Coxey's Army

Examples of Coxey's Army in the following topics:

• Coxey's Army

  • Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
  • Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
  • Officially named the "Army of the Commonweal in Christ," the march's nickname, "Coxey's Army," came from its leader and was more enduring.
  • It was the first significant popular protest march on Washington, and the expression, "Enough food to feed Coxey's Army" originates from this march.
  • The march's western section received the nickname "Kelly's Army," after California leader "General" Charles T.

• The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

  • In the Allied 6th Army Group area, the US Seventh Army assaulted across the Rhine in the area between Mannheim and Worms on March 26.
  • In the south, while Third Army headed east, the First Army headed northeast and formed the southern pincer of the Ruhr envelopment.
  • Ninth Army (assigned to Montgomery's British 21st Army Group) headed southeast forming the northern pincer, while the rest of 21st Army Group went east and northeast.
  • Army Group made its eastward thrust, General Devers′ 6th U.S.
  • The Black Forest and Baden were overrun by the French First Army. 

• The American Military Forces

  • The Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army in June 1775 and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief.
  • On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army, raising 22,000 troops from the Boston area and 5,000 from New York.
  • On June 15, 1775, George Washington was elected as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
  • As the Continental Congress increasingly adopted the responsibilities and posture of a legislature for a sovereign state, the role of the Continental Army was the subject of considerable debate.
  • Washington was never financially compensated for his service as Army Commander.

• The Bonus Army

  • The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.
  • Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks.
  • The Bonus Army marchers, with their wives and children, were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
  • The Bonus Army incident proved disastrous for Hoover's chances at re-election.
  • Discuss the demands of the Bonus Army marchers and the outcome of their campaign

• Sculpture of the Qin Dynasty

  • The Qin Dynasty is perhaps best known for the impressive Terracotta Army built to protect Qin Shihuang in the afterlife.
  • The most famous example of sculpture under the Qin Dynasty was a project commissioned during Qin Shihuang's rule known as the Terracotta Army, intended to protect the emperor after his death.
  • The Terracotta Army was inconspicuous due to its underground location and was not discovered until 1974.
  • Estimates from 2007 were that the three pits containing the Terracotta Army held more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which remained buried in the pits nearby Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.
  • The Terracotta Army consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terracotta figures of warriors and horses, buried with the first Emperor of Qin in 210 BCE.

• The Battle of Fredericksburg

  • McClellan into action, he issued orders to replace McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia.
  • Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside.
  • When the Union Army was finally able to build its bridges and cross under fire, urban combat began, and a battle raged in the city December 11–12.
  • Battle of Fredericksburg: The Army of the Potomac crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of December 13, 1862, under the command of Generals Burnside, Sumner, Hooker, and Franklin
  • Due to the Union Army's logistical and bureaucratic delays, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had set up well-fortified positions by the time of Burnside's attack.

• Mobilization and the Development of the West

  • During World War II, more than 60,000 Army nurses (military nurses were all women at the time) served stateside and overseas.
  • The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942, which served overseas in North Africa.
  • The WAAC was converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943 and recognized as an official part of the regular Army.
  • Army interface with our Chinese allies.
  • In 1943, the Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs. " The first two women to enlist in the unit were Hazel (Toy) Nakashima and Jit Wong.

• The Battle of Chattanooga

  • After winning a series of battles in the Chattanooga Campaign, the Union Army was able to invade the South.
  • In September 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland, under Major General William S.
  • The chief engineer of the Army of the Cumberland had devised a more reliable supply line to the troops in Chattanooga.
  • The loss caused division within Confederate Army leadership.
  • The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign and the Army of the Cumberland.

• The Sicilian Campaign

  • Seventh Army, Patton) and north of Syracuse (British Eighth Army, Montgomery).
  • Although the German forces prepared to defend without Italian assistance, only two of their divisions opposite the Eighth Army and one at Salerno were not tied up disarming the Italian Army.
  • However, this was not to be; although, for a while, Eighth Army was able to make relatively easy progress up the eastern coast, capturing the port of Bari and the important airfields around Foggia.
  • The German Tenth Army were allowed to get away and, in the next few weeks, were responsible for doubling the Allied casualties in the next few months.
  • As April came to an end, Army Group C, the Axis forces in Italy, retreating on all fronts and having lost most of its fighting strength, was left with little option but surrender.

• African Americans in the Military

  • African-American soldiers comprised 10 percent of the Union Army, with recruitment beginning following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
  • Lincoln opposed early efforts to recruit black soldiers, although he accepted the army's using them as paid workers.
  • Union Army setbacks in battles over the summer of 1862 led Lincoln to emancipate all slaves in states at war with the Union.
  • Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African-American ("colored") soldiers.
  • In actual numbers, African-American soldiers comprised 10 percent of the entire Union Army.