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- 1821: Cuban Missile Crisis 2
- During the administration of United States President John F. Kennedy, the Cold War reached its most dangerous state, and the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came to the edge of nuclear war in what was known as the ... Cuba. This was the unofficial beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before the ties were severed, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been training Cuban exiles for a possible invasion of Cuba. Newly inaugurated President John F. Kennedy approved this invasion on April 12, 1961. On April 14, 1961, a group of B-26 bombers, which were piloted by Cuban exiles, attacked air bases in Cuba. This raid was designed to ...
- 1822: Causes Of The Civil War
- ... for the representative of the newly formed Republican Party. The Democratic Party was also divided by the issue of slavery as two parties emerged from this single party. The Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge was declared a candidate for the Southern Democrats. John Bell filled the fourth slot as he ran for the Constitutional Union party. The South was almost entirely against Lincoln from the outset, as 10 states in the South did not even have him on ...
- 1823: Byzantium Civilization
- ... used to hold wine during the Liturgy. Upright frontal figures decorated most of the chalices with Christ appearing as a beardless young man. The dove represents the Holy Christ that descended over Christ when Saint John baptized him. Crosses and bust-length figures of Christ decorate the censers. The emperor Maurice Tiberius had a medallion that when put together with twelve gold coins and three other medallions that were identical formed ... Processional Cross is decorated on both sides with silver-gilt medallions. On the front of the cross, Christ has his right hand raised in blessing and is flanked by Mary on the left side with John the Baptist on the right. The clergy in imperial ceremonies, military campaigns, and liturgical processions carried these crosses. They were also given to the church as gifts for healing and remission of sins. The origin ...
- 1824: Boston Tea Party
- ... in particular was received with a great sympathy by the southern colonies. They were so sympathetic, they summoned a Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia. (PBS Online) The most influential member of the congress was John Adams. He persuaded the fellow members to narrowly pass a proposal for a species of American home rule under British direction. (Carruth, 88) Yet more significant, the Continental Congress created the Association which called for ... gave Americans a sense of power and showed them that they could fight back and make a difference. The Tea Party served as the springboard to more revolutionary steps that eventually led to our independence. John Adams said about the event, There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. It was a bold, risky, yet necessary action that legitimately established ...
- 1825: Berlin Wall Book Review On The
- ... building. One reporter, Kellet Long stated, "Berlin is holding it's breath." Soon the wall went up. According to Gelb, the United States took what was happening in Berlin lightly. When Berlin Task Force officer, John Ausland, was called and told that trouble was fomenting in Berlin, Ausland said to call back later and went back to sleep. When the news finally reached John F. Kennedy, president at the time, the message was still unclear. No one knew what was going on. What was clear though, was that West Germany was not in control of Berlin. When the wall ...
- 1826: Ben Quarles Negro In The Revol
- ... Cato Wood, Prince Estabrook, Caesar Ferrit, Samuel Craft, Lemuel Haynes, and Pomp Blackman. One of the most distinguished heroes at the Battle of Bunker Hill was Peter Salem who fired the shot that killed Major John Pictcarirn of the Royal Marines. But Peter Salem was not the only African American hero during the Revolutionary War. Another African American, Salem Poor, also made a hero of himself at Bunker Hill. Several officers ... be enlisted, but that those already serving in the Army should be dismissed. The colonists would probably have kept African Americans out of the military during the war if not for the proclamation by the John Murray, Earl of Dumore. He stated I do hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others, free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining His Majesty s Troops, as soon as ...
- 1827: Battle On March 9th
- ... Buchanan. After all the modifications were complete, the ship was rechristened the CSS Virginia, but the original name the CSS Merrimack is the preferred name. The USS Monitor was the creation of Swedish-American engineer, John Ericsson. The ship was considered small for a warship, only 172 feet long and 42 feet wide. Confederate sailors were baffled by the ship. One was quoted describing her as "an immense shingle floating on ... to the low profile, the entire crew was located below the water line, so one armor piercing hit would kill the entire crew. The only individual willing to take command of the ship was Lieutenant John Worden. The battle at Hampton Roads was part of the Peninsula Campaign that lasted from March to August of 1862. There was a total of five ships engaged in the battle. From the US Navy ...
- 1828: Battle Of Vicksburg
- ... empty transports past Confederate batteries at night and then cross the east bank of the Mississippi River . The plan worked well and General Grant arrived at Port Gibson, Mississippi. The Confederate commander of Vicksburg, General John Pemberton failed to realize Grant's strategy, scattered his troops, and did nothing to oppose the landing. At Jackson, Mississippi, General Joseph E. Johnston was accumulating a force to co-operate with Pemberton's army ... which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent, feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period. This communication will be handed you under flag of truce by Major-General John S. Bowen.....".
- 1829: Battle Of Gettysburg
- ... have easily erased R.E. Lee's only out-right defeat from the history books. Day 1, July 1, 1863 saw the start of the best three days of the AOP's life. Brigadier General John Buford, recognizing the fact that whoever held the high ground south of Gettysburg would control the killing fields, dismounted his cavalry for a showdown with Major General Henry Heth's infantry division. Deployed to the ... 500 Confederates for one crucial hour. Colonel Thomas Devin's and Colonel William Gamble's cavalry brigades fought ferociously under mounting pressure, and held on long enough for infantry reinforcements to arrive from Major General John Reynolds' I Corps. Reynolds became the ranking Union commander when he arrived on the field, and he never gave retreat a thought. Like Buford, he recognized the importance of holding the high ground south and ...
- 1830: A Very American Revolution
- ... was unique unto itself. It was utterly different than the conventional revolution. It could almost be called an intellectual uprising. The fact that The true revolution lies in the hearts and minds of all Americans. (John Adams) is the key to understanding why the American Revolution may not necessarily seem to be a revolution in terms of guns and death, but in terms of enlightenment, and the thirst for freedom, there ... upon looking at the child-rearing practices of the time, one can see that children were engrained with American ideology at a very young age by their mother in a process called republican motherhood . Witness John Adam s brother; at the age of eight sneak out of the house and march with revolutionary soldiers. This is not merely young energy, it is the passionate devotion to further those precepts that were ...
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