Somewhere in France Somewhere in France Dear Mother‚ March 1 It’s been months since I last wrote a letter to you – and that was when I was still a trainee. I’m really joyful and thankful that I had the chance to receive your letter before winter. I terribly miss you and I hope I did not make you worry. The censorship is still being done; but I am grateful that I was able to send a letter earlier than expected. Right now‚ I’m writing in a nearby casualty clearing station – recovering
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German Army". Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare and marked the end of trench warfare on the Western Front * The Battle of Amiens was the first to incorporate an all-armed co-ordinated attack‚ bringing together artillery‚ tanks‚infantry and aircraft. The course of the battle * The battle began at 4:20 am on 8 August 1918. Under Henry Rawlinson’s Fourth Army‚ they attacked north of the Somme‚ the Australian Corps to the south of the river in the centre of Fourth
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They developed comradeship in the battle‚ such that they would do anything to help a fellow soldier. The thing that soldiers feared most in the war was the artillery shells which were designed to be exploding some meters above the ground‚ this would result to red hot metal pieces‚ and shrapnel balls that would easily injure an individual. Also‚ the explosion would also blow a person to bits. This is one of the
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towards the rail junction at Amiens. For the first time the manoeuvre appeared to be successful since 1914. The battle continued. • Germans defeated the British Empire and French Empire by using novel infiltration tactics. The German army used artillery in small groups‚ attacking French and British in their weak points and isolating from others. That allowed German army to isolate French and British from each other and destroy opponent’s troops. • Ludendorff ‘s plan was to push the British back
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Why did the stalemate end in 1918? By 1918 the western front was still in the middle of a stalemate‚ but now it looked like there might be a breakthrough that would lead to the end of the war. Even though defensive weapons had ben largely developed and were extremely dangerous offensive weapons had started to be developed largely. I believe the stalemate ended in 1918 due to several reason but mainly because of the entry of the USA into the war but there were other key factors such as the British
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describes the horrific and unthinkable events of World War I by going deeper than the average "war novel‚" allowing the reader to engage more. The author reveals that World War I is different than the other wars before it because it details the artillery and the civilians’ lives. It also reveals that World War I is a trench and chemical warfare which is new.
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The first rocketeer was a Greek named Archytas who lived in the city of Tarentum‚ which is in modern day Italy. Around the year 400 B.C.‚ he flew a pigeon made of wood. It was hung on wires and was propelled by escaping steam. The pigeon used the Newton’s Third Law‚ which was not theorized until the 17th century. About three hundred years after the pigeon‚ another Greek who was called “Hero of Alexandria”‚ created another‚ similar‚ invention that he called an aeolipile. The aeolipile was a rotund
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A Column of British Soldiers marched out on the morning of April 19‚ 1775 toward the town of Lexington‚ Massachusetts. A small band of seventy-seven colonial militiamen stood their way. The shot heard around the world occurred in this time period as the outnumbered Americans retreated‚ thus starting the American War of Independence. Six years later‚ on October 19‚ 1781‚ Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown‚ Virginia to the joint forces of General George Washington and French General
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In the early 1900s the modernist believed that there art should show the true nature of society and the world that the Victorian society never allowed anyone to see. The extreme advancement of technology and medical science that was created during the industrial revolution sent the world into a massive shift with people going from having strict religious views‚ along with being taught how to act and dress. To having varying religious views and dressing and acting in ways that have never been seen
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Communication 1930s and 1990s Communication and technology has grown over the past few decades after making of the first phone. The 1930’s wasn’t a very communicational or technological decade. On the other hand‚ the 1990’s was a very erupting decade with technology and communications. There are major differences between those two decades including phones‚ how mail is distributed‚ and how to inform people. The 1930s was a very poor time due to the economy outburst in the market. One communicational
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