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Gunboat Diplomacy Could Be A Bad Dream For The Church Crossword Clue

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39%9 Location where the USS Cairo, a Civil War gunboat, is preserved
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• 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

• a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered

39%8 Holes on a gunboat for firing cannons
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