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Josiah Hedges, also known as Edge, is a half-Mexican hired gunslinger who sets out for vengeance after his younger brother is killed by a group of his former comrades in the Union Army. The group is led by Edge's nemesis, Merritt Harknett, a psychotic sadist who delights in inflicting pain on others and who also seeks something in Edge's ...
In the 1850 census, New Orleans ranked as the 6th largest city in the United States, with a population reported as 168,675. [2] It was the only city in the South with over 100,000 people. By 1840 New Orleans had the largest slave market in the nation, which contributed greatly to its wealth.
This was intended to protect the city of New Orleans from Union attack from upriver. As the Union fleet took the city by sailing in from below, the fortification was never used. After the capture of New Orleans , U.S. forces garrisoned and expanded the fortifications to defend against a Confederate counter-attack, which never came.
Set within the fictional city of New Bordeaux, based on New Orleans, in 1968, the game follows former criminal and Vietnam veteran Lincoln Clay, who is forced to return to a life of crime to help his adoptive family settle problems with the local branch of the Mafia. After the Mafia betrays and murders his family, Lincoln embarks on a quest for ...
The eponymous character, Yancy Derringer, is an adventurer and gambler.He is a former Confederate Army Captain who has returned to New Orleans, Louisiana, [1] in 1868, three years after the end of the American Civil War, during the southern Reconstruction Era.
Shrewsbury Cemetery, historically known as Camp Parapet Cemetery, is an old burial ground near New Orleans, Louisiana, on the site of a Confederate military camp during the American Civil War. The cemetery is the burying ground of Ross Church and First Zion Church, both located nearby. It is also sometimes known as First Zion Cemetery.
A memorial to the 1811 German Coast uprising of slaves, located at the Whitney. Quentin Tarantino made a film Django Unchained (2012) about a slave uprising. A scene was filmed in the rebuilt blacksmith's shop at Whitney Plantation. [6] The Atlantic magazine made a short documentary video about the museum in 2015, Why America Needs a Slavery ...
New Orleans has served as the backdrop for a number of films with iconic turns in films such as Gone With the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Little New Orleans Girl (1956), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), Little New Orleans Girl (1978), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Little New Orleans Girl (2004), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and The ...