WAEGWAN‚ South Korea (Sept. 29‚ 2014) -- As North Korean forces advanced south in the fall of 1950‚ waging a vicious war‚ the nation of South Korea and United Nations forces were pushed to a small southeastern area on the tip of the Korean peninsula‚ known as the Pusan perimeter‚ where they would stand to defend the suddenly prominent Nakdong River‚ later to be known as the "pivot" of the Korean War. "Either protect the Nakdong line or die trying..." were the words made famous by Gen. Walton Walker
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for naught‚ as Tarleton’s men were soon leaderless‚ and running headlong into a trap. This brings me to the third avenue utilized by Morgan; the continental army regulars. Morgan set these men up in the third and final row‚ along with a group of cavalry men behind a knoll that kept them out of view from Tarleton. Once Tarleton’s men gave chase to the retreating militia‚ the regulars stood ready to fire a volley at the advancing
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The Battle of Gettysburg: Strategies Invested and Who is to Blame Historiographical Essay Prepared by: John Smith HISTORY 480‚ Historiography Dr. Smith Washington University Spring 2011 The American Civil War is a time in America’s history that is full of debatable topics. The country was split in two and was threatened with potential division if the North didn’t prevail in reeling the dissenting group of states of the South back into the Union. The war was complete with pivotal moments
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troops or known as the Thornton Affair. The Thornton Affair was an attack on U.S. cavalry in disputed territory near the Rio Grande. The Mexicans killed 16 of the cavalry and forced the troops to surrender. This evidence shows the US was justified in going to war with Mexico because they attacked US troops for no reason. To support this in Document B‚ it states “They became
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Hernan Cortes‚ a fierce Spanish conquistador‚ landed at San Juan de Ulua‚ in April 1519. With him‚ Cortes had 508 soldiers‚ one hundred sailors‚ artillery cannons‚ eleven ships and sixteen horses. Cortes and his small army‚ marched through Mexico‚ forming alliances with Aztec rivals‚ until reaching the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the massive Mexican empire known as the Aztecs or Mexica. It had a population of 200‚000 people; almost three times that of the largest
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The Battle of Cambrai‚ from the 20th November to the 7th December 1917‚ was the first British campaign in World War One that tanks were used successfully by demonstrating the fact that the Hindenburg line could be penetrated. The town of Cambrai is in the North of France near the border between France and Germany. By 1917‚ Cambrai had become one of the most important railheads and HQ towns behind the German lines. In front of it lay the immensely powerful Siegfried Stellung - better known to the
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How can it be that the Aztecs‚ one of the greatest and strongest civilisations of its time‚ be defeated by only a few hundred men? The answers to this question are many but the one we shall explore is that of the factors that gave the Spanish soldiers the advantage over the Aztecs. The main factor that led to the victory of the Spanish Conquerors was the Aztec religion. The Aztecs had many myths about their gods however the most important was the story about Quetzacóatl (ket-zahl-co-ah-tul)‚ the
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General Douglas Haig General Haig was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland on June 19‚ 1861. He was the 11th child; his dad was a whiskey distiller. He graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. When he first joined the war efforts‚ he started off as an officer. Then he worked his way up and successfully became the commander of the British 1st Army by 1918. He retired in 1921‚ and then he died of a heart attack in London on Jan. 28‚ 1928. Despite his amazing reputation‚ he was human. During
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Renault FT which set the basic designs for tanks‚ with a centered turret and rear mounted engine. Up until the 1930s the interwar period between world war one and world war two the world of armor was rather silent‚ Then the U.S. cavalry adopted the M1 combat car to allow the cavalry units to move with speed and protection‚ it had a twin mounted 7.62 machine guns mounted in the turret which was latter replaced with one 37mm cannon. This tank however never saw combat. The M2 light tank was then manufactured
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The Collision at Cajamarca | | | Jared Diamond --COLLISION AT CAJAMARCA THE BIGGEST POPULATION SHIFT OF MODERN TIMES HAS been the colonization of the New World by Europeans‚ and the resulting conquest‚ numerical reduction‚ or complete disappearance of i1OSt groups of Native Americans (American Indians). As I explained in Chapter I‚ the New World was initially colonized around or before 11‚000 BCE by way of Alaska‚ the Bering Strait‚ and Siberia. Complex agricultural societies gradually
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