Borodino
Borodino , village, central European Russia, c.70 mi (110 km) W of Moscow. It was the site, on Sept. 7, 1812, of a battle between Napoleon's Grande Armée and Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov's Russian forces defending Moscow. The battle, which cost some 108,000 casualties, is described in Tolstoy's War and Peace. Napoleon entered Moscow on Sept. 14 after severely battering but not totally defeating the Russians.
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Our rebellious neighbors: Virginia's border counties during Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...WESTERN Pennsylvania's 1794 Whiskey Rebellion has achieved almost mythic status...Thomas P. Slaughter's The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American...Revolution and Steven Boyd's The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present...
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Whiskey, Rebellion, and the Religious Left
Magazine article from: Tikkun; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...western Pennsylvania-the rebellion embraced and drew energy from...the American people. "The Whiskey Rebellion" was Alexander Hamilton...worked. For generations the Whiskey Rebellion has been taught as...re likely to mistake the whiskey rebels for the forebears of...
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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 4/26/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton...scandal or "54-40 or fight," the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s is a chapter in...Revolution itself, the cause of the Whiskey Rebellion was taxation - specifically...
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The whiskey rebellion.(Flashback to ...)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...States government was tested when ,whiskey distillers in western Pennsylvania...series of uprisings known as the Whiskey Rebellion. The problem began after the Revolution...Ion distilled spirits, notably whiskey." Congress approved the tax in...
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New volunteers invigorate 16th annual Berlin Whiskey Rebellion festival
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 9/20/2009; ; 622 words
; ...though this year's 16th annual Whiskey Rebellion Heritage Festival almost didn...celebrate the Bicentennial of the Whiskey Rebellion, and it served as precursor...County Bicentennial in 1995. The Whiskey Rebellion occurred in 1794, when...
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The Whiskey Rebellion.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 1/20/2001; 665 words
; ...they could have their own whiskey stills. In 1794 the Federal government introduced a whiskey tax. In western Pennsylvania...developed into a full-scale rebellion, which was put down by...continued to distil their whiskey in isolation and free from...
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Arlington teen places in NEH's essay contest; Wrote on Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.(METROPOLITAN)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/19/2003; 700+ words
; ...Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 in establishing the power...soldiers against those involved in the Whiskey Rebellion. Although 150 individuals...support the tax [on home-brewed whiskey], he believed he needed to set...
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Days of Whiskey And Rebellion
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/3/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Independence Day let us remember the Whiskey Rebellion, with its interesting echoes...state debts. An excise tax on whiskey was considered the least objectionable...Furthermore, currency was scarce so whiskey sometimes served as currency...
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Historian Sets the Record Straight on the 'Whiskey Rebellion' at Washington College
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 11/7/2008; 538 words
; ...Memory of the So-Called 'Whiskey Rebellion'" at Washington College...misnamed Whiskey and Fries rebellions, popular uprisings during...Memory of the So-Called 'Whiskey Rebellion'" is free and open to the...
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1794 Whiskey Rebellion Toasts Unfair Excise Tax
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/3/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Independence Day let us remember the Whiskey Rebellion, with its interesting echoes...state debts. An excise tax on whiskey was considered the least objectionable...stills often were consumers. Taxing whiskey proved that taxation with representation...
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Whiskey Rebellion
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...By extinguishing the Whiskey Rebellion, the U.S. government...Preceded by shays's rebellion in 1786, and followed by fries's rebellion in 1799, the Whiskey...size. While all three rebellions were motivated by their...
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The Whiskey Rebellion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
The Whiskey Rebellion (1794) originated in a dispute over...Many of the leaders simply fled. If the Whiskey Rebellion had little military significance...August 1794, the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion marked the emergence of the...
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Whiskey
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...years and more easily transported. Whiskey played an important part in the...especially during the so-called Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Farmers in western Pennsylvania...refused to pay an unpopular tax on whiskey and attacked federal officers who...
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Fries's Rebellion
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
FRIES'S REBELLION John Fries was an auctioneer...to be known as Fries's Rebellion. He was tried and convicted...Continental Army during the whiskey rebellion of 1794. He then...replenish funds depleted by the Whiskey Rebellion and to finance...
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Whiskey (Whisky)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...the vast majority of U.S. whiskeys. The spelling "whisky...Scotch, Canadian, and other whiskeys and occasionally for some U.S. whiskeys. The word "whisky"/"whiskey" is derived from the Irish...few years later an outright rebellion erupted in Pennsylvania...
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