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- 1271: George Washington: Summoned By A Country; One Man Stood Strong
- ... frontiersmanship, hard work, and responsibility. This mission was to travel through rough terrain in inclimate weather to the Ohio Valley, to warn the French to stay off the British land. The French refused and the war began (Meltzer 34-40). Necessity, a small fort built by Washington's forces 40 miles from the French Territory was the sight where the first bloodshed of the French and Indian War occurred. This battle belonged to Washington's forces. This victory raised George's confidence in himself and captured him a promotion to Colonel of the Virginia Regiment. It also gave him an unwarranted contempt for the French (Meltzer 40). The Seven Years War, known as the French and Indian War, cost over a million civilians and soldiers their lives (Meltzer 40). In July of 1754, a battle between Washington's troops and the French and the Indian ...
- 1272: Gaius Marius: Savior.. or Destroyer?
- Gaius Marius: Savior.. or Destroyer? Gaius Marius was the Janus-faced savior of Rome. On one hand his sweeping military reforms intensified Rome's might at a crucial time, during the Jugurthine war, saving Rome from the steady advance of their Italian enemies. On the other, his no-frills military-minded personality drove him to push those away who could not socially accept this lower-upper class equestrian ... social acceptance, even as a seven-time consul. Yet his life was a dichotomy of military genius and political ineptitude. Due to the poverty of surviving sources during both the year 100 and the brief civil war in 88, and in fact during most of this period, insight into Marius' day-to-day political activities is difficult. However this much is certain, his military reforms, such as offering la nd to ...
- 1273: Thomas Jefferson
- ... in their work. And yet of the first ten presidents, New England furnished only the two Adamses, while Virginia gave to the nation, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and then tapered off with Tyler. In the War for the Union, the ten most prominent leaders were Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Farragut, Porter, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. Johnston and Longstreet. Of these, four were the products of Virginia, while none came from New England, nor did she produce a real, military leader throughout the civil war, though she poured out treasure like water and sent as brave soldiers to the field as ever kept step to the drum beat, while in oratory, statesmanship and humanitarian achievement, her sons have been ...
- 1274: Red Badge Of Courage
- By: Matt Red Badge of Courage Matt Abresch English 8 GATE Book Report The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane traces the effects of war on a Union Soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his actual enlistment, and through several battles of the Civil War. Henry Fleming was not happy with his boring life on the farm. He wanted to become a hero in war and have girls loving him for his glorious achievements in battle. He knew his ...
- 1275: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... propagandist. Hamilton's wistful words in a letter to a friend in 1769 seem in retrospect an invocation. What better way was there for a young man to change his station in life than in war, where ultimately, it is one's abilities rather than one's background that determines success or failure? All the while that the little New York artillery company was with Washington, Hamilton was making an indelible ... scribbling." As the action for the 1778 campaign got underway, Hamilton pined for battle. He wanted to be in the fray, not behind a desk. Other developments pointed to a much more successful year of war. The French had officially recognized the United States as an independent nation, and pledged military support. As Hamilton was fluent in French, probably learned from his mother very early in life, Washington entrusted him as ... between himself and Admiral D'Estaing as they planned the Franco-American campaign. Baron von Steuben also stepped into the picture. A bogus German nobleman who, like many European mercenaries with questionable titles, joined the war in America for some excitement and military glory. Von Steuben became drill master at Valley Forge, and managed to inspire the weather-worn troops with his randy wit, and to whip them into some ...
- 1276: Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot
- Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot Nearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the New World and put into slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in any other country that had ever ... have fought oppression. Martin Luther King Jr., would aid immensely in this fight. He was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr. Was a Baptist minister and also preached for civil rights. By the time he was 17 he had decided to follow his fathers footsteps, so he himself was ordained as a minister. After his graduation from the Crozer Theological Seminary, when he began postgraduate ... use for his social protests. In the following year he decided to move back to Atlanta to become copastor with his father. In 1963 he was back in Birmingham, Alabama, where he led a massive civil rights campaign, organizing drives for black voter registration, desegregation, and better education throughout the South. During that time he led the unforgettable March on Washington where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" ...
- 1277: Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
- ... ops. If something is on the news, it is most likely to end up in one of Clancy's books. A well planned Muslim attack on the Soviet Union's largest oil refinery begins World War III in Red Storm Rising. With the Soviet Union's oil economy crippled the politburo decides to invaded the Middle East, but first in an attempt to destroy NATO, they will invade Europe. The book explodes into a race of U.S. intelligence against the Russian's war plans. Fortunately the U.S. has numerous intelligence experts who catch on to the plan. In addition to that, a Spetsnaz commando is captured and forced to reveal the plans to cripple strategic NATO sites ... in Europe. With that threat out of the way, the Air Force uses F-19 stealth fighters(Frisbees) to take out strategic bridges and Russian AWACs aircraft that give NATO air supremacy. Then the ground war begins. It is all based on NATO supplies vs. Russian oil reserves. This becomes the main focus of the book, with specific detail to NATO convoys from America to Europe. Early on the aircraft ...
- 1278: The War Between The US/NATO and Yugoslavia
- The War Between The US/NATO and Yugoslavia Within the past four weeks the war between the United States/NATO and Yugoslavia, has become a serious issue. There are three sides to this very complex issue. There is the side in support of NATO, the side in support of Yugoslavia, and then there is the side that few people know about or are aware of. In America, the media plays a major role in advertising this war. They produce statistics and commentaries that can be considered by some to be propaganda for the war. The media emphasizes the atrocities being committed by the Serbians against the Albanians and the positive effects ...
- 1279: Black Rain
- ... greatly such as his constant wanderings looking for coal for his community. If you were depended on would you help your community? I think so. The theme that is very meaningful to me is that war hurts two different parts of a country. The first is the military, which was not really talked about, and then there are the civilians. The civilians must ration food so that the military can eat ... dropped was not meant for any military base but to destroy and kill a city. The theme is clear in meaning that it hurts the civilians much more than it hurts the military and that war is very, very cruel. The people that were rationing had very little to eat and that amount became smaller as the war continued. People were forced to grow carp in small, and search for mussels in ponds in order to get any type of meat. By the end of the war, there were no mussels left ...
- 1280: A Seperate Peace
- By: Stacy Farah Devon is a safe haven away from the rest of the world. A war is going on, but at Devon the boys are playing around a river and creating new games like blitzball and not worrying about the problems boys only a few years older than them are facing ... the fighting and loss many people in the world are facing while Finny, Gene, and other boys are forming a special club just for their group of friends. At Devon the boys know about the war and even have people coming to get them to enlist, but still the war does not hit home. They are still at peace and do not see the reality of the war. What they see are mostly videos brought to them to encourage them to enlist, and those ...
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