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Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

1297 The Spanish Civil War marked a...

This research paper explores the topic of "hard war," which was authorized by Lincoln and implemented by Sherman in his March of t...

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union (USSR) was at it's height in 1979, the year in which the Iranian Revolution to...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

In seven pages this paper examines the changes that occurred in medicine as a result of the U.S. civil war and how these changes i...

limited (Vasile The Union Soldier, His Life and Times: A Modern Interpretation of a 19th Century Experience). However, technologi...