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    The Wilmington campaigns were part of a Union effort to take Wilmington, North Carolina, from the Confederates. Wilmington was the last major port on the...
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    The Battle of Wilmington was fought February 11–22, 1865, during the American Civil War, mostly outside the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, between...
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    The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d'état and a massacre which...
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    Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina...
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    Second Battle of Fort Fisher (category Wilmington campaigns)
    by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War in January 1865...
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  • Fort Branch (category Wilmington campaigns)
    of artillery were stationed at the fort to prevent Union access to the Wilmington-Weldon Railroad Bridge. On December 12, 1864, members of the 2nd Regiment...
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    American Civil War Operations in Mobile Bay Battle of Mobile Bay Wilmington campaigns First Battle of Fort Fisher Second Battle of Fort Fisher Formosan...
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    First Battle of Fort Fisher (category Wilmington campaigns)
    American Civil War, when the Union tried to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major Atlantic port. Led by Major General...
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    couple married on August 27, 1966. After the wedding, the Bidens moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden was on the New Castle County Council. The couple...
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  • Hope:The Wilmington Campaign., pages 471-473. Campbell, CA.: Savas Publishing Company. ISBN 1-882810-09-0. Moore, Mark A. The Wilmington Campaign and the...
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    wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Engagement at Fort Caswell Wilmington campaigns First Battle of Fort Fisher Second Battle of Fort Fisher...
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  • - December: Wilmington Campaigns by Union forces begin in area during the American Civil War. 1865 - February 11–22: Battle of Wilmington fought; Union...
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    heat races. Gangitano, Alex (July 22, 2024). "Harris to visit Wilmington for campaign after Biden drops out". The Hill. Nexstar Media Group. Archived...
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    ACRONYM, where he would advise an anti-Trump digital campaign. Plouffe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He is from a working-class Roman Catholic...
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  • Ted Blunt (category Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware)
    political career in the state of Delaware included serving 16 years as a Wilmington District Councilman and eight years as city council president. He was...
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    Wilmington, North Carolina, was a major port for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It was the last port to fall to the Union Army (February...
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    Joseph Carter Abbott (category Politicians from Wilmington, North Carolina)
    newspaper editor and businessman. He also served as collector of the port of Wilmington, inspector of posts along the eastern line of the southern coast during...
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  • Rainbow Bluff Expedition (category Wilmington campaigns)
    The Rainbow Bluff Expedition took place on December 9, 1864 during the American Civil War. The Confederate water mines caused the Union naval force to...
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  • The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Wilmington (February 11 to 22, 1865) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is...
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    October 5, 1944) was an American newspaper owner and editor who lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. With his brother, Frank G. Manly, as co-owner, he published...
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    sometimes referred to as Wilmington-New Castle Airport, or to a lesser extent Wilmington/Philadelphia Regional Airport and Greater Wilmington Airport) is an airport...
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    Republican's reelection campaigns and deny them the ability to run on immigration as an issue. Biden has since promised to campaign "every day" on Republican's...
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  • Fisher and Wilmington Campaign, 1864–1865. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. Moore, Mark A. Wilmington Campaign and the...
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    Valerie Biden Owens (category American campaign managers)
    brother's political campaigns. She was the campaign manager during all of his Senate elections and for his 1988 and 2008 presidential campaigns, as well as a...
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    American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865. The...
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    After the end of the war, Ames was mustered out on September 20, 1865, at Wilmington, North Carolina. Ames said of his reason for fighting the war: Slavery...
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    agreed to headline fundraising events for the organization. At a campaign stop in Wilmington, North Carolina, on August 9, Donald Trump said that Hillary...
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    confirmed the restructuring and compared it to restructuring early in the campaigns of John Kerry in 2004 and John McCain in 2008. On November 2, Harris delivered...
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    Matt Meyer (category Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware)
    presidential campaign in 1988 while in high school at the Wilmington Friends School. He then worked on the upstart, successful, 1990 gubernatorial campaign of Bruce...
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  • highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Wilmington Campaign. Born on January 17, 1834, in Bath, Maine, Verney was living in Portland...
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