Confederacy


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Synonyms for Confederacy

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Synonyms for Confederacy

an association, especially of nations for a common cause

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Synonyms for Confederacy

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In 2001, a delegation of about 30 from the United Daughters of the Confederacy came to Liverpool to mark the 100th anniversary of his death
A year ago, British Columbia chiefs showed up in force at a December confederacy held in Ottawa and attempted to force the organization to follow the rules for voting as set out in the charter.
National Chief Phil Fontaine sent a letter to all First Nation chiefs and councils on March 18, announcing that "the next Confederacy of Nations to be held at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 18, 19, 20, 2004 will be conducted in accordance with Article 11 of the AFN Charter."
The Tredegar Gun Foundry, which produced 1,000 cannon for the Southern Confederacy during the Civil War, provided an historic setting for a multi-media presentation of images of Richmond, accompanied by music from the interracial One Voice Choir.
It pitted the Northern states (the Union) against the 11 Southern states of the Confederacy.
Bush most closely resembles is the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis.
Given the smaller population of the Confederacy, such losses were not supportable.
The lead story in the September 2002 issue was written by a woman who says, "My children and I are Oneida citizens of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in upstate New York," whose Bureau of Indian Affairs agent "has created a dictatorship."
Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South.
Critics of honoring the Confederacy also point out that its army was in rebellion against the U.S.
Two of President Bush's Cabinet nominees--Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft and the prospective Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton--are being asked to explain their praise of the Confederacy.
Despite the Confederacy's handicaps in creating a navy, its embryonic fleet came tantalizingly close to upsetting the Federal navy's superiority in March and April of 1862.
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