Word: driven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...determined to surrender. On the third, the day when Lee's last charge on the Gettysburg heights had failed, Pemberton made terms with Grant. On the next day an army of 30,000 men and the long coveted prize, Vicksburg, fell into the hands of Grant. Johnston was also driven away by Sherman. Four days later, Port Hudson, lower down the river, surrendered to General Banks. The Mississippi was then open from source to mouth, and the Confederacy...
...dawned, and the armies for the third time faced each other at close quarters. After a hard struggle Johnson was driven back and the right of the line restored. But the afternoon was to see the great work of the day, the final attempt of Lee to break Meade's army. The place selected for an attack was the centre of the line. After a fire of artillery, to demoralize the Federal troops, the Confederates advanced. 14,000 men, led by Pickett, Wilcox and Pettigrew, rushed forward. They got separated, and not supporting each other, all were captured or compelled...
Piles will soon be driven for a new balcony and platform at the boathouse. No attempt has been made to repair the old structure since the accident occurred...
...especially hard to Harvard, namely, the prohibition against playing with other than college associations. The Harvard delegate saw its disadvantage, but there was apparently no way to obviate it, as the very facilities which Harvard enjoyed, as for instance, its proximity to good, unobjectionable base-ball competitors had driven other colleges, in their endeavor to get even, to engage with the most pernicious form of professionalism, caused by their inability to find amateurs with whom to contend. Where there were so many interested it was impossible to make exceptions, and, consequently Harvard would ask for no special exception to permit...
...worldly wisdom, they will take warning in time, and at once materially modify both the theory and practice of their conduct of athletic sports; for, if radical reforms are not speedily effected, there must ensue a conflict in which it is not hard to prophesy which side will be driven to the wall...