Army of the James
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Army of the James a force of 33,000 men led by Maj. Gen.
Judah Benjamin at Bermuda Hundred, May 6–7, 1864, in conjunction with Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant's
Wilderness to Petersburg Campaign. The Union forces succeeded in driving Confederate brigades from the depot and cut the Richmond–Petersburg Railroad at Port Walthall Junction, Virginia.
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Ethnic Violence on Guadalcanal
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Online 03-21-1999 Ethnic Violence on Guadalcanal HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP...centers on Honiara, a port built on Guadalcanal by U.S. Marines that has turned into...training in the jungle by a shadowy Guadalcanal rebel army. A gang raided a police...
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Profile: Aid for US Marines during battle of Guadalcanal by natives of the Solomon Islands
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Aid for US Marines during battle of Guadalcanal by natives of the Solomon Islands Host...ashore on the then-obscure island of Guadalcanal. The battle that followed lasted six...of the battle already are gathered on Guadalcanal to mark the anniversary. Martin Clemens...
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SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS CELEBRATE GUADALCANAL ASSAULT
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 9/14/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the 1st Marine Division's landing on Guadalcanal during World War II. Master Sgt. Steve...Marine) Corps, you hear all about Guadalcanal and the sacrifice made here. It's...Islands located on the eastcoast of Guadalcanal. More than 100 people attended, including...
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Memories of war on Guadalcanal Series: VOYAGE OF MEMORIES
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/15/1988; ; 700+ words
; Second of a series GUADALCANAL, Solomon Islands "Rust in peace...World War II wreckage is gone from Guadalcanal, we later learned, because the...to Singapore. One of the first Guadalcanal fighter airstrips built by the Marines...
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REMEMBERING GUADALCANAL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...World War II battle for the island of Guadalcanal. At 95, Mlodzianowski stands erect...for the Marines!'" The battle for Guadalcanal has been too often neglected as a part...has a personal stake in the story of Guadalcanal. "I know I'm getting old," he...
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No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal: The Memoir of Gen. Merrill B Twining USMC
Magazine article from: Airpower Journal; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal: The Memoir of Gen. Merrill B. Twining...reading Merrill Twining's account of the Guadalcanal campaign, one realizes the Marines...high and dry" or, in the case of Guadalcanal, "low and wet." No Bended Knee is...
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BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL
Magazine article from: Sea Classics; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...attempts to reinforce their troops on Guadalcanal. In the early part of November, American...planning a large scale landing operation on Guadalcanal. On 12 November, Adm. William Halsey...that had been sighted steaming toward Guadalcanal. The Japanese fleet's position and...
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Guadalcanal leaders give PM 14 days.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 7/23/2007; 515 words
; ...23 JULY 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) -- Guadalcanal leaders have given Solomon Islands...on Friday after a meeting in Gorou, Guadalcanal Plains. It was said to have been attended by all the Guadalcanal parliamentarians. One of the meeting...
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50 Years Later, Vets Shed Tears On Guadalcanal
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/8/1992; 700+ words
; GUADALCANAL, Solomon Islands The heat was oppressive...just as they were when the battle of Guadalcanal began a half-century ago. Hundreds...when more than 18,000 Marines invaded Guadalcanal and neighboring islands and began a...
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Horse out of the barn Belkin puts Guadalcanal's future in Kentucky hands
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/12/1995; ; 700+ words
; Guadalcanal, a horse based at Suffolk Downs who...B.E. Stable, sold 90 percent of Guadalcanal to Donald Dizney, a prominent breeder...the $300,000-$400,000 range. Guadalcanal, a son of Copelan, out of a Sunny...
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Guadalcanal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Guadalcanal ETHNONYMS: Guadalcanar, Kaoka Orientation...Identification. Among the peoples inhabiting Guadalcanal Island, one of the Solomon Islands...length and 48 kilometers in breadth, Guadalcanal is one of the two largest Islands of...
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Guadalcanal Campaign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN. To check the Japanese advance and open the way for...Alexander A. Vandegrift's First Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal and nearby Tulagi, scattering small Japanese forces on both...
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Guadalcanal, Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Guadalcanal, Battle of (1942–43).The Guadalcanal campaign, unexcelled for sustained violence on land...naval victory at the Battle of Midway . King targeted Guadalcanal, a jungle‐entangled island ninety miles...
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Guadalcanal campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Guadalcanal campaign (see Map 47). This was...troops of their Seventeenth Army to wrest Guadalcanal from the marines. But throughout the...x2014;slowly gained the upper hand. Guadalcanal: Build-up of Japanese and American...
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Coast Watchers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...commander. As American plans to land on Guadalcanal in the Solomons matured the information...US marines were ashore there and on Guadalcanal other Coast Watchers on Bougainville...In the months of bitter fighting for Guadalcanal that followed these agents operated...
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