* Lord Cardigan led the Light Brigade against Russian troops. * Lord Raglan‚ who was the commander overall‚ had sent the Light Brigade pursue and attack a retreating Russian artillery battery (unit of guns)‚ but because of a mistake in communication‚ the Light Brigade was instead sent to a different artillery battery in frontal assault. Analysis First Paragraph The poem starts by with this line: ‘Half a league‚ Half a league‚ Half a league forward’. This is trying to portray the
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Sickles believed his position wasn’t adequate enough for his artillery unit and decided to push west to the Wheat Field‚ Peach Orchard‚ and a hillside later to be named the Devil’s Den (civilwar.org). This decision was made without the approval from General Meade and many casualties resulted of it. Luckily Meade decided
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WWI Summary ➢ War on the Western Front: ✓ The Reasons for the stalemate on the Western Front: Stalemate: Situation where neither side could make a successful breakthrough on the Western Front. The Schlieffen Plan; was the German strategic plan that was to be put into action if there was war against both France and Russia simultaneously. The Franco-Russian Alliance: alliance of 1893 stated that if either France or Russia were attacked by Germany‚ the other would assist
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or dropped into location by helicopter‚ and had a range of 12‚500 yards. Some of the common infantry weapons used were machine guns and rifles. The M-60 machine gun could be used by infantrymen or be attached to a helicopter or truck to provide artillery support. Standard issue for US soldiers in Vietnam was the gas-powered M-16‚ and rifle that could fire over a few hundred yards and was relatively easy to reload‚ and could be used on either an automatic or semi-automatic setting. North Vietnam
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Even though each soldier would have been involved in some form of continual conflict with serving on the front-line (trench rapids‚ snipers‚ shelling)‚ it is possible to distinguish major battles (or pushes) whose names have gone down in history as some of the bloodiest conflicts ever waged. There were many battles that took place during the war but the most remembered were the five major battles. Those battles are‚ The Battle of Marne (1914 and 1918)‚ The Battle of Verdun (1916)‚ The Battle of
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Canadian Wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele More than 15‚000 Canadians died or were wounded during the Battle of Passchendaele. Many of them drowned in the mud and shell holes. The mud‚ flat terrain‚ and relative lack of preparation time and artillery support would make Passchendaele a far different battlefield than the one the Canadians encountered at Vimy Ridge. Currie took the time to carefully prepare as much as possible and on October 26‚ the Canadian offensive began. Advancing through
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The 82nd Division was activated at Camp Gordon‚ Georgia‚ on 25 August 1917. It was one of the National Army divisions of conscript soldiers. As the Division filled‚ it was discovered there were soldiers from every state. Through a popular contest‚ the nickname "All American" was chosen to reflect the unique composition of the 82nd Division. On 25 April 1918‚ the Division sailed for Europe. The 325th Infantry Regiment was chosen to parade before the King of England on 11 May 1918 to show America’s
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Battle of Stalingrad Joseph Goebbels‚ a Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda once said ‘’A thousand years hence‚ every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put a seal on her victory.’’. As it turns out‚ Joseph was terribly wrong. The Battle of Stalingrad is typically referred to as the turning point of the Eastern Front. Hundreds of thousands of troops were poured into this one critical city. Stalingrad not only symbolized the leader of
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Germany was prepared for the war in August‚ 1914. The Schlieffen Plan was a huge plan of attack to be used in the event of a war which was announced by Count Von Schlieffen on the 31st of December‚ 1905 (9 years before the war started). The European powers (allies) heard about this plan in 1914 before the outbreak of the war. The idea was that the Germans would sweep across Holland and Belgium to the sea at Dunkirk‚ the area between forts at Verdun and the Dunkirk coast would be attacked by 35 army
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colonization. In this essay I will be looking more on the side of actually colonizing the country and not what happened after the colonization to make it “successful (gain in money‚ change in culture‚ etc.). Successful colonization depended on capital‚ artillery‚ medicinal advances‚ and transportation. Britain is one example of successful colonization from capital. Britain’s steam technologies and coal production gave them even bigger factories
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