2011 The Battle of Issus Sometime around 310 BCE an artist by the name of Philoxenus of Eretria created a mosaic (creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored material) of the Battle of Issus that has long been considered one of the greatest artworks of antiquity. Found at the House of the Faun in Pompeii in 1831 the mosaic is composed of about one and a half million tiny individual colored tiles called tesserae. The artwork illustrates the battle in which
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Persian wars Now to the Persian wars. The Persian wars are a series of battles between Persia and Greece. The Persian Empire at the time stretched from the Indus valley to the Asia Minor and Egypt and was starting to get into Greece and Europe. A few city-states started to send solders to help their fellow Greeks. Nine years later Darius‚ the emperor of Persia at the time‚ started to take his revenge. The first invasion of Greece was in the plains of Marathon near Athens‚ a great and scholared city
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The first problem between the British and the Americans happened on April 19‚1775 in Massachusetts. General Thomas Gage wanted his men to ruin all of the Americans supplies and guns that were placed in Concord. He also wanted John Hancock and Sameul Adams to be arrested. Joseph Waren figured out Gage’s plan. He immediately called for William Dawes and Paul Revere to go to Concord and warn the minutemen to be ready. The two
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Why was the Battle of Gettysburg the turning point? Running Head:WHY WAS THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG THE TURNING POINT? Why was the Battle of Gettysburg the turning point? Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point? 2 Abstract This paper will look into on how
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(500 B.C. - 449 B.C)‚ many battles took place in this bloody war. Battles were fought on land and at sea. Sea battles played a major role during the war. The Athenian Fleet was among the most sophisticated and powerful navies to date that time. The Persian Armada seemed unbeatable with its vast number of ships and soldiers. The Athenian Navy had a higher kill ratio than the massive Persian Fleet. The Persians and the Athenians both used that same type of ship for sea battles‚ the trireme. A trireme
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July 1st‚ 1916‚ artillery flew everywhere‚ machine guns rang in the distance‚ millions dead. 57‚000 British‚ 8‚000 French and Germans already dead in the first 24 hours. This is the Battle of the Somme‚ held on the River Somme in France. 1.2 million casualties. It started with British General Douglas Haig coming up with an idea of a “great push” through German lines. It was a trench warfare‚ massive artillery bombardments‚ thousand of soldiers going “over the top” into No Mans Land‚ and already many
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victory in the battle of Britain. I will look at tactics‚ pilots‚ leadership‚ technology and weapons to help me explain this. The first and most important reason for the victory of the battle of britain was the technology used. Radar was a very important device only used by the british in the battle. Radar was used to detect enemy invation from up to 100 miles away. This enabled british fighter planes‚ the Hurricanes and the Spitfires‚ to get up into the air and prepare for battle. Britain was
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Arndt‚ Joshua Captain Wade MS III 02/16/2017 The Military Battle of Waterloo. The Battle of Waterloo‚ fought on June 18‚ 1815‚ was Napoleon Bonaparte’s last battle. "On 13 March 1815‚ six days before Napoleon reached Paris‚ the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw. Four days later‚ the United Kingdom‚ Russia‚ Austria‚ and Prussia mobilized armies to defeat Napoleon. Critically outnumbered‚ Napoleon knew that once his attempts at dissuading one or more of the Seventh Coalition
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110-01 May 8‚ 2013 The Significance of Battle of Bunker Hill The American Revolutionary War is the war that Americans overthrew the British colonial rule‚ won the independence and it is also the war that was conductive to the development of capitalism in the United States and helped the United States developed the capitalist economy. The Battle of Bunker Hill‚ as the early battle in this historical war‚ is also a significant battle during the war. The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17
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among the rotting carcass of their own fellow soldiers. During “The Battle of Somme”‚ in 1916‚ German soldiers was trained to spot how British officers dressed and was ordered to kill them. I also know from my own knowledge that before the battle had started‚ British forces had fired over 1‚700‚000 shells at the German soldiers‚ this potentially could have been a leading factor to make‚ “The Battle of Somme” the bloodiest battles of the war‚ or of any war before or since. Source A3 is a photograph
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