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British Army Turning Point
825 wordsArguably the most significant Colonel in the Battles of Saratoga. Flamboyant! Rowdy! Troublemaker! When you hear these words, does a colonial in the military come to mind? Well it should! Colonel Daniel Morgan is arguably one of the most significant and influential figures in American Military History. Morgan, an old Indian fighter, led a battalion of rowdy woodsmen dressed in long, Indian-style hunting shirts each carrying a tomahawk and scalping knife along with his long rifle. Morgan contribu...
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World War Ii Heavy Losses
1,228 words... h North Africa, code-named Torch. During the preparations for the battle, the Royal Air Force established complete air superiority and subjected Axis forces to intensifying punishment. General Montgomery planned the battle in three stages: the break in, the dogfight, and the break out. Montgomery planned to use diversionary tactics to indicate that he would attack in the South, drawing forces away from the strongly held North, then massing Allied forces in the North. On 23 October, the break...
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U S Army American Soldiers
1,508 wordsStephen Ambrose introduces us to his book by setting the scene on the morning after the Allies begin their assault on the European continent. We are introduced to Lt. Waverly Wray, the XO for Company D of the 505 th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Through the next few pages of the prologue Ambrose illustrates heroism within Lieutenant Wray demonstrating a certain strength that would carry the U. S. and her allies through the War. In terrain unfamiliar to American soldiers Lt. Wray moves through thi...
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Viet Cong Tet Offensive
1,071 wordsThe greatest tragedy is war, but so long as there is mankind, there will be war. -Join The Art of War On March 16, 1968, Charlie Company of the American Division moved into the hamlet of My Lai and committed one of the most brutal atrocities in the Vietnam War and American history. However much their actions resulted from inherent stresses of the war, their brutal targeting of noncombatants was said to be an exceptional deviation from orders. Some 500 civilians were killed and it was not until a...
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Machine Gun Middle East
1,759 wordsThe Battle of El Alamein in late 1942 was the decisive battle of the North African campaign that lasted from 1940 until 1943. El Alamein was located 70 miles west of the main Egyptian port of Alexandria and could not be outflanked because movement of vehicles was restricted to a corridor of 40 miles between the sea and the impassable Quattara depression. Although the 8 th Army had overwhelming superiority in men, tanks, guns and aircraft and could not have lost the battle the prospect of a clear...
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Machine Gun Fire North Africa
1,700 words... division of X Armoured Corps from breaking through the bridgehead and into the enemy's communications before dawn. The failure to penetrate the minefields lost an exceptional opportunity because dawn on 24 October saw the German forces without direction as the barrage had dislocated their communications and the German commander, General Summer, was missing and was later found to have died of a heart attack. Furthermore, the German armour was dispersed across the desert and the German command...
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Gulf War Syndrome U S Government
1,618 wordsIn 1990 the United States deployed 700, 000 soldiers into and around the region of the middle east known as the Persian Gulf. The U. S. wanted to stop the progression of Iraqi forces who were invading the oil-rich neighboring country of Kuwait. When Iraq Surrendered to the Allied forces on March 5 th they had been completely swept out of Kuwait. The United States only lost one-hundred-forty-eight men while Iraq's losses where estimated around 100, 000 men. Little did the United States know that ...
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Hitler Willing Executioners Police Battalion 101 Germany
563 wordsIn Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Goldhagen explains what could have provoked the German people to support the murder of six million European Jews. His central theory is that the perpetrators of genocide in Nazi Germany were not a small group of SS zealots but thousands of ordinary Germans who killed with the consent of millions more. One of his most convincing examples is that of Police Battalion 101. Due to manpower shortages during the war, the police battalions...
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Police Battalion 101 Peer Pressure
654 wordsBrowning Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning accounts for the actions of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 in Poland) and the role they played in the WWII during the Jewish Holocaust. Police Battalion 101 was composed of veterans from World War One and men too old to be drafted into the regular forces: army, navy, air force. Browning himself is uncertain of the accuracy of information that he provides because he based his study on personal evidence recorded in postwar legal investigations...
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Final Battle Communist Party
1,083 wordsOn the 18 July 1936, leading Generals of the Spanish Army led a revolt against the democratically elected Popular Front government of Spain. Within days the country was plunged into civil war with the Republicans fighting the insurgent Nationalists for control of the country. The various democracies of the world turned their backs on Spain's plight and even hindered the Republicans by supporting non-intervention in the conflict. However, many people came to help the Republic. Las Brigades Intern...
