Word: crush
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next morning Lee, aware of this side movement, instead of making another charge on Hooker, left only a small force to watch that confused general, and, taking the bulk of his army, determined to crush Sedgwick's corps before he could escape or receive aid. But although the latter's line was long and thin he maintained it practically intact till aided by the fog and the lateness of the hour he was enabled to concentrate his entire command about a ford in his rear and retire across the river in the night. Hooker hearing the sound of battle from...
Sever 11 was filled to overflowing last evening with the audience assembled to hear Gen. Francis A. Palfry on "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign." The purpose which McClellan had in view when he entered upon the disastrous campaign of the Peninsular was the crushing of the Confederate forces massed in front of Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service...
...Purpose of the operations. To capture Richmond and crush the Confederate army in the Eastern zone...
...greatly benefited. The photographer can promise much better satisfaction with the class pictures if they are all taken within the next six weeks, and by getting through with this part of the work now, he can begin on the groups much earlier than usual, thus avoiding the annual crush in the spring. The whole operation of making an appointment and the subsequent sitting need not average more than half an hour and this is little enough and can certainly be spared by the average member of the senior class. We would therefore ask every member of '84 to think twice...
...disappointed man retires into himself to find in his own emotional culture what the world refuses to let him find elsewhere, or else one makes a boast of his independence for its own sake, and regards his life as a continual warfare against the wicked world that tries to crush him. The sentimental man is a subjective poet, or an aesthete, or a mystic...