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The tune has been used with alternative lyrics numerous times. The University of Georgia's rally song, "Glory Glory to Old Georgia", is based on the patriotic tune, and has been sung at American college football games since 1909. Other college teams also use songs set to the same tune. One such is "Glory, Glory to Old Auburn" at Auburn University.
The Battle of Augusta was an engagement during the American Civil War that took place on September 27, 1862, in Augusta, Kentucky, between the Bracken County Home Guard (Union) and the Confederate Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiment under command of Colonel Basil W. Duke, a brother-in-law of John H. Morgan.
"Good Bye, Old Glory" is a song published on September 29, 1865, after the end of the American Civil War. The words are by L. J. Bates with music by George Frederick Root . Its subject is the end of the war and the end of army life from a soldier's point of view.
From its origins amid the American Revolution to the nightmare of 9/11, learn about the milestones marked by the red, white and blue of the American flag.
"Blessed Virgin, have mercy." [4] [note 23]— Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (14 February 1820), assassinated at the Paris Opera by Louis Pierre Louvel, a Bonapartist "If any of you have a message for the devil, give it to me, for I am about to meet him!"
Burst iron ring which put the cannon out of use, revealing the iron staves forming the barrel. Mons Meg was constructed by Jehan Cambier, artillery maker to the Duke of Burgundy. [9] It was tested at Mons in the County of Hainault in what is now Belgium, in June 1449; the duke did not take delivery of the Mons Meg until 1453. He gave the ...