(more than a third of Lee’s army) in theBattle of Gettysburg. After three days of battle, Lee retreated towardsVirginiaon the night of July 4. It was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy, and a month later the great general would offer Confederate PresidentJefferson Davishis resignation; ...
of the shares at $4 a share.Stockholders must tender for their shares by a specified expiration date.3[transitive]formalto offer or show something to someoneShe will tender a proposal at the meeting.The company vice-president hadtendered his resignation(=officially said he wanted to leave his ...
West Germany’s government and military and intelligence services, including the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt (1969–74); indeed, the discovery in April 1974 that a top aid to Brandt, Günter Guillaume, was an East German spy led to Brandt’s resignation two weeks later...
At its founding in 1973, the Likud coalition was dominated by the Gahal bloc, which consisted of theHerut(“Freedom”) party and theLiberal Party (Miflaget ha-Liberali). The Herut had its roots inVladimir Jabotinsky’s RevisionistZionism, popular especially among Russian Jews of the 1920s an...
In late 2002 Chávez’s opponents organized a general strike to force his resignation or early elections. The economy was severely damaged by the closure of shops and factories and especially by the strike in the oil sector. Nevertheless, Chávez was able to withstand the pressure, and in ...