The crowd was filled with famous people, including musician Questlove, film director Spike Lee and clothing designer Tory Burch.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

Lee and his officers decided to make a final effort to break out of the circle of Union forces.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Her friends included members of the Duke Ellington band, Count Basie's band, and singers like Sarah Vaughn and Peggy Lee.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

In South Korea, President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak discussed a free trade agreement signed by their governments two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

"Farewell,General Lee! I wish for your sake and mine that every damned Yankee on earth was sunk ten miles in hell!"

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Nothing but surrender. Lee sent a note to General Grant asking to meet with him to discuss surrender terms.

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Lee soon discovered that it would not be easy to break out of the trap that Richmond and Petersburg had become.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake with Paula Wolfson and Elizabeth Lee.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Dancers from Old Lore Theater performed the poem "Annabel Lee" by the nineteenth century American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Lee was dressed in his finest clothing. He wore a beautiful gray coat with a red sash tied around it.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard and Bragg, And the south wind blew hard on That Ragged Old Flag."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Five months earlier, Confederate General Robert E.Lee had marched his army up from Virginia to invade the North.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe talk about General Lee's campaign north to Gettysburg,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

He refused to believe reports that Lee had arrived on the battlefield with thirty thousand more southern soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

But before Lee could get there, Union troops -- thousands of them marched down the road below Jackson.

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If the Union force attacked before Stonewall Jackson got into position, Lee could not possibly hold it back.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Lee read it slowly. When he finished, Grant asked if the Confederate general wished to propose any changes.

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