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Pancho Villa Del Norte
1,611 wordsBy the turn of the century, Profirio Diaz's regime had not only been marked by notable achievements, but also by brutal tyranny. Under Diaz, the finances of Mexico were stabilized, and country experienced an unprecedented economic development. Foreign capital, especially American, was invested in the exploitation of the country's mineral resources; the mining, textile, and other industries were constructed; and the foreign trade increased about 300 percent. On the other hand, foreign investors d...
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1,512 wordsThe people known today as Zulu are formed together about 165 years ago. Many independent clans combining, all of whom had lived in the eastern coastal parts of South Africa for centuries, formed them. The name "Zulu" itself was originally the name of one man whose descendants made up the Zulu clan. In 1816 this small clan gained a new ruler by the name of Shaka (Chaka). An expert militarist, he led the small Zulu clan in a conquest of his neighbors. The Zulus soon became a very powerful empire r...
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Order To Make Princess Of Wales
1,799 wordsWilliam Wallace, Joan of Arc, George Armstrong Custer, and the list goes on of the people or groups of people who have had historical films made about them and their accomplishments or blunders. Many of these films have different areas in which they indirectly comment on every aspect of life from the roles of women to a particular look at social class. The idea that film is a medium in which a director can comment on the ills of society has been around since the first motion picture was made. Th...
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Crazy Horse Red Cloud
835 wordsRed Clouds Revenge is a historical novel about the grim recollection of detailed events and days / months before the showdown between the US Cavalry & Sioux Indians on the northern plains of 1867. Fetterman, Brown & Grummond rode out ahead of seventy-eight soldiers that day on December 21 st 1866. In hopes of driving out some Sioux Indians and bring some scalps home. Many soldiers guard was down when Fetterman's entire force disappeared over Trail Lodge Ridge. None of them were ever seen alive a...
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Camp In Hopes Of Rallying Camp In Hopes Saladin
1,356 words... Joshua Power offers an excellent construction of the formation of the crusader army and its problems on the march: The mounted knights were preceded and probably flanked also by archers and crossbowmen, as well as by units of Turcoples, mounted archers who fought like the Saljuq or Turkish contingents. The heavy cavalry were the weakest point of the army when faced with Muslim troops far more mobile than their own. The enemy's mounted archers could shoot from well outside the range of Crusad...
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Army Of Northern Virginia Cemetery Ridge
803 wordsBy late afternoon, on the 2 nd July, 1863, after fierce hand to hand fighting, Major General John B. Hoods 3 rd Divisions flanking attack on Big Round Top had been successful. Meade realising the lack of troops on the Round Tops had rushed the 1 st Maine to try to thwart Jackson who having let Hood bypass Sickles force in the Peach Orchard caught way out in front of the main Union lines and seize the Top (s). Sickle was outflanked and held by Laws Brigade leaving only the 1 st Maine to take the ...
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Half Hour Mountain Range
1,251 words... e was taken to the Hold. He even talked to the Banished One. But the disgusting evil twisted thing tortured him! Tortured him beyond recognition. For years all he felt was pain. Pain, like nothing he had ever felt before. Sometimes when he was allowed to stay in his cell without pain it hurt even more. He hated not being in pain more than he did being in pain. He hated it more because he could think. He could think about his life before he was captured, that gave him a pain in his heart. He ...
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Robert The Bruce William Wallace
1,491 wordsWilliam Wallace was born in a little town called Elerslie, in Scotland, around January 1272. "He was the second of three sons to Sir Malcolm Wallace" (Waters). His mother taught him his basic education, until he was six to seven years of age (Chung). At this time and age, the second male son of a family was obligated, by tradition, to obtain education by a clergy member of a monastery, and eventually become a clergy member himself. It is unknown, by historians, how William averted this tradition...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Cemetery Ridge
1,120 wordsCol. Lawrence Chamberlain of a Maine regiment ran out of ammunition on Little Round Top and charged the Confederates with bayonets. The Maine regiment prevented to fall of the Federal left side and probably won the battle of Gettysburg as a result of their bravery. Farther north, elements of a division of the Confederate III Corps advanced to the slopes of Cemetery Ridge before they too were forced to retire. On the Federal right, Ewell did not attack until evening, after Longstreet's onslaught ...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Peach Orchard
1,692 words... a half miles long, following strategic landmarks of the area, later to be a part of the Gettysburg Cemetery, which resembled a large fish hook. The Union had a distinct advantage in this battle because they seized the high ground before the Confederates. They were on the defensive, on their own turf. The Confederates had also assembled quite a formidable force, about 50, 000 strong commanded by General Lee and his Major Generals Ewell and Hill. The federals had 60, 000 on Cemetery Ridge, and...
