British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton 1‚100 men Battle of Cowpens - Date: Morgan and Tarleton clashed on January 17‚ 1781. Battle of Cowpens - Background: After taking command of the battered American army in the South‚ Major General Nathanael Greene divided his forces in December 1780. While Greene led one wing of the army towards supplies at Cheraw‚ SC‚ the other‚ commanded by Brigadier General Daniel Morgan‚ moved to attack the British supply lines and stir up support in the
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Movie: The Patriot Characters: Benjamin Martin is a farmer and was a member of the military during the Seven Years War. He had lost his wife and joins the Revolutionary War due to the loss of his 15 year old son. He is promoted to colonel in the continental army and leads his eldest son to find recruits to stall General Cornwallis until the French arrive. He uses hit and run tactics to take out many British soldiers‚ many of these battles taking place in the swamps. Gabriel Martin is Benjamin’s
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losses. Soon he is promoted to Colonel and given command to the 54th Massachusetts volunteer infantry; the first all black regiment. The first volunteer to sign up is an educated black man named Thomas Searles who is also Shaws friend. Many more men join the regiment including an escaped slave named Trip‚ a free black man named Jupiter Sharts‚ as well as the gravedigger Rawlins. After realizing the regiment in never going to be more than anything but manual labor‚ Colonel Shaw confronts his superiors
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Francois Rabelais‚ the ‘great perhaps’‚ Miles leaves his family in Florida and moves to Alabama to complete his final two years of school at Culver Creek Preparatory School. Miles is befriended by his gifted roommate‚ Chip‚ who prefers the name “The Colonel”‚ and included in the Colonel’s group of friends‚ among them Alaska‚ vibrant‚ charismatic and dynamic‚ but also deeply depressed. Alaska is not only brilliant at devising pranks‚ but drinks and has sexual intercourse. When Miles falls for (and lusts
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After the Commander of the Chilean Forces‚ General Erasmo Escala resigned as a result of his continued discrepancies with the War Minister; the later promoted General Manuel Baquedano‚ a veteran from the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy war‚ who enjoyed the sympathies and respect of the soldiers. The units under the command of General Baquedano were cohesive. An example of this happened during the Battle of Tacna. The criticized frontal attack tactics exposed the Chilean formations to the effects of fires
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Colonel Munro is the commander of the English Fort William Henry‚ and is the father of Cora and Alice. He is devastated by the necessary surrender of the fort to the French‚ and deeply distressed by the capture of his daughters and the subsequent murder of Cora. Alice is the younger daughter of Colonel Munro. She is fair-skinned‚ with golden hair and blue eyes. She is presented as being weak and emotional‚ although on occasions she does show some courage‚ as when she prefers to die rather than win
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showed the theme of friendship when a their close friend‚ Alaska Young died. Pudge‚ the Colonel‚ Takumi‚ and Lara‚ pulled a risky prank which would cause each of them to be expelled immediately if it was found that one of them were involved in the prank. The Colonel and Alaska had come up with the prank and were going to do it the next year as it would be senior year. However‚ because Alaska had passed‚ the Colonel decided it was best to execute the prank in their junior year so the prank would be dedicated
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which he moved on to television shows to include: Route 66 and The Outer Limits. His first appeared on screen in his first film debut‚ The Incident in 1967. Apocalypse Now was released in 1979‚ based in 1967 on a story of an Army Special Forces Colonel who went rogue in the jungles of Cambodia during the Vietnam war. This movie starts out portraying Sheens character‚ Captain Willard‚ as a very unconventional soldier‚ showing him waking from a drunken bender at random South Vietnamese hotel. Sheen
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his actions would cause on his friends and family around him. Which persuaded Colonel Graff that if he couldn’t make Ender fear himself and what he could become if unhinged ‚ and transform in to peter or worse . The next method used in Enders
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Even though Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Aureliano Jose at least attempt to change caught up in the cycle‚ revolution that is not for the right cause and selfish is negative. Their solitudes are still there after their attempt to change and their changes bring nothing
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