Northern Virginia‚ General Meade headed the Union’s Army of the Potomac. Both sides saw the need to win that one‚ crucial victory to turn the tide completely in their favor. They would get their chances at a small town in Pennsylvania. The battle was dubbed the Battle of Gettysburg for the town of Gettysburg‚ PA. By June of 1863 General Lee asked President Davis to march his army north out of VA. Davis granted Lee permission. Lee‚ with 75‚000 troops‚ made his way north‚ just west of the Blue Ridge
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking‚ the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers‚ inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign‚ the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. This fleet
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BATTLE OF JITRA INTRODUCTION 1. Some two months before the fall of Singapore‚ the history of East Asia was forever transformed by the surprising attack across the Malay Peninsular. The sole objective was the capture of Singapore by land. Within a few days of the landing of the invasion forces‚ the fate of Asia will be played out on the field nearby a town called Jitra. 2. The Battle of Jitra which lasted less than two days will ultimately foretell the density that waits that the British
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Battle of France (Case Yellow) Throughout all of World War I the German objective was to occupy the country of France. In the four years of fighting on the Western Front in World War I‚ Germany failed to break through the lines of the French and never captured Paris. In May of 1940 Germany would try again as they used very similar tactics to those of the Von Schlieffen plan used by the Germans twenty five years before. The French had built massive defenses along the eastern border of France
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Name: Dan Kenneth Abellar Course: BSTrM The Battle of Mactan INTRODUCTION: A pleasant morning to all of you tourists! I am Dan Kenneth Abellar‚ you can call me ’Ken’ for short.I am studying at Colegio de San Antonio de Padua taking up Bachelor of Science in Travel Management. I am your tourguide for today and I’ll be explaining to all of you a brief history about how the Battle of Mactan started. HISTORY: It was on April 7‚1521 when the three remaining galleons under the command of
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Battle of Berlin After having driven their troops across Poland and into Germany‚ Soviet forces began planning an offensive attack against Berlin. The campaign would be entirely conducted by the Red Army on the ground. The Red Army massed Marshal Georgy Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front to the east of Berlin with Marshal Konstantin Rokossovky’s 2nd Belorussian Front to the north and Marshal Ivan Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front to the south. Going against the Soviets was General Gotthard Heinrici’s Army
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It was the beginning of one of the most significant battles on the Pacific Front of World War II. The Battle of the Guadalcanal took place on August 7th of 1942‚ when the United States Marines landed on the Guadalcanal. The landing at the Guadalcanal was unchallenged and it took Americans six months to defeat the Japanese which turned into a battle of attrition. After the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Midway‚ Americans thought of taking back the Pacific Islands and the first confrontation was
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Nov. 7 2009 Battle of Algiers Originally released in 1965 and banned by the French‚ Gillo Pontecorvo ’s historical film masterpiece has been called "One of the most remarkable films of all time". (IMDB) Commissioned by the Algerian government‚ Pontecorvo ’s film brings us into the middle of the 1954 to 1962 Franco-Algerian conflict and the struggle that faced both the Algerians and the French colonials who had occupied the nation since the 1830s. In the 1960s the French Foreign Legion had pulled
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The Battle For Berlin Ethan Rowe Mr. Powell Period 8 In May of 1945 the concluding battle of World War II in Europe was taken place. From the Allies side of the battle there were many different generals working together to accomplish the goal of decisively defeating Germany. For Soviet Premier Josef Stalin‚ Berlin was the major prize and he feared that the Red Army might be beaten to the city by Field
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The Battle of Gettysburg‚ one of the most well-known battles of the civil war‚ was considered to be one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the civil war. It is thought to be one of the most decisive battles because the Confederacy marched into the north after a victory but were then beat and forced to retreat‚ after this they never fully recovered eventually leading to the Union winning. In the 3 days it lasted some where between 46‚000 and 50‚000 casualties occurred‚ 8‚000 of those being
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