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    The Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Spanish: Brigada Abraham Lincoln) was the name given to the 2,800 Americans who volunteered to fight for the Spanish Republic...
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    The Lincoln Battalion (Spanish: Batallón Abraham Lincoln), the major component of what came to be known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, was the 17th (later...
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  • Abraham Lincoln has been the topic of historical speculation and research. No such discussions have been documented during or shortly after Lincoln's...
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  • Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade is a 1990 documentary film by Connie Field and Judith Montell that shares...
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  • Milton Wolff (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    University of Nevada Press. ISBN 0-87417-106-7 Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives/Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade New York Times Obituary "He Remembers Papa"...
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  • Delmer Berg (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    Brigade (nicknamed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade) during the Spanish Civil War. He was the last known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade....
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  • Robert Hale Merriman (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. Merriman was born in Eureka, California, the son...
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  • inflict such suffering on others and get away with it. He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was wounded at the Battle Of Belchite (1937). Back home in...
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  • Jack Shirai (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    activist, trade unionist, and soldier who volunteered with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight for the Republicans against the Nationalists in Spain...
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    Abraham Lincoln served as a volunteer in the Illinois Militia April 21, 1832 – July 10, 1832, during the Black Hawk War. Lincoln never saw combat during...
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  • James Yates (activist) (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    anti-fascist who fought in the Spanish Civil War as a soldier in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Before he volunteered to go to Spain to fight fascism in 1937...
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    Mosess Fishman (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was wounded during the Spanish Civil War. He was general secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Veterans' Association...
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  • covert organizational ties or actual subversive intent. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago, Illinois Action Committee to Free Spain...
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    Oliver Law (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    the USA (CPUSA) leader Claude Lightfoot. In 1936 Law joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He arrived in Spain on January 16, 1937, to fight for the Popular...
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  • Eddie Balchowsky (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    an American poet, artist, musician, composer who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Although he lost a hand, in Spain...
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    time: 43 minutes and 32 seconds. Black and white. 1938 Avec la brigade Abraham Lincoln en Espagne, Henri Cartier-Bresson ja Herbert Kline. Running time...
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    Saul B. Newton (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    anti-fascist. He served with the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (as Saul Bernard Cohen). In 1943 he was...
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    Worker and Peasant Militias Confederal militias International Brigades Abraham Lincoln Brigade British Battalion Dabrowski Battalion ILP Contingent Mackenzie-Papineau...
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    Commons has media related to International Brigades. "International Brigade Memorial Trust". "Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives". "Private Collection about German...
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    Madrid. Americans fought in units such as the XV International Brigade ("Abraham Lincoln Brigade"), while Canadians joined the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion...
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  • Steve Nelson (activist) (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    Nelson achieved public notoriety as the political commissar of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and as a leading functionary of the Communist...
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  • Albert Prago (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    published a book called Our Fight: Writings by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade which was co-edited by Alvah Bessie in which he explained the role...
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  • Alfred Chakin (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    Abraham Alfred "Chick" Chakin (December 25, 1904 – March 1938) was an American volunteer in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, an...
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    Ward Hill Lamon (category People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
    President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously absent the night Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, having been sent by Lincoln to Richmond...
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  • Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran) (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    the Spanish Civil War. He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of the International Brigades. During World War II, Bailey served...
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    Worker and Peasant Militias Confederal militias International Brigades Abraham Lincoln Brigade British Battalion Dabrowski Battalion ILP Contingent Mackenzie-Papineau...
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    Salaria Kea (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    to Akron where Kea died on 18 May 1990. Salaria Kea Biography Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. Retrieved 24 November 2013. "Salaria Kea's Spanish memoirs"...
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    are no indications of the relevance of "Bella ciao" among the partisan brigades, nor of the very existence of the 'partisan version' prior to the first...
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    Worker and Peasant Militias Confederal militias International Brigades Abraham Lincoln Brigade British Battalion Dabrowski Battalion ILP Contingent Mackenzie-Papineau...
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  • members of the Communist Party of Palestine (PKP), joined the International Brigades to fight in Spain. The movement's manifesto was written by left-wing activists...
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