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67 matches to White Mountain
Putnam. American General at Bunker Hill. “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.”
Roses, War of. 1455-85. York (white) vs Lancaster (red) for English throne. Lancaster rule ended. Henry VII (Tudor/Lancaster) married Elizabeth (York). Bosworth Field. Plantagenet.
Russian Civil War. 1918-22. Trotsky’s Red Army defeat White counter-revolutionaries. Baltic liberated.
Scalawags. White southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
South Africa. 1910 Britain unites possessions: Cape of Good Hope + Natal + Orange Free State + Transvaal = Union of South Africa. Constitution included white supremacy. 1920 +German South-West Africa by mandate. 1948 Apartheid. 1961 = Republic of South Africa; left Commonwealth. 1990 -Namibia 1994 ANC gains power.
Storm, Theodor. 1817-88. German Realist writer. Rider of the White Horse 1838. Pole Poppenspäler 1874.
Tower of London. 1066- Palace for William I. Used as prison and garrison at later dates. White Tower 1078.
Turner, Nat. 1800-31. US slave. Led revolt 1831, killing 51 whites. Repressive laws vs slaves enacted.
Union Jack. 1606. English St. George (red cross) + Scottish St. Andrew (white diagonal). 1801 + Irish St. Patrick (red diagonal).
Utrillo, Maurice. 1883-1955. Montmartre painter. Sacre Coeur 1937. White Period 1908-14.
Westmeath Act. 1871. Declared Ribbonism illegal. Whiteboys.
White, E. B. 1899-1985. US writer, Charlotte’s Web 1952. Revised Strunk’s Element’s of Style 1959.
White, Patrick. 1912-90. Australian novelist, activist. The Aunt’s Story 1948.
White Australia Policy. 1901-72. Anti-non-European immigration policies.
Whiteboys. 1760. Irish peasants harass landlords, tax collectors, Protestant clergy. 1860-85. Secret Ribbonist movement.
Whitefield, George. 1714-70. English evangelist, founder of Calvinistic Methodist Church. Stimulated 18C religious revival.
Whitehall Palace. 1240. By Burgh. Burned 1697.
Whitehead, Alfred. 1861-1947. English mathematician/philosopher. Metaphysical theory of reality. With Russell wrote Principia Mathematica 1913. Process and Reality 1929.
Whitehead, Robert. 1823-1905. British engineer. Torpedo 1866.
White House. 1792 US president’s Neoclassical residence by Hoban. Burned by British, 1814.
White Lotus Rebellion. 1796-1804. China. Buddhists vs Manchu. Suppressed. Showed Ch’ing decline.
White Plains, Battle. 1776. Washington retreats before British advance.
White Revolution. 1950-79. Iran land reform movement of Shah ended by Islamic Revolution.
White Terror. 1815. Against Jacobins and Bonapartists.
White Volunteer Army. 1917-18. Unsuccessfully opposed Bolsheviks.