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Naval Warfare during The Civil War

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

Civil War and the Evolution of Warfare in Terms of Naval Power

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

War in the Nineteenth Century

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

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...

The U.S. Civil War: Causes and Implications

deal of power because their populations were growing so much. At the same time, Southern States were losing power and they began t...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

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

The Changing View of Warfare

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

The Changing Nature of War

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

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

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

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

Slavery and the Civil War

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...

Kenneth Stammp's The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

In five pages this paper examines this author's attempts to emphasizes the similarities between the Civil War and the Reconstructi...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara'

In five pages the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of author Michael Shaara is examined in this text review...

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

This paper consists of five pages and examines this novel about the Civil War in terms of its subject matter and characterizations...

English Civil War and Blaming James I and Charles I

In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....

Richard Hall's Patriots in Disguise

In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...

Activities of Confederate Partisan Rangers

In twenty seven pages the Civil War is discussed within the context of the Confederate Rangers' tactics of guerrilla warfare. Twe...

The First Modern War in America was the Civil War

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

U.S. Civil War and Maneuver Warfare

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

Georgia March of General Sherman

In seven pages this research paper examines how these Civil War tactics were a harbinger of the total warfare military concept of ...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads and its Importance

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

Operational Art and the Battle of Leyte Gulf

"how should the resources of the joint force be applied to accomplish that sequence of action" (the means) (Overview of operationa...