Wilderness Campaign

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• Wilderness Campaign — Overland Campaign Ulysses S. Grant et Robert E. Lee, commandants adversaires au cours de l Overland Campaign L Overland campaign (campagne terrestre, en français), est également connue sous le nom de Grant s Overland Campaign ou Wilderness… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Wilderness Campaign — noun American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant s campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses • Regions: ↑Virginia, ↑Old Dominion, ↑Old Dominion State, ↑VA • Instance Hypernyms: ↑campaign, ↑military… …   Useful english dictionary

• Wilderness — For other uses, see Wilderness (disambiguation). Old growth European Beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro …   Wikipedia

• Wilderness Act — The Wilderness Act of 1964 (USPL|88|577) was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres (36,000 km²) of federal land. The result of… …   Wikipedia

• Wilderness Road — The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by settlers to reach Kentucky for more than fifty years. In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into central… …   Wikipedia

• Campaign to Save Native Forests — The Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.) (CSNF) was the name of a grassroots organisation which grew from a campaign started in Perth, Western Australia in 1975, as a response to the development of a woodchipping industry in the south west… …   Wikipedia

• Wilderness, Battle of the — (May 5–7, 1864) Engagement in the American Civil War. When Ulysses S. Grant planned a Union campaign to capture Richmond, Va., and advanced with 115,000 troops, he was met by a Confederate army of 62,000 under Robert E. Lee in dense thickets… …   Universalium

• Campaign to Save Roan Plateau — The Campaign to Save Roan Plateau is a coalition of conservation, recreation, sportsmen and wildlife organizations working to prevent natural gas drilling on the Roan Plateau, an area near Rifle, Colorado. The Roan Plateau is located in the… …   Wikipedia

• Wilderness Society — /ˈwɪldənəs səˌsaɪəti/ (say wilduhnuhs suh.suyuhtee) noun an Australian community based organisation the activities of which are aimed at environmental protection, formed in 1976 during the campaign to stop the damming of the Franklin River in… …  

• Overland Campaign — Part of the American Civil War Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee , respectively, opposing commanders in the Overland …   Wikipedia

• Battle of the Wilderness — The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5 ndash;7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant s 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy… …   Wikipedia