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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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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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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teacher‚ he decided to enlist in the militia as a lowly gunner in the 5th Regiment at the Canadian Garrison Artillery. In 1901‚ Currie married Lucy and found a better-paying job at an insurance firm at Matson and Coles (Dancocks‚ 1985). With great devotion to his wife and two children‚ the militia was still one of Currie ’s priorities and he became a commander of the 5th Regiment of Artillery‚ winning the Governor-General ’s Cup for efficiency (Hyatt‚ 1987). On the 4th of August in 1914‚ the British
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A ha-ha is a turfed ditch with one sloped side‚ and one vertical side that is faced with a masonry retaining wall. A ha-ha is a feature used in landscape garden design to keep grazing livestock out of a garden while providing an uninterrupted view from within. Before mechanical lawnmowers‚ a common way to keep large areas of grassland trimmed was to allow livestock‚ usually sheep‚ to graze the grass. A ha-ha prevented grazing animals on large estates from gaining access to the lawn and gardens adjoining
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nature of warfare. In evaluating the importance of these factors in comparison to that of technological advances it will be possible to make a sustained analysis. During the 19th Century‚ key technological developments were made. These included artillery‚ rifles and communications. It is evident that these advances significantly affected the nature of warfare. For example‚ whereas previously soldiers had been forced to fight at close quarters‚ the development of guns such as the Needle Rifle in the
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evaluating the importance of these factors in comparison to that of technological advances it will be possible to make a sustained analysis. During the 19th Century‚ key technological‚ both military and non-military developments were made. These included artillery‚ rifles and communications. It is apparent that these advances significantly affected the nature of warfare. For example‚ whereas formerly soldiers had been required to fight at close quarters‚ the development of guns such as the Needle Rifle in
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