)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Scott to take command of the armies of the Union to put down a rebellion by a number of southern states. An avowed anti-secessionist who had freed his slaves long before, Lee nonetheless remained loyal to his native Virginia and refused, instead offering...
Cummings v. Missouri
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...office, to take an oath that they had never given aid to the rebellious Confederate states or expressed sympathy with the secessionist cause. The requirement, ruled the Court, violated the federal constitutional prohibition of bills of attainder —...

Thesaurus entries related to "Secessionist"

breakaway
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus breakaway • adjective  a breakaway group synonyms : separatist, secessionist, schismatic, splinter; rebel, renegade.

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March sets stage for secessionist scheming
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 3/28/2005; 700+ words ; ...Progressive Party (DPP) and other secessionist groups managed to organize a massive...Instead, it further exposes the secessionist forces' attempt to misuse people power to pursue their secessionist agenda. Although organizers billed...
Xinhua commentary urges vigilance against "Taiwan independence"secessionist forces creating new tension across Taiwan Straits
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/27/2005; 700+ words ; ...vigilance against "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces creating new tension across...vigilance against "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces creating new tension across...commentary says, "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces and the ruling Democratic Progressive...
Secessionist moves suffer setback
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 4/11/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...have emerged in Taiwan to help contain secessionist activities since the National People...Taiwan, although the DPP and other secessionist groups have tried to distort the Anti...some were even forced to side with secessionist forces. With an emerging consensus...
Expert denounces "secessionist remarks" of Taiwan authority leader
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/23/2006; 631 words ; Expert denounces "secessionist remarks" of Taiwan authority leader...authority leader Chen Shui-bian's secessionist activities after he made "Taiwan...of the danger of the escalated 'secessionist activities' promoted by this...
Overseas Chinese blast Taiwan authority leader for secessionist move
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...Chinese blast Taiwan authority leader for secessionist move BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua...leader Chen Shui-bian for his latest secessionist move, accusing him of acting against...should rise to condemn this act with a secessionist nature, he added. The Coalition for...
Chinese communities in Japan condemn Chen Shui-bian's secessionist remarks
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/12/2007; 433 words ; ...Japan condemn Chen Shui-bian's secessionist remarks TOKYO, March 12 (Xinhua...called "four wants and one no" secessionist remarks. Chen said recently that he...constitutional reforms, and to accelerate secessionist activities. On behalf of more than...
Investigators reportedly find links of illegal weapons with Indian secessionist groups.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 7/1/2006; 621 words ; ...tribal persons and huge arms with Indian secessionist groups. The agencies were further...agents about their involvement with secessionist groups across the border. They reportedly...intelligence source said some eight Indian secessionist outfits are active along Bangladesh...
Taiwan leader's remarks reveal secessionist nature: scholar
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/22/2006; 523 words ; Taiwan leader's remarks reveal secessionist nature: scholar BEIJING, Feb. 21...Unification Guideline" are completely secessionist remarks and have revealed his ulterior...Chen is attempting to stir up the secessionist sentiments in Taiwan and create confrontations...
China "opposes any platform" for Dalai Lama's secessionist activity
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/24/2009; 426 words ; ...opposes any platform" for Dalai Lama's secessionist activity BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua...or a platform for the Dalai Lama's secessionist activity, Foreign Ministry spokesman...providing support or a platform for his secessionist activities. He said China also opposed...
A Vienna Secessionist and his misfortunes
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/21/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Herald Tribune 06-21-2008 A Vienna Secessionist and his misfortunes Byline: Roderick...Maria Auchentaller (1865-1949): A Secessionist on the Borders of the Empire," curated...erroneously credited to the Viennese Secessionist Koloman Moser but now re-assigned...