small fire arms of their time‚ and artillery. The moro were villagers with clubs and other bludgeoning devices‚ machetes and crude muskets. The battle occurred in a crater. The moro were situated in the crater and american forces attacking‚ and the depth was fifty (50) feet. Before the battle began Major General Woods gave the command “Kill or capture the six hundred.” The battle began with both sides exchanging fire and the americans adding artillery to the engagement while the moro
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Was World War I primarily fought in the trenches? Life in the Trenches There was nothing glamorous about trench life. World War 1 trenches were dirty‚ smelly and riddled with disease. For soldier’s‚ life in the trenches meant living in fear. In fear of diseases (like cholera and trench foot) and of course‚ the constant fear of enemy attack. Trench warfare WW1 style is something all participating countries vowed never to repeat and the facts make it easy to see why. Photo- British troops sitting
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minutes‚ forty- fives seconds (1:45:52) into the documentary and continuing to the conclusion documentary‚ it is here when his perspective made the biggest influence. Randy Floyd’s name appears in the subtitles. Floyd begins to speak about the bombs‚ artillery‚ and gases that were being released on the Vietnamese. An explosion is shown‚ while Floyd speaks‚ there is video footage of children‚ running away from the explosion. The children run up to American soldiers‚ and all the soldiers are able to do is
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allowing supply lines to run through the the cut-off Russians. The first planned attack was a British/French naval assault on February 19 1915. It bombarded Turkish artillery along the coast but had very little effect. A new attack was launched on March 18 targeting a bottleneck in the Dardanelles. It suceesfully destroyed many Turkish artillery targets‚ but the fleet ran into an uncharted minefield and lost three battleships‚ prompting the allies to withdraw their naval force. After the deemed failure
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celebrate nor to mourn‚ but instead was a visual statement represent shigeo’s pro anti-war beliefs and to mock the foolishness of war. “Victory 1945” features a bold illustration of a barrel of a canon and artillery shell in black‚ with a singular shade of yellow filled as the background. The artillery shell is seen to be directed to the canon where it was shot‚ implicating how war is mindless. The World War II caused much anguish and sufferings‚ resulting in peace and anti-war movements uprising in the
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Prussians introduced several parts of this new technology. A new way of communication they used the telegraph‚ a new transportation method was with trains by using the railroads‚ which would carry in men and equipment. Then they had a new technology for artillery such as the new rifles and bullets to be more precise and accurate. Therefore‚ when Prussia went into this battle‚ they had faith in their new technology and their opponents would not know what was going on. Making this battle a win for Prussia and
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On January 21 1968‚ the People’s Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) initiated a large-scale attack against U.S. forces stationed at Khe Sanh Airbase. The battle lasted a total of 77 days ending on April 8 1968. This critical battle in the Vietnam War helped limit the advance of North Vietnamese forces from seizing the eastern Vietnamese coastline‚ spreading communist influence throughout northern South Vietnam‚ and maintaining the security along the demilitarized zone (DMZ). The purpose of this paper
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Robert Anderson born June 14th 1805 was born as a soldier in a Soldiers retreat in Kentucky. He graduated from the United States West Point Military Academy. At West Point he earned a commission and became a second lieutenant in the 2nd regiment Artillery. And from there he joined Lincoln in and out of service. He was first lieutenant‚ then Seminole as assistant general to Winfield Scott‚ then captain in 1841. He was wounded in the Mexican American war where he was commanded and received a Brevet
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why did the spanish armada fail? The Spanish Armada failed for a number of reasons here are some of the reasons. English ships had better artillery because Spanish cannons could only fire once an hour while the English cannons can fire every three minutes. Also the Spanish didn’t have enough trained gunners to use the cannons so they had to use normal soilders to control the cannons. The English had smaller and faster ships so they can easily weave in and out of the Spanish ships. While the
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Iran-Iraq War The Iran-Iraq war started in the 1980s and continued till 1988 making it the longest conventional war after the second Sino-Japanese War(1). It officially began on Sept. 22‚ 1980‚ with an Iraqi land and air invasion of western Iran(1). The Iran-Iraq War was multifaceted and included religious schisms‚ border disputes‚ and political differences. The war broke hostilities ranging from conflicts between the religious pacts of Sunni-verses-Shia and Arab-verses-Persians‚ to a personal
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