Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in the lake region of northern Wisconsin and flowing about 290 km (180 mi) generally south to the Mississippi River.
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"Right now our government owes $13 trillion in national debt," Duffy told nine tavern and bar owners at a meeting in a smoky bar on the banks of Chippewa River.
Will Sean Duffy of 'The Real World' be picked to serve in the House? 2010
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"Right now our government owes $13 trillion in national debt," Duffy told nine tavern and bar owners at a meeting in a smoky bar on the banks of Chippewa River.
Will Sean Duffy of 'The Real World' be picked to serve in the House? 2010
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During the press conference today, they said that they believe that Shaun shot his wife, Christine, took her body to an undisclosed location where he dismembered it, and then drove to nearby Chippewa County and disposed of the body in the Chippewa River.
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Moose are occasionally seen a few miles west of the town, -- between it and the Chippewa River in considerable droves.
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[333] At the forks of the Chippewa River in 1838, eleven Sioux were killed while asleep, by Chippewas whom they were entertaining.
Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 Marcus L. Hansen
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Toward night the Marquis of Tweedale crossed the Chippewa River and joined the main army under General Sir Phineas Riall.
General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893
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Chippewa River, the defensive line selected by the British, who now fell back upon it.
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Over rolling prairie with small pools and marshes, to a swift running stream about twenty feet wide, three feet deep, a branch of Chippewa River; heavily rolling ground with stony knolls and granite boulders, to White Bear Lake, a large handsome lake, with mingled open and woodland.
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This place was nearly opposite the mouth of the Chippewa River, and near by, about a quarter of a mile south of the Minnesota River, was formed the camp ever afterwards to be known in local history as Camp Release, from this memorable surrender of captives there.
History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Charles J. Stees 1864
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Over rolling prairie with small pools and marshes, to a swift running stream about twenty feet wide, three feet deep, a branch of Chippewa River; heavily rolling ground with stony knolls and granite boulders, to White Bear Lake, a large handsome lake, with mingled open and woodland.
Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands, Christopher Columbus 1857
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