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17 Th Century Plymouth Colony
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King Philips War (1675 - 76) is an event that has
been largely ignored by the American public and
popular historians. However, the almost two-year
conflict between the colonists and the Native
Americans in New England stands as perhaps the
most devastating war in this countrys history. One
in ten soldiers on both sides were wounded or
killed. At its height, hostilities threatened to
push the recently arrived English colonists back
to the coast. And, it took years for towns and
urban centers to r...
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19 Th Century Triple Alliance
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The causes of World War I have been discussed in
great detail in many publications. Most agree that
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the
final piece of the complex puzzle, but there were
other factors that contributed to the outbreak of
war. James John uses the approach of starting from
the assassination and building layers of other
possible factors around it, while Joachim Read
gives us a timeline approach to the events leading
up to the murder. Bismarck, the German Chancellor
from 1...
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Parke Custis Harpers Ferry
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Robert E. Lee They say you had to see him to
believe that a man so fine could exist. He was
handsome. He was clever. He was brave. He was
gentle. He was generous and charming, noble and
modest, admired and beloved. He had never failed
at anything in his upright soldiers life. He was
born a winner, this Robert E. Lee. Except for
once. In the greatest contest of his life, in a
war between the South and the North, Robert E. Lee
lost (Redmond). Through his life, Robert E. Lee
would prove to be alway...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War Ii
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How America Came to War By James A. Gill more
Introduction On December 29, 1940 Franklin Delano
Roosevelt gave a speech to the country that was
like a? fireside chat? but was not. Roosevelt
talked about in his speech statements about
Germany? s plans to engulf the world during World
War II: ? ? The Nazi masters of Germany have made
if clear that they intend not only to dominate all
life and thought in their own country, but also to
enslave the whole of Europe and then to use the
resources of Eur...
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Ohio Valley Separate Peace
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The Kickapoo Indians The Kickapoo Indians are
Algonkian-speaking Indians, related to the Sauk
and Fox, who lived at the portage between the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers, probably in present Columbia
County, Wis. , U. S. , when first reported by
Europeans in the late 17 th century. The Kickapoo
were known as formidable warriors whose raids took
them over a wide territory, ranging as far as
Georgia and Alabama to the southeast; Texas and
Mexico to the southwest; and New York and
Pennsylvania to the ea...
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