Wilmington
['wilmiŋtən]
Definition
(noun.) the largest city in Delaware.
(noun.) a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River.
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Examples
- The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This will give us the same control of the harbor of Wilmington that we now have of the harbor of Mobile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Whiting of the Confederate army was in command, and General Bragg was in command of the force at Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A force of twenty-eight or thirty thousand will co-operate with you from New Bern or Wilmington, or both. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The navy had been making strenuous exertions to seal the harbor of Wilmington, but with only partial effect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Up to January, 1865, the enemy occupied Fort Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River and below the City of Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bragg has gone from Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This column took their pontoon bridges with them, to enable them to cross over to the island south of the city of Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- GENERAL: The first object of the expedition under General Weitzel is to close to the enemy the port of Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If Wilmington is captured, Schofield will go there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Both New Bern and Wilmington are connected with Raleigh by railroads which unite at Goldsboro. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If rolling-stock is not secured in the capture of Wilmington, it can be supplied from Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The first point to be attained is to secure Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These in our hands, the navy could enter the harbor, and the port of Wilmington would be sealed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the same time this move is made, I want to send a force of from six to ten thousand men against Wilmington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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