Examples of Pickett's Charge in the following topics:
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- The main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
- The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire at great losses to the Confederate army.
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- Two other impeachment articles, a second perjury charge, and a charge of abuse of power failed in the House.
- With a two-thirds majority required for conviction (i.e., 67 out of 100 senators), only 45 senators voted guilty on the perjury charge and 50 on the obstruction charge.
- Clinton was, thus, 17 votes shy of being removed from office on the latter charge.
- The charges arose from an investigation by Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
- The perjury charge was defeated with 45 votes for conviction and 55 against, and the obstruction of justice charge was defeated with 50 for conviction and 50 against.
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- Zimmerman was not charged at the time of the shooting by the Sanford Police, who said that there was no evidence to refute his claim of self-defense and that Florida's stand your ground law prohibited law-enforcement officials from arresting or charging him.
- After national media focused on the tragedy, Zimmerman was eventually charged and tried in Martin's death.
- The event stirred public protests and rallies, with charges of police brutality made by protesters.
- On May 1, 2015, Gray's death was ruled to be a homicide, and legal charges were issued against the six officers involved in the incident, including that of second-degree murder.
- In June, Officer Caesar Goodson, who faced the most severe charges, was also acquitted by Williams by means of a bench trial.
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- In 1974, Nixon was convicted on charges of obstruction of justice during his infamous impeachment hearings.
- The hearings culminated in votes for articles of impeachment, on the charges of obstruction of justice.
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- Du Bois had supported Wilson in the 1916 presidential campaign and in 1918 was offered an Army commission in charge of dealing with race relations—Du Bois accepted, but he failed his Army physical and did not serve.
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- She began investigative journalism, looking at the charges given for the murders and raised more than $500 to investigate lynchings and publish her results.
- One hundred pages long, "A Red Record" launched Wells's anti-lynching campaign with the charge that "ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution. " It also documented the status of black Americans since Emancipation.
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- He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in which his lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, claimed that the truth was a legitimate defense against charges of libel, an argument that laid the foundation for the freedom of the press in America.
- In 1734, Cosby issued a proclamation condemning the newspaper's "scandalous, virulent, false and seditious reflections," and in November, Zenger was arrested and charged with seditious libel.
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- Union president Calderwood and 300 other miners were arrested and charged with a variety of crimes.
- Only four miners were convicted of any charges, and were quickly pardoned by the sympathetic populist governor.
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- That year, President Nixon dismantled the Office of Economic Opportunity (the agency in charge of the War on Poverty's key programs), transferring many of its programs to other agencies.
- From President Johnson's first speeches about the Great Society, critics charged the policies were an attempt to institute socialism.
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- To work the land, sharecroppers had to buy seed and implements, sometimes from the plantation owner who often charged exorbitant prices against the sharecropper's next season.
- The farmer could, if he desired, charge the tenant extremely high interest on the advanced pay since there were no lending laws applicable to migrant or tenant workers at the time.