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  2. Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia

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    Wilmington on Fire, a documentary about the Wilmington insurrection directed by Christopher Everett, was released in 2015. [181] [182] David Zucchino won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (2020). The book uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries ...

  3. Wilmington campaigns - Wikipedia

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    The Wilmington campaigns were part of a Union effort to take Wilmington, North Carolina, from the Confederates. Wilmington was the last major port on the Atlantic seacoast available to the Confederacy. Fort Fisher guarded the Cape Fear River and in order to capture Wilmington, Fort Fisher had to fall. [1] [2] [3]

  4. Abjuration - Wikipedia

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    Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege. The term comes from the Latin abjurare , "to forswear".

  5. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of ...

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    Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy is a book by the American journalist and author David Zucchino. The book details the events leading up to the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 , in which white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina carried out a massacre and coup d'état .

  6. Oaths of Allegiance, etc., and Relief of Jews Act 1858

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    21 & 22 Vict. c. 48 (informally called the Oaths Bill; long title "An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration; and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion") was an 1858 Act of the UK Parliament which replaced three separate oaths of office with a single oath of allegiance to the British monarch.

  7. Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 - Wikipedia

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    The Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 (13 & 14 Will. 3.c. ) was an Act of the Parliament of England.The Act required nearly all office-holders to take the oath of abjuration against James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the throne, self-styled Prince of Wales and son of the former King James II.

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    Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!

  9. John Brown of Priesthill - Wikipedia

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    The Abjuration Act of 1662 ..was a formal rejection of the National Covenant of 1638 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643. These were declared to be against the fundamental laws of the kingdom. The Act required all persons taking public office to take the Oath of Abjuration not to take arms against the king, and rejecting the Covenants ...