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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
1,806 words... ge coach for Denver, Colorado. Along the way, he stopped at Fort Griffin which, at the time, was the center of a flourishing cattle industry. Approximately two thousand hunters and cowboys annually visited Ft. Griffin. Their money and existence attracted gamblers and prostitutes alike, quickly giving Ft. Griffin the reputation as the craziest town in Texas. Docs stay was cut short when he was again arrested for gambling which was more than likely, a sign of showing a newcomer unwelcome ness ...
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American Revolution West Point
443 wordsMargaret Cochran Corbin (1751 -c. 1800) fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U. S. A. , orphaned at the age of five and was raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John Corbin. John joined the Continental Army when the American Revolution started four years later and Margaret accompanied her husb...
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Men And Women Tells The Story
949 wordsThe Civil War was a great event in everyone's life. Especially in the lives of the African Americans. We saw how they were forced into slavery and the hardships and torture that these men and women went through. However, we cannot go through what these brave men and women went through. In this film, "Glory, " these former slaves and fugitives combine their forces with those who did them wrong, the "white" men, to fight for their country. However, these men are deprived of supplies a soldier need...
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White Settlers Trading Post
975 wordsThe year was 1862. America was now engulfed in its Civil War. By this time in American history, more than 150, 000 white settlers were moving into Native American soil. The majority of the Woodland Sioux land had been surrendered, and what was left of their land was vastly overpopulated. To add insult to injury, the white settlers constantly insulted the Santee's and insinuated that they were better then them. That summer was a very bad one in terms of crops and cattle. Settlers as well as India...
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Commander In Chief House Of Burgesses
1,279 wordsWashington, George (1732 - 99), commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution, and later the first president of the United States. He symbolized qualities of discipline, aristocratic duty, military orthodoxy, and persistence in adversity that his contemporaries particularly valued as marks of mature political leadership. Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the eldest son of Augustine Washington, a Virginia planter, and Mary Ball...
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Love For Nature Individual Freedom
460 wordsA loud crack pierces the still silence of the forest as Manual, a Huron guide, plunges his tomahawk into the body of a British soldier. Gunshots erupt from the darkness of the forest all around Cora and Alice cutting down the company of soldiers assigned to protect them. As if appearing from thin air two Mohicans and a white man come to their rescue, killing all of the Hurons. This white man was named Hawkeye, and was the main character of the movie The Last of The Mohicans. The romantic theme o...
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Plot Summary Of The Count Monte Cristo
623 wordsAt a dock, a bride to be (Mercedes) waits for her soon to be husband Edmond Does to return from his voyage at sea. When the ship docks, Edmond gets off the ship and speaks to another gentleman about his captain who died at sea after his visit to the forbidden island where none other than the great Napoleon himself was banished. On the ship, a man was accused of being a thief and another was mad at Edmond because he took over when the captain died instead of him. Edmond meets Mercedes on the dock...
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Lieutenant Colonel Upper Canada
598 wordsMajor General Sir Isaac Brock, a hero of the War of 1812, was born on Guernesy, in the Channel Islands, in 1769. He commanded all of the armed forces in Upper Canada. He also joined the British army at 15. Promoted to senior lieutenant-colonel at 28, Brock in 1797 was given command of the 49 th Regiment. In 1801, he was made second-in-command of the land forces in Nelson's invasion of Copenhagen. In 1802, Brock was assigned to the city of York, which is now Toronto, in Canada. War with the U. S....
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Lewis And Clark Clark Expedition
547 wordsSacajawea was born sometime during 1786 in a territory located in todays Idaho. She lived in her Rocky Mountain homeland the first 12 years of her life, up until she was kidnapped from her Shoshone people by an enemy tribe, the Hidasta's. Sacajawea was then sold to a French-Canadian fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau as a slave, and was soon after claimed as one of his wives. During this time an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory was being formed by Meriwhether Lewis and William C...
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Governor Winthrop Massachusetts Bay
2,744 words... in Plymouth were enslaved, [ 95 ] but Hirsch brings together a number of pieces of documentary evidence to show that they were enslaved for life, and some were sent to colonial prisons. [ 96 ] Roger Williams' proposal of late June, 1637, that "such Pequots as fall to them be not enslaved, like those which are taken in warr" was apparently not taken. [ 97 ] While the actions taken were nothing of which to be proud, they are not consistent with genocidal intent. Katz does an effective job of d...
