Individual #siege_of_Vicksburg__Vicksburg  a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
  instance of:  #siege
  part of:  #American_Civil_War__War_between_the_States  US history: civil war between the North and the South; 1861-1865
     part of:  #USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
        part of:  #North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
           part of:  #northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
           part of:  #western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
           part of:  #the_Americas__America  North and South America
  part of:  #Mississippi__Magnolia_State__MS  a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
     part of:  #Gulf_States  a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas
        part of:  #South_USA  the region of the United States lying south of the Mason-Dixon line
           part of:  #USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

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