Getty, J. Paul
Getty, J. Paul

Gettysburg


Definition: Meaning of, Gettysburg in English to English dictionary.

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  1. also Battle of Gettysburg a place in Pennsylvania where a very important battle in the American Civil War took place in July, 1863. Many men were killed on both sides, but the battle led the way to the Union winning the war.
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  • Battle of Gettysburg (noun)
    1. 1863 a battle of the American Civil War ; the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union
  • Gettysburg Address (noun)
    1. November 19, 1863 a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Gettysburg Address, the
    1. a famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He expressed his grief for the soldiers killed in the American Civil War, and talked about the principles that they died for, in words that are often remembered by Americans: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ... We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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