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Chickasaw Bayou, Battle of
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Chickasaw Bayou, Battle of a Confederate victory in December 1862 that frustrated
Ulysses S. Grant's attempts to take
Vicksburg by the direct approach. Forces under
William T. Sherman, after some preparations, made a frontal asault on the heavily defended Walnut Hills area of Warren County, Mississippi, which was rebuffed with heavy Union casualties.
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Bayou Internet Broadens View With Live, Work, and Play Expansion Into the 318 Area Code.
PR Newswire; 11/13/2003; 700+ words
; ...MONROE, La., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayou Internet, the largest independently owned...residential and commercial markets. Previously, Bayou had serviced Monroe and the surrounding...communities reliable, local Internet support." Bayou has expanded technology to accommodate...
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Bayou Internet Breaks Into Four New Corporate Markets in Louisiana 318.
PR Newswire; 1/14/2004; 700+ words
; ...MONROE, La., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayou Internet, enabled by their recent 318...markets throughout the 318 area code. Bayou has serviced the education, banking...other communities in northern Louisiana. Bayou has upgraded its service & support...
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Bayou Announces Award of $27.6 Million Contract in Connection With Fayetteville Express Pipeline Project.
Business Wire; 6/23/2009; 700+ words
; CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- The Bayou Companies, Inc. ("Bayou"), a subsidiary of Insituform Technologies, Inc...and Pipe said, "ILVA is pleased to be working with The Bayou Companies again on another major pipeline project. We are...
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BAYOU STEEL CORP. RECEIVES OSHA PROPOSED VIOLATIONS
PR Newswire; 4/5/1995; 700+ words
; ...PLACE, La., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayou Steel Corp. (AMEX: BYX) today received...160,500. OSHA's report verified that Bayou Steel did not intentionally or knowingly...said Jerry Pitts, president and COO of Bayou Steel, adding that "while Bayou Steel...
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BAYOU STEEL CORPORATION SETTLEMENT OF OSHA WARRANT CASE
PR Newswire; 9/13/1994; 700+ words
; ...LAPLACE, La., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayou Steel Corporation (AMEX: BYX) released the following today: Bayou Steel Corporation in LaPlace, Louisiana...to conduct a warrantless inspection of Bayou Steel's mini steel mill. This inspection...
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Bayou bust puts onus on investors' due diligence.(Bayou Management LLC is being investigated )
Magazine article from: Pensions & Investments; 9/5/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The implosion of hedge fund manager Bayou Management LLC, Stamford, will prompt...hire to provide them with due diligence. Bayou, which managed about $440 million in...civil suits allege fraud was committed by Bayou principals as far back as 1998, a year...
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Bayou's Brokerage Under a Cloud.
Magazine article from: Securities Industry News; 9/5/2005; 700+ words
; Bayou Group, the collapsed Connecticut hedge fund...Conn. firm's affiliated broker-dealer, Bayou Securities LLC. On Sept. 1, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan sued the Bayou funds in a civil lawsuit, charging that...
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BAYOU STEEL CORPORATION RESPONSE TO DEQ ALLEGATIONS
PR Newswire; 6/15/1994; 700+ words
; LAPLACE, La., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayou Steel Corporation (AMEX: BYX) is aware that the...numerous allegations of environmental violations at Bayou Steel in LaPlace." Bayou Steel believes that these allegations are a direct...
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BUFFALO BAYOU: LINKING HOUSTON'S PAST AND FUTURE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...born on the shores of Buffalo Bayou. The Allen brothers' foresight...remarkable. At least seventeen bayous in Pasadena and Harris County...economic boon. Part of Buffalo Bayou was scraped and dredged into...banks. The shores of Buffalo Bayou are a veritable museum of our...
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Bayou Companies Completes Acquisition of Pipe Coating and Insulation Facility Located in Western Canada.
Business Wire; 11/2/2009; 700+ words
; NEW IBERIA, La. -- The Bayou Companies, Inc. ("Bayou"), a subsidiary of Insituform Technologies, Inc...Alberta Canada. The acquisition was effected through Bayou Perma-Pipe Canada, Ltd. ("BPPC"), a joint venture...
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Bayou
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...delta region, much human activity focused on bayous. Legendary pirate Jean Laffite used Bayou Barataria in southeastern Louisiana as his headquarters...Trace. Antebellum planters romanticized the bayous' beauty, building colonnaded mansions among...
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Bayou Steel Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Bayou Steel Corporation 138 Highway 3217 LaPlace...23591 Structural Steel Erection Contractors Bayou Steel Corporation operates a steel “...manufacturing and construction. In addition, Bayou Steel occasionally exports both billets and...
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Bayou Teche
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bayou Teche , 125 mi (201 km) long, S La., formed by tributary bayous and flowing SE to the Atchafalaya River near Morgan...km), it flows through a fertile sugarcane area. Bayou Teche was the setting for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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bayou
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bayou [Louisiana Fr.; from Choctaw bayuk =small stream], term used mainly...once part of a lake, river, or gulf and is swampy or marshy in nature. Bayou is sometimes used as a synonym for oxbow lake, a former meander in a river...
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Bayou Macon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bayou Macon , c.145 mi (230 km) long, rising in SE Ark. and flowing S into NE La. to the Tensas River. It was used as a rendezvous by the bandits Frank and Jesse James.
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