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COUNCIL OF WAR

Definition: COUNCIL OF WAR

COUNCIL OF WAR

1. An assembly of officers of high rank, called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to measures or importance or nesessity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


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Council of War on board USS Colorado, off Korea in June 1871. Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Commanding the Asiatic Fleet, is standing to the right of the table, leaning on the chart. Other officers present are identified in Photo # NH 63678 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY.

The Kaiser calls a council of war. Credit: Library of Congress.

Massaponax Church, Va. "Council of War": Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (left end of bench nearest tree) writing a dispatch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Council of War held at Lord Raglan's Head Quarters, the morning of the successful attack on the Mamelon portraits of Lord Raglan, Maréchal Pélissier, & Omar Pacha. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: COUNCIL OF WAR

Language Translations for "COUNCIL OF WAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

sotaneuvottelu. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

haditanács (courtmartial, court-martial). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

軍事会議 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぐ"じかいぎ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouncilcay ofay arway

   

Russian 

  

военный совет тж.. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COUNCIL OF WAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-f-i-l-n-o-o-r-u-w"

-3 letters: councilor.

-4 letters: confocal, fornical, unicolor.

-5 letters: acronic, airflow, caloric, clarion, colonic, conical, cornual, coronal, couloir, council, courlan, crucial, crucian, fluoric, fluorin, folacin, inocula, laconic, orcinol, raccoon, woorali.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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