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Blackness
Number of Words: 1209 / Number of Pages: 5
... troops were located. General Halleck, Western U.S. Army
commander, had ordered Grant to stay put and wait for reinforcements.
Grant had given command of the Pittsburg Landing encampment to General
William T. Sherman while he waited at his camp in Savannah, Tennessee. (1)
At Corinth, Confederate Generals Albert Sydney Johnston and P.G.T.
Beauregard worked feverishly to ready the 40,000 plus troops there for an
attack on the Union Army at Pittsburg Landing before U.S. Army General ...
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The Zhou Dynasty
Number of Words: 3075 / Number of Pages: 12
... vassal’s best interest to remain loyal to the king and to stay in power. However, most of the lords had become corrupt and spoiled in hopes of gaining power and controlling the entire kingdom. King Wen tried to overcome this problem by buttering up the vassal states and the noble families. They established a system of chivalry, almost, which set out several moral issues. Nonetheless, many vassals still betrayed the Wang and joined forces with the barbarians to help defeat the Western Zhou. That was the main cause for the movement of the Zhou from the West to the East. The Eastern Zhou kingdom, af ...
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Sports In Canada In The 1920s
Number of Words: 257 / Number of Pages: 1
... due to the influx of many
talented players. The twenties were Canada's golden age of sport. Many
sports, such as hockey, football, and baseball, were becoming all
professional. The sports heroes of the decade were amateurs. They often
came out of nowhere to capture the headlines, medals, and world records.
The greatest multi-sport hero of that age was Lionel Conacher. He
played hockey, football, baseball, and lacrosse. On the day of the 1921
Grey Cup, he played in the city baseball championship, and hit a triple in
the last inning to win it. Then he drove across town and scored ...
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Albert Einstein 2
Number of Words: 3251 / Number of Pages: 12
... gone from bad to worse.
Teenage Years and Graduation:
Einstein's relatives in Northern city of Milan in Italy, offered help to the family. At the time Einstein was at the age of fifteen when he decided to drop-out of high school and join his family to travel to Milan. However he was expelled from school by the principal; he (the principal) said:" on the grounds that his presence in the class is disruptive and affects the other students." Albert Einstein had become a dropout. In Italy he felt free for the first time. With nobody to guide every step of his daily life, he traveled through th ...
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Civil War 2
Number of Words: 1557 / Number of Pages: 6
... ships, buildings, and targets in tree lines.
Howitzers have a somewhat lower muzzle velocity and arc their shells onto a target. They are used in both a direct fire and indirect fire mode. Keep in mind with the limited range of the pieces available during the Civil War there was no indirect fire such as we know it today. Targets were generally always within the line of sight of the artillery men. This is especially useful when an enemy is concealed behind a prepared position or the artillery men desire to have a shell explode over an enemy’s head. The air-burst does less damage to hardened ...
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History Of Asia
Number of Words: 2310 / Number of Pages: 9
... Japan was looking to plant its people on foreign soil, Chinas soil. Japan felt it was treated unfair by the U.S. and Great Britain and eventually signed the Anti- Comintern Pact in 1937with Germany. Russia had already begin planting its Communist ideas in China, Japan needed an ally. By 1940 the United States had banned exports to Japan such as scrape metal and fuel. Japan leaders were worried they had been using reserves. Japan invaded Dutch Indonesia and only received a small amount of fuel. Japan asks all British and American s to leave. On Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The Pacific Wa ...
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South Africa
Number of Words: 909 / Number of Pages: 4
... going to be going through the
next 300 years; colonialism.
In 1652 South Africa was forever changed when Dutch
established a "rest stop" in South Africa.Apartheid also
unofficially started. At that time, the area was occupied by
the Khoi/San clans. The pressure on the Khoi/San increased
as more Dutch and French settlers arrived. By the 18th
century, most Khoi/San had lost their land to these European
settlers.
Cape Town became a major port as a way station for the
Europeans. The colonists were mostly farmers and cattle
herders. They became known as the Boers. They developed
thei ...
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The Protector Of The Scots And The Hammer Of The Scots
Number of Words: 2128 / Number of Pages: 8
... daughter had married Eric II King of Norway in 1281, this of course was an attempt to create a bond with Norway, Unfortunately he was informed that his daughter had died and quickly realized he had no heir to the throne. King Alexander III had to get married and quickly! The King does marry a Counts daughter in 1284 however this is a little too late for the throne of Scotland. Shortly after his second marriage, the King is drinking one ill-fated evening with his nobles. He gets the notion to go and pay his new bride a visit, unfortunately this is a dark and stormy evening. His nobles try to ...
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The Road To World War II
Number of Words: 755 / Number of Pages: 3
... This created only hostility towards the British, but continued diplomacy with Germany. The underlying cause of this friendly nature was not to remain neutral. Wilson thought that if the Americans weren’t going to stand up for their rights to the seas, that this would be the way to reduce the submarine warfare. Wilson promoted peace at every turn, but both sides disliked the idea, in fact the Chancellor of Germany predicted that peace talks would be unsuccessful. Wilson wanted to demand an end to the war, but at this point in the war, it would have ruined the Allies. If that were to ensue, the U ...
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German Immigration To The Midwest
Number of Words: 1200 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the 1860's and the poverty that almost always follows war. In one 20 year span in the late 1800's Germany went to war at least 7 times taking on neighboring countries such as: Austria, France, Belgium and Russia.
Like I said, much money was spent on the war effort in Germany. People were taxed heavily just to buy bullets for the army. Through all this, word was spread like wild fire through Germany that a new country in the west across the water was offering freedom and a promise of happiness for anyone who would make the long journey to the new country: America. So with somewhat heavy hearts, ...
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