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    The Lincoln Battalion (Spanish: Batallón Abraham Lincoln) was the 17th (later the 58th) battalion of the XV International Brigade, a mixed brigade of...
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    Saklatvala Battalion and the mostly North American Lincoln Battalion. It also included two non-English-speaking battalions, the Balkan Dimitrov Battalion and...
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    Washington Battalion – the second U.S. battalion. Later merged with the Lincoln Battalion, to form the Lincoln-Washington Battalion. Hans Beimler Battalion – mostly...
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  • Milton Wolff (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the last commander of the Lincoln Battalion of XV International Brigade, and a prominent communist. He was born...
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  • British Battalion was attached to XV International Brigade, XV IB. The other battalions were the US Lincoln Battalion, the crack Balkan Dimitrov Battalion, and...
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    Oliver Law (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    Republic in the Spanish Civil War. He was the commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion for several days and commander of its Machine Gun Company for much...
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  • renamed and the Lincoln Militia, with three battalions came into being, some 849 strong. By 1794, Butler was a full colonel with four battalions reporting 976...
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  • Hill", the death count was high. The British Battalion lost 225 of its 600 men and the Lincoln Battalion lost 125 out of 500. The earliest known version...
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  • Songs of the Lincoln Brigade is a 1940 album by several members of the Almanac Singers: Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes and Pete Seeger, along...
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  • Robert Hale Merriman (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. Merriman was born in Eureka, California...
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  • Ontario, as the 19th Battalion Volunteer Militia (Infantry) Canada. Redesignated on 28 September 1866, as the 19th Lincoln Battalion of Infantry. Redesignated...
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    98th Battalion (Lincoln & Welland), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 98th Battalion was authorized on...
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  • song was known in the United States by the 1930s; it was sung by the Lincoln Battalion, a unit of American volunteers who fought on the republican side in...
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    Protesters at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Protesters marching in the street. Abraham Lincoln Battalion veterans marching from the Lincoln Memorial....
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    William Aalto (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    1915 – June 11, 1958) was an American soldier and member of Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for...
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    whose second husband Joe Dallet had been killed fighting with the Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War; his brother Frank Oppenheimer and Frank's...
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  • Joe Dallet (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    October 17, 1937. Eby, Cecil D. (2007). Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 150...
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    and Baldwin Hawes, he recorded an album of 78s called Songs of the Lincoln Battalion on Moe Asch's Stinson label. This included such songs as "There's...
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    deliberately chosen, such as Garibaldi Battalion in Italy, the Canadian "Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion" or Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the United States. Many non-Spaniards...
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    Battalion Dabrowski Battalion a.k.a. Dombrowski Battalion Figlio Battalion Garibaldi Battalion Madrid Battalion Prieto Battalion Thaelmann Battalion Names:...
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    At the end of March 1938, following the Aragon Offensive, the Lincoln-Washington Battalion, part of the 35th Division retreating from Belchite, where they...
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    Army recipients were Private Daniel R. Edwards of the 3rd Machine-Gun Battalion, 1st Division, Colonel William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan of the 165th Infantry...
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    Morris (Mickey) Mickenberg who became antagonistic to the American Lincoln Battalion after returning from Spain. Mickenberg and Herrick tried to form,...
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    Durruti himself. Also, as recounted by various former members of the Lincoln Battalion, it was not uncommon for Republican commanders to order units onto...
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  • member of the Irish Republican Army who served as an officer in the Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, to be smuggled to Norfolk by way of Northern...
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    volunteers to fight, including several hundred Americans in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. All along the Spanish military forces supported the nationalists...
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    War. A number of M1928s were brought from the United States by the Lincoln Battalion.  Sweden: In January 25, 1940, The Royal Swedish Army ordered 500...
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    Edward A. Carter Jr. (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    rank of staff sergeant. Carter was part of the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 12th Armored Division. Provisional platoons of African-American...
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  • Steve Nelson (activist) (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade members)
    the Lincoln Battalion. After heavy losses at Brunete, the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and the George Washington Battalion were merged into the Lincoln–Washington...
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    the volunteer Abraham Lincoln Battalion of Americans. Later they traveled with the North American George Washington Battalion, with about forty Canadians...
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