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northerners

n. (plural of northerner English)

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Northerners (Korean political faction)

The Northerners (, literally North people) were a political faction of the Joseon Dynasty. It was created after the split of the Easterners in 1591 by Yi Sanhae and his supporters. In 1606, during the reign of Queen Inmok, the Northerners divided into Greater Northerners (led by Heo Gyun) and Smaller Northerners. In 1613, the Greater Northerners split further into Flesh Northerners, Bone Northerners and Middle Northerners. The Smaller Northerners allied with the Westerners and Southerners.

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The Reverend Starbuck, oblivious of the bullets that whipsawed around his horse, cheered his Northerners on.

There was a curious lack of urgency about the expedition, almost as though they were merely changing base rather than advancing on the Northerners who had invaded Virginia.

The rebel guns had been fighting a duel with a Northern battery, a duel that the Northerners had won.

More Northerners were at the tree line, some of them directly ahead of Starbuck now.

Most of the rebel forces in Virginia were seventy miles away on the far side of Richmond with Robert Lee, but it was here that the Northerners were attacking, and if they broke through here, then what was to stop them marching south, ever south, until Richmond was cut off and the whole upper South split from the Confederacy?

The Northerners were advancing in good style, the sun reflecting off their belt buckles and brass buttons.

Hetherington thought that the Southerners did not look very much different from Northerners, except that they were generally thinner and a good deal more raggedly uniformed, but he did not want to contradict the eminent preacher, and so he agreed that the captured rebels did indeed display low foreheads and feral teeth.

A handful of the Northerners knelt and fired into the trees before retreating again.

More Northerners mounted up and, abandoning everything except their weapons, fled eastward.

The Northerners limped past, going to their long imprisonment, and Truslow grinned.

The Northerners were mostly wounded in the head or shoulders, the bloody wounds of men caught in the open by cavalrymen carrying sabers.

The Confederates were joking about the ease of their victory, claiming it was further proof that a half-dozen Northerners were no match for a single Southerner, but Lassan was both more experienced and more sanguine and knew that the attack of the New Jersey brigade had been a blunder by an inexperienced general.

The Northerners formed their ranks in a fold of land where they crouched behind a fence.

The North, assuming that Jackson had tried to force his way past them, claimed victory, while Jackson, whose object had been to draw the Northerners into a full attack, kept his silence.

Instead the Northerners were holding their ground in the killing patch and trying to overwhelm the rebel line with volley fire.