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Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy
Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois League , North American confederation of indigenous peoples, initially comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. They gave their name to the Iroquoian branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ), which included... Read more
Elmira Elmira
Elmira , city (1990 pop. 33,724), seat of Chemung co., extreme S central N.Y., on the Chemung River; settled 1788, inc. 1864. It is a distribution and manufacturing center with plants that make electronic and fire-fighting equipment, automobile parts, and iron and steel products. The Treaty of... Read more
Stephen Russell Mallory Stephen Russell Mallory
Stephen Russell Mallory c.1813-73, U.S. Senator, secretary of the navy in the Confederacy, b. Trinidad, West Indies. He was raised in Key West, Fla., where he practiced law and was a customs official. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1851 and reelected in 1857, Mallory served until Florida seceded.... Read more
Hiawatha Hiawatha
Hiawatha , fl. c.1550, legendary chief of the Onondaga of North America. He is credited with founding the Iroquois Confederacy . He is the hero of the well-known poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Bibliography: See T. R. Henry, Wilderness Messiah (1955).... Read more
Powhatan Powhatan
Powhatan , d. 1618, Native North American chief of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, whose personal name was Wahunsonacock. He greatly extended the dominion of the Powhatan Confederacy and after the marriage (1614) of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe kept peace with the English colonists.... Read more
Confederate States of America Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America Also called the Confederacy. the eleven southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) that seceded from the United States in 1860 and 1861, thus precipitating the Civil War.... Read more
torpedo torpedo
torpedo in naval warfare, a self-propelled submarine projectile loaded with explosives, used for the destruction of enemy ships. Although there were attempts at subsurface warfare in the 16th and 17th cent., the modern torpedo had its origin in the efforts of David Bushnell, who, during the... Read more
Mahican Mahican
Mahican , confederacy of Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Mahican were of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. In the early 17th cent. they occupied both banks of the upper Hudson River extending north... Read more
Comanche Comanche
Comanche , Native North Americans belonging to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). They originated from a Basin-type culture and eventually adopted a Plains culture. They separated from the Shoshone and migrated... Read more
Fire-Eaters Fire-Eaters
FIRE-EATERS FIRE-EATERS. An outspoken group of Southern, proslavery extremists, the Fire-Eaters advocated secession from the Union and the formation of an independent confederacy as early as the 1840s. The group included a number of well-known champions of Southern sovereignty, including South... Read more

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Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History ...FOR WHY THE CONFEDERACY lost the Civil...society between democracy and authority...guerrilla warfare. Indeed, guerrilla warfare sparked sharp...Confederacy that guerrillas would be an...saw ...
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Magazine article from: Parameters ...condemned the Confederacy to Appomattox...protracted irregular warfare against a conventional...better against democracies than against...suffered the same fate: defeat. But...protracted irregular warfare conducted by local militias, ...

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