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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July 1st‚ 1916‚ artillery flew everywhere‚ machine guns rang in the distance‚ millions dead. 57‚000 British‚ 8‚000 French and Germans already dead in the first 24 hours. This is the Battle of the Somme‚ held on the River Somme in France. 1.2 million casualties. It started with British General Douglas Haig coming up with an idea of a “great push” through German lines. It was a trench warfare‚ massive artillery bombardments‚ thousand of soldiers going “over the top” into No Mans Land‚ and already many
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The Battle of Stalingrad (Ruff draft) The battle of Stalingrad proved to be one of the greatest turning points in World War II. In the beginning of the World War II Stalingrad was one of the largest industrial producing cities in the war. The main production of Stalingrad was tanks‚ mortars‚ heavy guns‚ and automatic weapons. Not to mention the city was named after Stalin himself. The battle of Stalingrad involved and area about 100‚000 sq. km.‚ and lasted for almost seven months. Over
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example of the narrator using figure of speech to describe Devon is when he says “ It had loomed in my memory as a huge lone spike dominating the river bank forbidding as an artillery piece”(13). In this instance the narrator simile to describe the tree he thought he was looking for by calling it a forbidding piece of artillery. This means that the Narrator had a crucial connection with that tree.
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most of the trends of the modern period and helped to shape the future. The commercial revolution brought about many new changes in the modern period like biological exchanges‚ a major impact on work and large empires that are based on guns and artillery. All of these things shaped the new trends that many major civilizations would follow during the modern era. The commercial revolution brought about many ideas about biological exchange between civilizations. The Americas were included in the
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at the approaching Rebels‚ fell back toward the courthouse area before steady pressure from Marmaduke’s troopers. The makeshift cotton-bale fortifications proved a formidable obstacle‚ and the Confederate attack stalled before the Union rifle and artillery fire that commanded the roads leading into the courthouse square. Clayton made further use of the contraband camp‚ dispatching some 200 black men to haul enough water from the Arkansas River to enable the Yankee garrison to hold out for forty-eight
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Emergence of trench warfare - T- T- Trench warfare is a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. Troops are significantly protected from the enemy’s small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. E- Germans forced to retreat because Britain had bigger army- to stop they dug trenches and made huge defence lines –British couldn’t break line so they dug their own trenches. X-The Western Font is an example of a trench and it stretches over 700
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enabled the Japanese to conduct a fierce defense of Okinawa over many weeks. Using pillboxes and strongpoints‚ caves‚ and even some ancient castles‚ the Japanese defense positions supported one another and often resisted even the most determined artillery fire or air strikes. Mounting few attacks themselves‚ the Japanese conserved their strength for this defense. Caves or pillboxes often had to be destroyed individually with dynamite charges. This battle took place in an environment much more heavily
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until the New Year‚ 1776. 3: Chapter 3 started out with the British point of view. Still unimpressed by the American army‚ they chose to ignore warnings of attack. This chapter recounted General Knox’s expedition to Quebec to retrieve French artillery and later‚ the planned siege of Boston and Dorchester by the Americans. 4: Chapter 4 follows the rushing Americans to the under defended New York (where the British had escaped to)‚ still focused on the unruly manner of many of the soldiers of
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Clinton to surrender‚ but he refused. Then they shot each other with their artillery. The British continued on‚ and they eventually got to the city. They started to burn down the houses of the city. One day later‚ Clinton officially surrendered. (history-of-american-wars.com) The Siege of Charleston had a lot of effects for the rest of the war. First off‚ it was an embarrassing loss to the colonists. They lost 400 artillery and about 6‚000 muskets. It was also a huge loss to the colonists because
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