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Dead Bodies French Soldier
1,141 wordsThe hardships of the first World War are present in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. He demonstrates the struggles and hardships that a typical soldier of that war must endure to stay alive or just keep his sanity. There are many factors that can attribute to the problems the soldiers had to face. First were the raging emotions the soldiers felt during the war. They felt patriotism in the beginning and then slowly it broke down to heartache and despair. Another k...
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Charlie Company Vietnam War
1,350 wordsMy Lai On March 16, 1968, in the Quang Ngai region of Vietnam, specifically My Lai, the United States military was involved in an appalling slaughter of approximately 500 Vietnamese civilians. There are numerous arguments as to why this incident even had the capacity to occur. Although some of the arguments seem valid, can one really make excuses for the slaughter of innocent people? The company that was responsible for the My Lai incident was the Charlie Company and throughout the company there...
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De Valera British Rule
1,219 wordsDe Valera's mother, Catherine Coll, usually known as Kate, came to the states in 1879, at the young age of twenty-three. Like so many other Irish immigrants of that time, she had suffered from poverty, and even hunger, in her native land and saw America as a place where she could go to try and get a fresh start. She first took a job with a wealthy French family that was living in Manhattan. This is where and when she met Vivion Juan de Valera. He was a Spanish sculptor who came to the home of he...
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World Of Illusion Wanted To Go Home
1,522 wordsGenerally when some one writes a play they try to elude some deeper meaning or insight in it. Meaning about ones self or about life as a whole. Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie and A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin are no exception. The play The Glass Menagerie establishes itself as a memory play Williams is giving the audience a look at his own life, but being that the play is memory some things are exaggerated and these exaggerations describe the extremity of how Williams felt during these ...
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Wanted To Go Home Chain Of Command
942 wordsCatch- 22 and A Few Good Men Catch- 22 is a novel about the Second World War. It is set on the island of Piano, which is off the coast of Italy. It is set in the end of the war while the Germans are on the run and being pushed out of Italy. The book focuses on a bomb group, more specifically a squadron in which a bombardier named Yossarian is assigned to. Yossarian is very upset because all these people he doesnt even know (the Germans) are trying to kill him. The novel is very hard to understan...
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States Marine Corps United States Marine
1,603 wordsBeing a Marine is the most challenging and rewarding responsibility a person could face. It is a known fact that the Marines have the toughest and most difficulty training course in the world. Men and women from all over the world try their abilities of strength and courage to see what life can throw at them, and what it is to be a true Marine (Conner). The United States Marine mental and moral qualities have been tested throughout history. Through the long history of the Marine Corps there are ...
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Spanish Civil War Abraham Lincoln
3,698 wordsThousands of volunteers from North and South America were among those who volunteered to help defend the democratically elected Spanish government from a revolt of fascist army officers supplied by Hitler and Mussolini. Some of these volunteers died when the ship they were traveling onthe City of Barcelona was torpedoed off the Spanish coast. We present here a dossier that runs from the wartime accounts by Jack Freeman and Edwin Rolfe to a 1998 poem by Mart? n Espada. 1937 Letter from an America...
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World War Ii Native American
1,022 wordsMichaela Hamilton English Honours 2 April 1, 2001 Native American Code Talkers For thirty-six years the Japanese government puzzled over the mysterious unbreakable code used by the American Armed Forces in World War II. Navajo Code Talkers are literally what was employed in WWII. Navajo men that spoke [a variation of] their language. Navajo answered the military requirement for an undecipherable code because Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity. Its syntax and tonal qualities, n...
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Fourth Century Century Bc
2,115 wordsThe year was 359 BC. Greece, though weary from constant internal struggling still had supreme power over the Hellenistic world. Persia, though it had suffered large setback in the Persian Wars more then a century before was still a menacing force. The Barbarian State of Macedon was led by warrior kings who aspired to be Greek, yet ruled over a feudal society that was as multicultural as any of its time. Good morning Miss Boston and class. Todays seminar will conclusively prove to you the stateme...
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Spanish Civil War Final Battle
1,117 wordsThe Involvement Of The International Brigades InThe Involvement Of The International Brigades In The Spanish Civil War On the 18 July 1936, leading Generals of the Spanish Army led a revolt against the democratically elected Popular Front government of Spain. Within days the country was plunged into civil war with the Republicans fighting the insurgent Nationalists for control of the country. The various democracies of the world turned their backs on Spain? s plight and even hindered the Republi...
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