Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Vicksburg | Yes | No | No | No |
besieging | Yes | No | No | No |
Vicksburg (noun) | besieging (noun) |
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a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered | the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack |
a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves |