Examples of Horatio Seymour in the following topics:
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- Instead of Johnson, the Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour, chairman of the convention, after a series of failed ballots with several other candidates vying for nomination.
- The Democrats were out of favor, and their candidate Seymour had been called a traitor and a troublemaker.
- Seymour answered none of the charges made against him, but made a few key speeches.
- The voters were told that if they wanted to reopen the Civil War, they need only elect Horatio Seymour, and some spread stories of bloodshed in the South to prove that Radical Reconstruction was necessary.
- Horatio Seymour polled 2,708,744 votes against 3,013,650 for Grant, a fairly close race, but ultimately Grant carried the Electoral College and won the election.
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- Just north of Saratoga, Burgoyne won a small tactical victory over General Horatio Gates and the Continental Army in the September 19th Battle of Freeman's Farm at the cost of 600 casualties, or ten percent of the British forces.
- Mutual resentment between Patriot Major General Horatio Gates and Brigadier Benedict Arnold finally exploded into open hostility following this battle and Gates stripped Arnold of his command.
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- The Continental Congress responded to the fall of Charleston by dispatching General Horatio Gates, a celebrated hero in the Battle of Saratoga, to the South with a new army.
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- Anti-Washington
movements arose and a few soldiers even advocated replacing Washington with
General Horatio Gates, following his success at the Battles of Saratoga.
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- By
September 19th, Burgoyne won a small tactical victory against
Continental General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Freeman’s Farm, the First Battle
of Saratoga.
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- Realist writers included Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells and Horatio Alger Jr.