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Vicksburg Campaign(encyclopedia)
Normandy Campaign(encyclopedia)
Dardanelles Campaign(encyclopedia)
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campaign 1, noun(dictionary)
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zombie (iou) and Petersburg Campaign (sh)


zombie (iou)



zombie noun & verb. E19.
[Of Bantu origin: cf. JUMBY.]
A. noun.
Orig., a snake-deity in voodoo cults of or deriving from W. Africa and Haiti. Now (esp. in the W. Indies and southern US), a soulless corpse said to have been revived by Witchcraft. E19.
A dull, apathetic, unresponsive, or unthinkingly acquiescent person. colloq. M20.
In the war of 1939-45, a man conscripted for Home defence. Canad. Military slang (derog.). M20.
A long mixed drink consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice. M20.
b. verb trans. Foll. by out: exhaust; disorientate. M20.
zombie-like adjective characteristic of or resembling a zombie; lifeless, unfeeling: M20.
zombi'esque adjective = zomboid L20.
zombifi'cation noun (colloq.) the process of turning somebody into a zombie L20.
zombified adjective (colloq.) made into a zombie; dull, apathetic: L20.
zombiism noun M20.
zomboid adjective (colloq.) zombie-like L20.

Petersburg Campaign (sh)




(1864-65) Series of military operations in southern Virginia at the end of the American Civil War.

The rail centre of Petersburg, Va., was a strategic defense point near the Confederate capital of Richmond. In June 1864 the Union army began a siege of both cities, and each side built fortifications 35 mi (56 km) long. Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee held the cities, but supplies were scarce and Lee's 50,000 troops were immobilized by lack of horses. In April 1865 the 120,000 Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant drove the Confederates behind Petersburg's inner defenses, forcing the evacuation of both cities. Soon thereafter the Confederates surrendered at Appomattox Court House.