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The Uchi or Yuchi were a tribe of North American Indians formerly numerous in South Carolina and Georgia. Around the turn of the century the 650 survivors were united with the Creeks on the Arkansas River.
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Uffa was the first king of the East Angles. He reigned in 571.
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Ugo Foscolo was an Italian poet and patriot. He was born in 1778 at Zante and died in 1827. His first production was a drama entitled Tieste, written in 1797 which proved very popular.
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The Uigur are a Turkic people living in north west China and Kazakhstan; they form about 80% of the population of the Chinese province of Xinjiang Uygur. There are about 5 million speakers of Uigur, a language belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family; it is the official language of the province.
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The Ulema were a general body of learned men in Muslim countries. They interpreted the Koran and consequently the law. From their numbers were chosen the principal officers until their suppression in 1926.
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Ulrika Leanora the Elder was queen of Sweden. She was born in 1656 and died in 1693. She was a daughter of Frederick III, king of Denmark and in 1680 married Charles XI.
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Ulrika Leanora the Younger was queen of Sweden. She was born in 1688 and died in 1741. She was a daughter of Charles XI, and sister of Charles XII.
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Ulysses Aldrovandi was a distinguished Italian naturalist. He was born in 1522 and died in 1605. He was professor at Bologna, and established botanical gardens and museum of natural history there. He wrote a work on natural history in thirteen volumes.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American soldier, politician and the eighteenth president of the USA from 1869 to 1877. He was born in 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio and died in 1885. He attended and graduated West Point military academy, graduated in 1843 and joined the 4th US Infantry at Jefferson Barracks as a brevet second lieutenant, being commissioned a lieutenant, he fought in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and was brevetted captain in 1847 for conduct at Chapultepec. In 1854 he resigned his commission and engaged in business until 1861. He was soon after the outbreak of the American Civil War given command of the forces at Cairo, Illinois, and in 1861 seized Paducah. In 1862 he gained possession of Fort Henry and Port Donelson, strongly contested points, the surrender of which was the first brilliant victory of the national arms. For this success he was commissioned major-general. In conjunction with the forces of General Buell he defeated the Confederates at Pittsburg Landing and soon afterward was assigned to command in Tennessee. He defeated General Price in 1863 and succeeded in taking Vicksburg from Pendleton after repeated attacks. Having thus secured the Mississippi, he was appointed major-general in the regular army and placed in command of the Western army.
He gained brilliant victories about Chattanooga and was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to the newly revived rank of lieutenant-general. Leaving Sherman to conduct the chief Western army from Tennessee to the sea, he assumed control of the movements against the Confederates defending Richmond, commanded by General Lee. With dogged persistence and at great sacrifice of life he fought the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, destroying the railways which brought supplies to the Confederates, taking Petersburg in 1865 and compelling the entire command to surrender on April the 9th at Appomattox Court House, thereby ending the American Civil War.
In the period of reconstruction which followed he played a most honourable part, often being placed in difficult positions by the animosity between President Johnson and Congress. In 1868 he was unanimously nominated for President by the Republicans, was elected and served two terms, from 1868 to 1876. During his administration occurred the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, the funding of the national debt, civil service reform was inaugurated, the Treaty of Washington was negotiated with Great Britain, and specie payment was resumed in 1875. His administration as President was not wholly successful, some of his advisers proving most unworthy. He possessed an unassuming manner, yet was self-reliant and prompt in his decisions, calm and patient in all circumstances, and won the admiration of all by his moral and physical courage.
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Umberto Giordano was an Italian composer. He was born in 1867 and died in 1948. He composed Andrea Chenier.
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An umpire is someone to whose sole decision a matter in dispute between two parties is referred.
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Uncas was an American Indian. He was born about 1588 and died in 1682. He revolted from the Pequot Indians in 1635 and became chief of the Mohegans. He made treaties of peace with the colonists, and in 1637 greatly assisted Colonel Mason's expedition against the Pequots, for which he received part of their land. In 1643 he defeated Miantonomo, chief of the Narragansetts, and put him to death. He was always friendly to the whites and faithful to his treaties.
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After the close of the American War of Independence, of the expatriated Tory exiles, exceeding 30,000 in number, many fled to Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, where they formed societies called the United Empire Loyalists. These associations kept burning a bitter hatred toward the Americans, and border disturbances were kept up for a long time.
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Urban A Woodbury was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Vermont from 1894 until 1896.
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The Ursulines are a female monastic order which was formed in 1535 with the purpose of educating girls and tending for the sick and needy. It was declared a religious order under the rule of St Augustine.
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The Utes or Utahs are a North American tribe of Indians, a chief branch of the Shoshone division. They were once scattered over Colorado, New Mexico, California, Nevada and Utah by 1900 they had dwindled to 2500 distributed in Nevada, Colorado and Utah.
They were generally friendly to the whites, but following the invasion of their lands in Utah, Utah bands carried on hostilities with the Mormon invaders. Subsequently disturbances occurred between them and invading miners at Pike's Peak and they defeated Major Ormsby on the Truckee River. In 1865 large tracts of land were ceded to the United States. Later trouble arose with Black Hawk, a chief of the Pah Utes, and for several years bloody warfare followed.
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The Uzbegs are a Turki people of Uigur stock who migrated from Kashgaria to west Turkestan in the 14th century.
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The Uzbek are a town-dwelling Turkic people of Turkestan and Uzbekistan.
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Uzziah was King of Judah. He was born in 789 BC and died in 737 BC. He was the son of Amaziah. He became king at the age of sixteen and was a vigorous and able monarch who encouraged agriculture, equipped an army, fortified Jerusalem and conducted campaigns against the Philistines, Arabs and Amonites. He eventually died of leprosy.
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