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Appomattox in American English
town in central Va., near Lynchburg: pop. 1,800: at a former nearby village (Appomattox Court House) Lee surrendered to Grant (April 9, 1865), ending the Civil War

Appomattox in British English
noun: a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War

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