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African Americans Native Americans
1,018 wordsBuffalo Soldiers Introduction In October 1492, explorer, Christopher Columbus mistakenly found the new continent, which the United States of America today. The place he wished to sail to is India by using the Northeast Passage, which does not exist. When he reached the new continent, he thought he already India. When he met the native, he called them the Indians. Consequently, the Native American were Red Indian till today. The discovered of new continent had bring changes to the whole world. Th...
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Parke Custis Harpers Ferry
3,615 wordsRobert E. Lee Introduction 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 ...
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Dante Alighieri Middle Ages
2,794 wordsDantes Views Of Chivalry And Warfare, Cantos Dantes Views Of Chivalry And Warfare, Cantos Xii And Xxviii Throughout Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the warlike and the social concept behind chivalry is one of intense concern for this author from the Middle Ages. What makes Canto XII so important in terms of understanding Dantes feelings on chivalry and war is that the reader is seeing Dantes views on warfare not only from the perspective of an observer, but from the perspective of a participant. Late...
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Sitting Bull Wounded Knee
666 words1 / 16 / 96 Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee The Ghost Dance came about by a Paiute Indian farmer named Wovoka. Wovoka s Ghost Dance came from a vision he d had in which all the ancestors and buffalo rose from the dead, restoring the old Indian way of life forever. Wovoka added some things from other religions to make the Ghost Dance full fledge religion. One main idea that Wovoka borrowed was the idea of sacred clothing that would protect the wearer from harm. The Ghost Dance religion spread among t...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Chicago Il
1,528 wordsSince his meteoric life and tragic death, Hannibal Barca comes across the centuries as the military commander with few, if any equals. A courageous leader, brilliant tactician, and steadfast soldier in the service of his beloved Carthage, Hannibal existed for one sole purpose: to defeat and, if possible, to eliminate the power of Rome (Livy p. 207). Hannibal? s destiny was already chosen for him before his own birth. The only thing that couldn? t have been foretold was the outcome of his struggl...
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Art Of War Civil War
2,805 wordsHOW ARE BATTLES WON? The logical attempt to define strategy in War comes to us from many resources. There are many defining examples of teachings of the art of war. In this compilation I have chosen to take a look at the American war in the 1860 s from a European perspective of the very early days of war. Machiavelli: The Roman armies were a carefully selected militia whose soldiers came from rural areas. The Roman armies were of moderate size, and foot soldiers were their backbone; the value of...
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Lord Byron Asia Minor
1,418 wordsThe Battle of Marathon One of the most significant battles in antiquity was fought on the narrow, tree strewn plain of Marathon, in September, 490 BC. There, the Athenian army defeated a Persian force more than twice its size, because of superior leadership, training and equipment. The battle of Marathon has provided inspiration to the underdogs throughout history. In 490 BC, the Athenians proved that superior strategy, and technology can claim victory over massive numbers. In 646 BC the Persian...
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Modern History Hundred Days
1,356 wordsThe Battle of Waterloo was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, that effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history. After raising France to a position of dominance in Europe from 1804 to 1813, Napoleon met defeat in 1814 by a alliance of major powe...
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American Civil War First World War
1,944 wordsTo what extent was the American Civil War, the first modern war? The Great War witnessed a significant departure from the Napoleonic tactics and technology familiar to contemporary European military thinkers. Although the defining factor remains ambiguous, there is a tacit acceptance that the First World War epitomizes the modern war. It was a conflict of mass armies waged with highly efficient weaponry, which, coupled with the absolute pursuit of victory, eroded the pseudo-chivalric concepts wh...
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Pancho Villa Del Norte
1,486 wordsDoroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons, who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves, Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so, he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen, Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre for the next fifteen ...
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