The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference,the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS),and began operating the Big South–OVC Football Association in partnership with the Ohio Valley Conference in 2023. The Big South,founded in 1983,is firmly rooted in the South Atlantic region of the United States,with full member institutions located in North Carolina,South Carolina,and Virginia. Associate members are located in Georgia and South Carolina.
McIntosh County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census,the population was 10,975,a drop of 23.4 percent since the 2010 census. The county seat is Darien.
Fairburn is a city in Fulton County,Georgia,United States,with a population of 16,483,according to the 2020 census. Though it has a rich history of its own,the city is now a closely linked suburb of Atlanta,which lies just 17 miles to the north.
Milton County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1857 to 1931. It was created on December 18,1857,from parts of northeastern Cobb,southeastern Cherokee,and southwestern Forsyth counties. The county was named for John Milton,Secretary of State of Georgia from 1777 to 1799. Alpharetta was the county seat until the end of 1931,when Milton was merged with Fulton County to save it from bankruptcy during the Great Depression. At that time,Campbell County,which had already gone bankrupt,was also ceded to Fulton,giving it its 70-mile (110 km) long irregular shape along the Chattahoochee River.
Campbell County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1828 to 1931. It was created by the state legislature on December 20,1828,from land taken from Fayette,Coweta,and Carroll counties,and from the half of DeKalb County which became Fulton County soon afterward. Georgia's Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 also added to the county. The county was named for Duncan G. Campbell,one of the U.S. commissioners responsible for the Treaty of Indian Springs.
John Archibald Campbell was an American jurist. He was a successful lawyer in Georgia and Alabama,where he served in the state legislature. Appointed by Franklin Pierce to the United States Supreme Court in 1853,he resigned at the beginning of the American Civil War,traveled south and became an official of the Confederate States of America. After serving six months in a military prison at war's end,he secured a pardon and resumed his law practice in New Orleans,where he also opposed Reconstruction.
The Battle of Kettle Creek was the first major victory for Patriots in the back country of Georgia during the American Revolutionary War that took place on February 14,1779. It was fought in Wilkes County about eleven miles (18 km) from present-day Washington,Georgia. A militia force of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia force that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta.
Francis Marion Campbell was an American football defensive lineman and coach. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1949 until 1951,where he was appropriately nicknamed "Swamp Fox" because of his first and middle names. During his National Football League (NFL) playing career,he played for the San Francisco 49ers (1954–1955) and the Philadelphia Eagles (1956–1961),winning Pro Bowl honors in 1959 and 1960 and also being named 1st team All-Pro in 1960 as part of the Eagles' championship team that year. He was one of the last of the NFL's "two-way" players who played all offensive and defensive snaps in a game.
The United States Army Regimental System (USARS) is an organizational and classification system used by the United States Army. It was established in 1981 to replace the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS) to provide each soldier with continuous identification with a single regiment,and to increase a soldier's probability of serving recurring assignments with their regiment. The USARS was intended to enhance combat effectiveness by providing the opportunity for a regimental affiliation,thus obtaining some of the benefits of the traditional regimental system.
Rev. Tunis Gulic Campbell Sr.,called "the oldest and best known clergyman in the African Methodist Church",served as a voter registration organizer,Justice of the Peace,a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868,and as a Georgia state senator during the Reconstruction era. He also published an autobiography,Sufferings of the Reverend T.G. Campbell and His Family in Georgia (1877). An African American,he was a major figure in Reconstruction Georgia. He reportedly had a 400-person militia to protect him from the Ku Klux Klan. Like Governor Rufus Bullock,he eventually had to flee the state to save his life.
Georgia Arianna,Lady Colin Campbell,also known as Lady C,is a British Jamaican author,socialite,and television personality who has published seven unauthorised books about the British royal family. They include biographies of Diana,Princess of Wales,of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother,and of Meghan,Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry,Duke of Sussex.
The Battle of Brier Creek was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on March 3,1779,near the confluence of Brier Creek with the Savannah River in eastern Georgia. An American Patriot force consisting principally of militia from North Carolina and Georgia along with some Continental Army troops were defeated by British forces,suffering significant casualties. The rout damaged Patriot morale.
The Capture of Savannah was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on December 29,1778. It pitted an American garrison of Continental Army and militia units against a British invasion force commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The capture of the city led to an extended occupation and was the opening move in the British southern strategy to regain control of the rebellious Southern Colonies by appealing to the relatively strong Loyalist sentiment there.
James Moore Wayne was an American attorney,judge and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1835 to 1867. He previously served as the sixteenth mayor of Savannah,Georgia,from 1817 to 1819 and the member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's at-large congressional district from 1829 to 1835,when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
The Province of Georgia was a significant battleground in the American Revolution. Its population was at first divided about exactly how to respond to revolutionary activities and heightened tensions in other provinces. Georgia was the only colony not present in the First Continental Congress in 1774. When violence broke out in 1775,radical Patriots took control of the provincial government,and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and 1778,Georgia served as the staging ground for several important raids into British-controlled Florida. The British army captured Savannah in 1778,and the American and French forces failed to recapture the city during the Siege of Savannah in 1779. Georgia remained under British control until their evacuation from Savannah in 1782.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia were held on November 8,2016,to elect the fourteen U.S. representatives from the state of Georgia,one from each of the state's fourteen congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on May 24.
The Campbell Fighting Camels men's soccer team represents Campbell University in all NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions. The Fighting Camels currently play in the Coastal Athletic Association,and are coached by Dustin Fonder. The program plays their home matches at the Eakes Athletics Complex.
Tyson Malik Campbell is an American professional football cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia. He was drafted by the Jaguars in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.
David Glenn Jenkins is an American politician,a helicopter pilot,and former police officer from Georgia. Jenkins is a Republican member of Georgia House of Representatives for District 132.
