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- 1881: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... the American administration formulated a plan to destroy Castro called Operation MONGOOSE. Kennedy sent a memo to the Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, okaying the project on November 30, 1961. A panel including Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Maxwell Taylor, discussed the ‘liquidation’ of certain Cuban leaders. On January 30 1962 Kennedy met with the Russian President Khrushchev’s son-in-law to remind the Russians the US was friendly and ...
- 1882: Canada At War
- ... Black Watch Troops in Scotland, and in 1906 that army was ordered to form a second army. It was the only two-army command stationed in one city for years. On August 1st, 1914 Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, offered the Black Watch’s of Canada to help Great Britain in a war against Germany, Great Britain accepted the offer. 300 of the men volunteered. During World War ...
- 1883: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts was established in early 1863 under the direction of colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw was only twenty six years old when he was put in charge of the regiment. He came from a strong abolitionist family in Boston before the war. Before gaining his position as ...
- 1884: Causes Of The American Civil W
- ... October 1857, Brown and 21 followers captured the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown planned the takeover as the first step in his liberation of the slaves, but it was taken the next morning by Robert E. Lee. John Brown was hanged two months later. In his speech before the court on trial for treason, he stated, "Now if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the ...
- 1885: Centralization Of Control In M
- ... they needed in order to be authorized to do with your empire as they saw fit. The religious leaders could do as they pleased continue efforts to increase centralization. In his Regulations for His College, Robert de Sorbon presents many rules that are based on religious practices. In theory, a university does not require religion to be a part of its institution, but in medieval times they were inseparable. The most ...
- 1886: Communist Containment In Asia
- ... troops sit waiting to protect democracy. The Truman Doctrine ensures that even without a valid threat to U.S. security, it has a right to “protect the free peoples of the World.” Bibliography 1) Ferrell, Robert. Harry S Truman, A Life. London: University of Missouri Press, 1994. pp. 246- 268, 353-357. 2) McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. pp. 550-575 3) Truman, Margaret. Harry S Truman ...
- 1887: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... Grant ordered the Army of the Potomac to move southeast about 12 miles to the vicinity of Spotsylvania Court House (NPS Web Site), hoping to get between the Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond. General Robert E. Lee, however, was quicker, and elements of the Confederate First Corps arrived at Spotsylvania Court House just ahead of the Federals. Over the next few days a series of collisions in the area occurred ...
- 1888: Civil War 4
- ... were their own separate country and the fort was still under union control. Davis had been threatening to attack the fort for a long period of time but waited for Lincoln to enter office. Major Robert Anderson was in command of the union army at the time. He repeatedly refused to give in to Davis’s demands. Anderson moved troops to the fort to protect it. He tried to have supplies ...
- 1889: Civil War 2
- ... the Union army was always well supplied. In conclusion the North won because it had superior resources and industry to sustain the war effort to its conclusion. William L. Yancey and A. Dudley Mann to Robert Toombs, May 21, 1861, in James D. Richardson, comp., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, 2 vols. (Nashville, 1906), II, 37. 5 1
- 1890: Constitution 2
- ... time on whether the framers had personal intents in the creation and ratification of the Constitution? Beard's thesis seems so ridiculous that it needs to be taken with a grain of salt and as Robert Brown stated that Beard's thesis if accepted is done so on 'an act of faith' and not an analysis of historical method. There were a few problems within the Constitution of the United States ...
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