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Chattanooga, Battle of (sh)




(Nov. 23-25, 1863) Decisive engagement of the American Civil War.

The battle was fought at Chattanooga, Tenn., a vital railroad junction. A Confederate army under Braxton Bragg besieged a Union army in September 1863, and to lift the siege, Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant marched on Bragg's troops. At battles on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, the Union troops forced the Confederate army to retreat. With this victory, the North was poised to split the South horizontally by marching across Georgia to the sea. See also Battle of Chickamauga.


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ramekin noun. M17.
[French ramequin of Low Dutch origin (cf. Flemish rameken toasted bread), perh. from Middle Dutch (cf. German Rahm cream, -KIN).]
A small quantity of cheese with breadcrumbs, eggs, etc., usually baked and served in a special mould. Usu. in pl. M17.
A small mould or dish in which ramekins or Other individual portions of Food are baked and served. L19.
Comb.: ramekin case, ramekin dish = sense 2 above.