The Union military commander for Ohio was General Ambrose Burnside, a former commander of the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The attorney general and the secretary of state threatened to resign if President Buchanan gave in to South Carolina's demands.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

After the general's first victory, New York political leader Thurlow Weed happened to meet Taylor's brother on a Hudson River steamboat.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

In the United States, higher fuel prices come just as General Motors and Chrysler show signs of recovery after their reorganizations.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

Among other things, it calls on the secretary-general to appoint a special representative to lead efforts to end sexual violence.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

But Anne Neal from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says higher prices do not guarantee a better general education.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The big three automakers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - told Congress that they needed loans or they faced bankruptcy.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Weed thought General William Henry Harrison, one of the candidates in 1836, might be the man the Whigs needed.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

He had been a teacher, a college president, and a general in the Union army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T.J.Jackson of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

But it also represents the result of higher birth rates among Hispanics in the United States compared to the general population.

VOA: special.2011.03.14

In the House of Commons this afternoon, the prime minister,Mr.Churchill,said: 'What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over.

VOA: special.2011.06.09