Kevin Michael Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd 1957-, Australian political leader, b. Nambour, Queensland, grad. Australian National Univ. 1981. After working (1981-88) in the ministry of foreign affairs and trade, including stints in the Australian embassies in Sweden and China, he entered politics as politics as chief of staff to Queensland Labor party leader Wayne Goss. In 1996 he ran for the Australian House of Representatives from the S Brisbane suburbs and lost, but he won in the same district in 1998 and subsequently has been reelected. In Labor's shadow cabinet as foreign affairs spokesman from 2001, he won the party leadership post in 2006. In Nov., 2007, Rudd led the Labor party back power after four consecutive Liberal-National victories and became prime minister. In 2008 he officially apologized to Australia's aborigines for the nation's past mistreatment of them.
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HISTORY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?: Vicksburg Campaign offers history lessons, tourism dollars
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Business Journal; 4/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...month and half before Vicksburg fell on July 4, 1863...arguably the greatest campaign of the Civil War, and...Raymond, Bolton, Vicksburg. It would take years...think the future of the Vicksburg Campaign and Trail is great...
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Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the river well below Vicksburg, to July 4, when the...course and outcome of the campaign. He emphasizes that...the ways in which the campaigns and battles are waged" (p. xvi), with the Vicksburg campaign being a prime example...
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Ninety-Eight Days: a Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the river well below Vicksburg, to July 4, when the...course and outcome of the campaign. He emphasizes that...the ways in which the campaigns and battles are waged" (p. xvi), with the Vicksburg campaign being a prime example...
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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, by...among the latest to be written on the Vicksburg campaign, and earns a place among...And, without the gunboats, the Vicksburg campaign would not exist as we today know...
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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi...is that one of the campaigns deemed to be among...To be sure, the Vicksburg campaign has been well served...initial efforts to take Vicksburg in the spring and summer...
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Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Military Review; 7/1/2005; ; 577 words
; VICKSBURG: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi, Michael...39.95. Michael B. Ballard's Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi details the struggle for Vicksburg, Mississippi, and its corresponding...
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Mississippi nightmare: William Loring's desperate slog to avoid capture changed the course of the Vicksburg Campaign.
Magazine article from: Civil War Times; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Federal units were within minutes of cutting his force off from Vicksburg. The Missourian had no choice but to retreat toward the Big...Unfortunately, the only open route was south, away from Vicksburg. But Loring had to move quickly. The general needed the...
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Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River.(The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...inextricably linked to the Vicksburg campaign. Shea and Winschel conclude...longest and most complex campaign, or series of campaigns, of the Civil War" (p...complexity understandable. Vicksburg Is the Key is a masterful...
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Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River/The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...inextricably linked to the Vicksburg campaign. Shea and Winschel conclude...longest and most complex campaign, or series of campaigns, of the Civil War" (p...complexity understandable. Vicksburg Is the Key is a masterful...
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Down to Vicksburg: The Nurses' Experience
Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...two-year military campaign to control the Mississippi...culminated in the battle for Vicksburg. This campaign, the...the river below. The Vicksburg campaign, from winter to mid...article explores the Vicksburg campaign from the perspective...
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Vicksburg campaign
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vicksburg campaign in the American Civil War, the fighting...spring of 1862, but an attempt to take Vicksburg, Miss., by water failed (May-June...river between Port Hudson, La., and Vicksburg. Early in Nov., 1862, Gen. Ulysses...
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Vicksburg Campaign
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Vicksburg Campaign (November 1862–July 1863...stronghold of the CONFEDERACY forces at Vicksburg in western Mississippi was the last...city. After six weeks of resistance, Vicksburg surrendered on 4 July. With its capture...
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Vicksburg in the Civil War
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...July. For the rest of the war, Vicksburg was a Union base of operations...Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg. New York: Wiley, 1997. Ballard...The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign. New York: Modern Library...
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Vicksburg, Siege of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...relieve the garrison ensured Vicksburg's capitulation. This victory...Union control. The citizens of Vicksburg long remembered the round...Bibliography Edwin C. Bearss , The Vicksburg Campaign , 3 vols., 1985–...
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Vicksburg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...U.S. possession in 1798. Vicksburg became a busy river port, and...major objective in Grant's Vicksburg campaign . The city fell July 4, 1863...Commission, whose headquarters are at Vicksburg. Nearby is the U.S. Waterways...
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