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Gadsden   /gˈædzdən/   Listen
Gadsden

noun
1.
An industrial town in north central Alabama.





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"Gadsden" Quotes from Famous Books



... assume command reached Jackson, he raised a volunteer force in Tennessee from among his old soldiers. With these and the troops left by Gaines he marched into Florida. On the site of the Negro fort he built Fort Gadsden. He then advanced to the Bay of St. Marks, defeating the few Seminoles whom he encountered. On April 7, he raised the American flag there in place of the standard of Spain. Two Seminole chiefs who had taken refuge on an American vessel ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson
... posted at Cannon's Bridge, thus preventing the inhabitants of Cannonsborough from entering the city. A fourth, partly from the country and partly from the neighboring localities in the city, was to rendezvous on Gadsden's Wharf and attack the upper guard-house. A fifth, composed of country and Neck negroes, was to assemble at Bulkley's Farm, two miles and a half from the city, seize the upper powder-magazine and then march down; and a sixth was to assemble at Denmark Vesey's and obey ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various


Words linked to "Gadsden" :   Camellia State, al, Alabama, town, Heart of Dixie


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