Übersetzung für 'Jayhawker' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Jayhawker State [nickname] [Kansas]

[Spitzname für Kansas, USA]geogr.

• He was captured by Jayhawker militia and sold to the Union Army before being exchanged and returned to the South following Sherman's intervention.
• Jayhawker raids against perceived civilian "Confederate sympathizers" alienated Missourians and made maintaining the peace even harder for the Unionist provisional government.
• The name "Jayhawk" comes from the Kansas Jayhawker militias during the Bleeding Kansas era of the American Civil War.
• John Brown might be the best-known participant in the violence of the late 1850s, participating on the abolitionist or Jayhawker side, but numerous groups fought for each side during the "Bleeding Kansas" period.
• Letters Morgan wrote while travelling were compiled into four books: "A Journey of a Jayhawker" (1905), "A Jayhawker in Europe" (1911), "The Near East" (1913) and "Yurrup" As Is" (1926).

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• Probably the most well known commander of this post was Charles Jennison, a notorious Jayhawker and Redleg, who commanded men who committed numerous depredations against Missourians who they assumed were all disloyal to the Union.
• As a Kansas Jayhawker, he supported and was a proponent of John Brown's movement in the time of strife leading up to the American Civil War.
• Rooks was a Red leg and a Jayhawker. This company remained at Aubry through the winter of 1862–3.
• Charles Rainsford Jennison also known as "Doc" Jennison (June 6, 1834 – June 21, 1884) was a member of the anti-slavery faction during Bleeding Kansas, a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s.
• James Montgomery (December 22, 1814 – December 6, 1871) was a Jayhawker during the Bleeding Kansas era and a controversial Union colonel during the American Civil War.

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