Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From this time all the crews are to row daily on the river...
...great is not due to any superiority of force or ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, it perfectly commanded that great avenue of supply. No transport could pass, and only ironclads running by at night could escape destruction at the hands of the frowning batteries crowning the hills for several miles along the river. Grant, with a powerful army, lay two hundred and fifty miles...
...four class crews rowed on the river Saturday. The 'varsity was unable to row on account of the absence of Capt. Perkins...
...Bowdoin College crew, which made the fastest time on record in the yearly class races on the Androscoggin River, will represent Bowdoin in the inter-college regatta at Saratoga next July...
...been decided to row the next class race of the University of Pennsylvania over the national course on the Schuylkill river, on Saturday, May 3. The race will be rowed in four-oared gigs, and will be contested by crew of the classes of '84, '85, '86 and '87, and the medical school...