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General Order No. 11

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2017
Entity authorityQ5532080 ↗
Source-derived summary

General Order No. 11 may refer to:

General Order No. 11 (1862), General Ulysses S. Grant's order during the American Civil War that all Jews in his district be expelled.

General Order No. 11 (1863), Brigadier General Ewing's order that civilians living in several counties of Missouri be expelled and their lands burned.

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The public source identifies “General Order No. 11” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around General, Order and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1862, 1863—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with General, Order and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “General Order No. 11”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2017. The linked authority identifier is Q5532080. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1862 and 1863.

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This entry incorporates text from “General Order No. 11” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.