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Another theory postulates that the student group responsible for publishing The Rebel humor magazine designed the Colonel, as this group–known as the "Rebel Club"–was founded in 1937 shortly after the University adopted the "Rebels" nickname and featured on the magazine's masthead an illustration of the Colonel was identical to the one ...
James Smith was the subject of the 1937 book The First Rebel by Neil H. Swanson. [11] He was portrayed by John Wayne in the 1939 movie Allegheny Uprising , [ 12 ] which was based on the book. A segment in the 2006 PBS miniseries The War that Made America shows a dramatization of Smith running the Native American gauntlet, following his capture ...
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In 2010, the university changed the team mascot from Colonel Reb, "a white-goateed, cane-toting Southern plantation owner that many have criticized as racist and anachronistic," to a black bear. [24] In 2017, the Ole Miss student body government held a referendum on whether to change the mascot from the Black Bear to the Landshark. [25]
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A 1781 illustration of Continental Army soldiers during the Yorktown campaign, including a black infantryman (on the far left) from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, one of the regiments in the Continental Army with the largest number of black patriot soldiers. An estimated four percent of the Continental Army were black.
Due to the Commonwealth's relatively small black population, both the 54th Massachusetts and, subsequently, the 55th Massachusetts, were made up of free men of color recruited from other states, including Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania. The State of Ohio provided 222 recruits to the 55th Massachusetts, more than any other northern state.
The Patriot War was a conflict along the Canada–United States border in which bands of raiders attacked the British colony of Upper Canada more than a dozen times between December 1837 and December 1838.