Battle of Somme With over seven months of vigorous planning came one of the bloodiest battles in military history during World War I‚ known as the Battle of Somme. The four month Battle of Somme was the cause of over one million lives‚ endeavoring to conquer the Western Front between France and Germany. Among the amount of artillery shells intended to support the British‚ projected to be substantial in paving the way for ground troops to triumph over the enemy force. The battle‚ originally planned
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casualties‚ and 18‚000 Confederate casualties‚ the Battle of Chickamauga was known as the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War‚ closely following the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union and the Confederacy were fighting for the two railroad lines that ran through Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. On September 19th and 20th‚ 1863‚ the Battle of Chickamauga was fought in the counties of Catoosa and Walker‚ Georgia. Chickamauga got many different nicknames after the battle‚ including “death-knell” and “the river of
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different battles. The first one is with Grendal‚ the second with Grendal’s mother‚ and the final one with the dragon. These battles show a lot about Beowulf and his men. The first major similarity between these battles is that Beowulf for the most part he fights alone. During the first battle Beowulf fights against not only Grendal‚ but also against his men which shows how good of a fighter Beowulf because he was able to defeat them even though he was outnumbered. In his second battle‚ when fighting
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The original manuscript of the ‘Battle of Maldon’ was destroyed in the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Some of the poem has been lost however‚ it is not entirely clear how much. Consequently‚ this poem is a particularly difficult poem to comprehend as it is unclear what this poem is clearly trying to convey as readers are unsure what the entirety of the poem is about due to the loss of the beginning and end of the manuscript. The ‘Battle of Maldon’ poses a challenge to scholars as there are two
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The Losing Battle Obesity has been an upcoming battle in the United States. According to Healthgoods.com one in three Americans ageing from 20yrs to 70yrs is facing obesity problems. Also at Healthgoods.com it states that not just the adults who are facing these problems‚ but children ageing from 6yrs up to 17 yrs range about one in five who are over weight. Having the will to loose those extra pounds in order to look and feel better is a powerful tool in the fight against obesity. Obesity
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The Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13‚ 1862‚ involved nearly 200‚000 combatants‚ the largest concentration of troops in any Civil War battle. Ambrose Burnside‚ the newly appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac‚ had ordered his more than 120‚000 troops to cross the Rappahannock River‚ where they made a two-pronged attack on the right and left flanks of Robert E. Lee’s 80‚000-strong Army of Northern Virginia at Fredericksburg. On both ends‚ Lee’s rebel defenders turned back the Union assault
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The Battle of Cambrai (November 20th- December 4th 1917). It was fought in Cambrari‚ France. It was the British against the Germans. The significance of the battle was that it was the first battle that actually used tanks
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Violence for the Lord? (An Essay on the Violence in “The Battle of Maldon”) The Battle of Maldon is a historic piece‚ which portrays violence in an absolutely beautiful way. Violence is not simply the act of fighting‚ but it serves the purpose of being one hundred percent loyalty to your people and to the lord. While we typically imagine battle to be bloody and horrifying‚ The Battle of Maldon shows us the emotional aspect to fighting. The soldiers involved‚ Eadwaeard‚ Aetheric‚ and Godric‚ among
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the battle of little bighorn is tThe Battle of the Little Big Horn ensured for General George Custer the fame he had always wanted. His death and the destruction of those men in the US Army’s Seventh Cavalry who fought with him by the largest gathering of Native American warriors that the country had seen‚ immortalised Custer in films‚ books and in the psyche of Americans. Paintings by the likes of Edgar Paxson and Kurz and Allison portrayed Custer as the all-American hero fighting with his men to
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that evening‚ 23‚000 dead and wounded soldiers from Union and Confederate troops lay on the bloodied fields. Because of this‚ the Battle of Antietam (also known as the Cornfield and the Battle of Sharpsburg) will go down as the “Bloodiest Day in American History.” No other single day‚ not even 9/11‚ will match the pure carnage of this day. Antietam was a crucial battle‚ not only for the Union army‚ but also for the Confederates. The Union army‚ led by General George McClellan‚ was looking for their
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