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Rocky Mountains Meriwether Lewis
1,710 wordsA glimpse 200 years in our past would leave you baffled, the miniature United States and endless frontier land. In those lands, on those plains, up in those snow-capped mountains lay the hopes and dreams of men throughout our small, developing nation. Men young and old, some skilled and some driven by a passion, took it upon themselves to explore this no mans land. Two very lucky men, and 29 of their contemporaries, were able to travel through this vast wilderness under the wishes and orders of ...
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Emancipation Proclamation Colored Troops
1,098 words... bsp; It was evident to the Union that they would need more men to join the draft so they could fill the ranks, but the wives of these men did not want their husbands and boyfriends running off to war, just to be killed. President Lincoln realized that more men were needed, but in order to keep the issue of slavery out of the wa, r he did not want to use blacks as soldiers. The war began as an effort to save the Union, and that is how Lincoln wanted it to stay. On the morning of April 12, 186...
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Robert E Lee Parke Custis
1,826 wordsIntroduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, through his college years, military experience and his work in later life to his death...
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Tree Fort Day Cabin
463 wordsAs a young child I had a most favorite place. It was a tree fort that I built with my big brother on our wooded property up north near a cedar swamp. Back in those days I would play all sorts of games there with friends that I would bring up to our cabin. Behind the island there is a swamp with little islands that we give nicknames to. It is a great place to play and forget schoolwork. The tree fort is not big. It is about 10 feet off the ground. That was high then but not any more. It is about ...
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Women And Children Navajo People
950 wordsTable of contents Table of contents? ? ? pg. 1 (History) How the West was? won? ? ? ? ? pg. 2 (History) Harmony Lost? ? ? pg. 3 The Long Walk? ? ? pgs. 4 - 7 Bibliography? ? ? pg. 8 How the West was? won? ? For hundreds of years the early stories of the United States have been summed up by the expression, ? How the West was won. ? The classic cowboy and Indian films have always portrayed the white settlers moving across America? s plains and mountains to be innocent at heart in their journeys to...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Army Of The Potomac
2,457 wordsThe American Civil War I. Background The groundwork for the Civil War was laid many years before its actual start on April 12, 1861 with the firing on Fort Sumpter. One of the main reasons for the war; slavery, had been going on since before the formation of the United States. However it wasn t until the early 1850 s that anyone had a real problem with slavery. From then on, it was only a matter of time before the greatest war ever fought on American soil would begin. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave...
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Meriwether Lewis Whiskey Rebellion
1,137 words? Many Polish Immigrant? ? Many people have tried to do what Meriwether Lewis has done, but have failed. ? Lewis was born August 18, 1774. ? His family had a history of Hypochondria (depression). ? As a boy his father died and he inherited a 2, 000 acre plantation, 520 pounds in cash, 24 slaves, and 147 gallons of whiskey. ? By the time he became a teenager Lewis had become an alcoholic. ? As he became older he joined the army and helped put down the whiskey rebellion. ? The whiskey rebellion st...
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Ulysses S Grant United States Military
2,726 wordsA culture is the beliefs and interests of a particular group of people. About 150 years ago, a proud and noble culture was created in the Southern portion of the United States. It was created by Southerners from all walks of life, ranging from the gentry to the good ol boys. They loved their culture so much that they created a country. It was a country of blue skies, green hills, beautiful meadows and forests, and old-fashioned Southern hospitality. There were large plantations that grew some of...
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Robert Edward Lee Commander And Chief War
511 wordsRobert Edward Lee Robert Edward Lee was born of two distinguished Virginia families. He was a devoted son, an outstanding Westpoint cadet, and an United States army officer for thirty two years. He graduated second in his class. Lee started his impressive Military career as a Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. His first assignment was to work on the construction of Fort Pulaski in 1830 near Savannah, Georgia. Then in 1831 he was transferred to Fort Monroe, Virginia where he worked on harbor d...
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Wear Uniforms School Uniforms
3,676 wordsAngus Young of the rock band AC/DC is what comes to mind when picturing a school uniform. His uniform or costume if you will, is that of an English schoolboy dressed in a suit type uniform but shorts instead of slacks and a funky hat. A group of small boys and girls all warring the same colored uniforms assembled in front of the catholic school down the street is another picture that comes to my mind when thinking about school uniforms. This is what most people used to think about school uniform...
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