vicksburg

📖 中文释义

  1. 维克斯堡
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves
  2. n. a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered