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maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...
in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...
noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...
deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...
suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...
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...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...
It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...
as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...
work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...
had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...
at the time of the Civil War, as suggested by the fact that it only had one slave by 1840 (MacLeod, 2008). It is perhaps also impo...
In five pages this paper examines this author's attempts to emphasizes the similarities between the Civil War and the Reconstructi...
In five pages the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of author Michael Shaara is examined in this text review...
This paper consists of five pages and examines this novel about the Civil War in terms of its subject matter and characterizations...
In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....
In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...
In twenty seven pages the Civil War is discussed within the context of the Confederate Rangers' tactics of guerrilla warfare. Twe...
limited (Vasile The Union Soldier, His Life and Times: A Modern Interpretation of a 19th Century Experience). However, technologi...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
In seven pages this research paper examines how these Civil War tactics were a harbinger of the total warfare military concept of ...
because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...
defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
"how should the resources of the joint force be applied to accomplish that sequence of action" (the means) (Overview of operationa...