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The battle of Cane Hill was fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, near the town of Cane Hill, Arkansas. Union troops under James G. Blunt had pursued Confederate troops commanded by Thomas C. Hindman into northwestern Arkansas, and Hindman saw an opportunity to attack Blunt while the latter was isolated. Confederate cavalry under John S. Marmaduke moved to Cane Hill to collect supplies. Blunt moved to attack Marmaduke on November 27. The Union advance made contact with Confederate troopers the next morning. The Confederates fell back to an elevation known as Reed's Mountain. Blunt continued to pursue after the Confederates abandoned Reed's Mountain, but his leading elements ran into an ambush. The Confederates then presented a flag of truce as a ruse to buy time. Hindman's army and Blunt's reinforced command fought the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, which retained Union control of Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. (Full article...)

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Simon Mol (November 6, 1973 in Buea, Cameroon) is pen name of Simon Moleke Njie, a Cameroon-born black journalist, writer and "anti-racist" political activist. In 1999, he sought and was granted political asylum in Poland, and asylum was granted in 2000. After his asylum was granted, Mr. Mol resided in Warsaw.

In Poland, Mr. Mol was accused of spreading his HIV virus to as many as 40 Polish women for which he was charged and imprisioned. However, Mr. Mol was not able to stand trial as it was suspended due to his severe illness. Simon Mol passed away from HIV-related complications on Friday, October 10, 2008.

Life in Africa

Mol was born into an English-speaking family in former British Cameroon. His own autogiography states that he worked as a journalist, was persecuted and jailed for his writing, sought political asylum in several African countries, was granted asylum in Ghana where he was persecuted again.

On March 6, 2007 newspaper Rzeczpospolita published an article on Simon Mol (Na tropie oszusta Simona Mola by Bertold Kittel and Maja Narbutt in cooperation with Anna Machowska from TVN), proving how his biography was fabricated. An editor of the Cameroonian English language weekly The Sketch denied that Njie worked for them, his mother told he was employed at a refinery, didn't write about government corruption in Cameroon and was not jailed in the 1996. A representative of Ghanaian journalists said that while in Ghana Njie published newspaper articles about football and was never arrested in this country.

Life in Poland

In June 1999 he arrived in Poland as a member of Ghanaian PEN Club delegation on a PEN annual congress in Warsaw. Immediately, Njie applied for asylum, which was granted in September 2000.

In Poland Simon Mol, wrote poems, founded a small theater called Migrator Theatre [1] and engaged in political campaigns for the rights of refugees, anti-racism, anti-fascism and environmental protection. His activities brought light to racial discrimination which is rife in Poland, despite the country's stringent hate crime laws.

On January 5, 2007 Mol was taken into custody by the Polish police and charged with infecting his sexual partners with HIV. According to the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, he was identified with HIV back in 1999 while living in a refugee shelter, but Polish law does not force an HIV carrier to reveal their disease status. While living in Poland, Mol allegedly persuaded women to have unprotected sex with him by claiming that using a condom was racist.

By July 2007 fourteen of Mol's sexual partners have been identified with HIV. Several women informed Mol that they believed they had contracted HIV from him. Before Winter of 2006, rumours of Mol's infection started to spread over the internet; he explicitly denied them in a public letter. After his arrest, Mol denied any knowledge of being an HIV carrier and accused the police of racism.

Simon Mol died on October 10th 2008 in Warsaw, after having refused treatment for his disease.


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