The Battle of Passchendaele Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres‚ Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties‚ but also for the mud. It was a combination of the Environment‚ Tactics and Poor Leadership that lead to the AIF’s losing the battle of Passchendaele. On 9 October 1917‚ British divisions‚ with the AIF in support‚ attacked towards Passchendaele village in terrible conditions. In the mud and rain the effort proved futile but the high command thought
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search Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2000 | Born | Lars Trier 30 April 1956 (age 56) Kongens Lyngby‚ Denmark | Occupation | Film director and screenwriter | Influenced by | Andrei Tarkovsky‚ Carl Theodor Dreyer‚ Ingmar Bergman‚ Stanley Kubrick‚ Douglas Sirk‚ David Lynch‚ Michelangelo Antonioni‚ Jørgen Leth‚ Erich von Stroheim‚ Josef von Sternberg‚ Bertolt Brecht | Spouse(s) | Cæcilia Holbek (m. 1987–1995)[1] Bente Frøge (m. 1997–present) | Lars von Trier (Danish: [ˈlɑːs
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Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Nazi Germany is nothing less than astounding. In a little over a year‚ one man completely manipulated an entire government and legal system to acquire a totalitarian regime. What many are not aware of is how Hitler’s strategy arose. After a failed coup attempt in 1923‚ a short stay in prison and a controversial novel‚ Adolf Hitler abandoned his ideas that force was the sole solution in achieving complete control over Germany. His second attempt revolved around
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Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier who later became a major military thinker of the 19th century. Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss man that joined the French revolution and even joining Russia and would become the most popular thinker of his time. Both Jomini and Clausewitz share many similarities more than their differences yet they both do focus on two different camps of ideas‚ the importance of strategy and chaos in war. One of Jomini’s main points of interest in war
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On May 2‚ 1892 Manfred von Richthofen was born. This was the man who would become the Red Baron. He became an important part of Germany’s war effort and a national hero. He was an integral part of Germany’s success in the air‚ and an inspiration to many. During World War 1‚ the concept of fighting while in the air‚ in airplanes‚ had just been introduced. As the war went on‚ people looked for heroes. Manfred von Richthofen became one of those heroes. As he became a better and better ace‚ he became
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America’s role in the Second Battle at Marne Anne Bisarek His/125 September 18‚ 2013 Laura Gaurdino University of Phoenix University of Phoenix World War I began in 1914 and ended in 1918. The cause of the war was the numerous disagreements throughout Europe over territory and boundaries. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austrian throne‚ and his wife Sophia by a Serb Nationalist sparked the beginning of the war. Austria declared war on Serbia which Russia helped‚ which
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Hans von Gersdorff: Feldbuch der Wundarzney (Field book of surgery) (Page 16V)‚ 1517 The above diagram is from a medicine book published in 1517 by a German surgeon Hans von Gersdorff‚ showing the points of bloodletting‚ we can see that there are nearly 50 points of bloodletting distributed in all parts of the body. The diagram also shows a dissection of a male human body with most of the organs shown‚ it seems that people at time or before that time already did a lot of experiments and dissections
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HOW TO WRITE A BATTLE ANALYSIS 1. Purpose. To provide guidance on writing the battle analysis. 2. Learning Objective. The student must prepare a battle analysis that demonstrates the ability to use military history to develop critical thinking skills. Focus your analysis on one of the following issues: a. Evaluate the commander ’s intent. b. Analyze one aspect of METT-T. c. Analyze the relationship between fire support and any other element of the battlefield operating
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A Deceitful and Untrustworthy Beast Within “The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions‚ but by iron and blood” Otto Von Bismarck once advocated. This quote generalizes this Iron-chancellor’s attitude towards change. He highlights the importance of wars depicted by Iron which symbolizes Artillery and weaponry‚ and blood which symbolizes patriotic death. His perception of change was strongly reinforced by the necessity for strong arms and military
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Why did the Greeks win the battle of marathon? The Athenians won the battle of Marathon because of skilled leadership from Miltiades‚ the Athenian and Plataean hoplites‚ good terrain‚ and morale. Miltiades was the commander during the Battle of Marathon. He had spent time in the Chersonese which gave him possible Persian tactics. Miltiades decided that because the Persian cavalry was so large in numbers the Athenians would spread out and make the center the weakest part with the wings the strongest
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