carbines and rifles. Heavy cavalry composed of large and required big strong horses. As a result‚ there was a deficiency in speed and endurance. Body armor used included cuirass and helmet. The cuirass protected the soldiers against shots fired from muskets and pistols from long distances.
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The Triumphant Side of the American Revolution The American Revolution was a war between the thirteen colonies of America and the British that took place from 1775 to 1783. The colonies‚ which had not yet been unified‚ wanted freedom from the domineering British and their "taxation without representation". This saying‚ coined up twenty years prior to the beginning of the war‚ was a major slogan for the revolutionaries. The quote means‚ "If citizens are not represented in the government‚ then the
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From the beginning of time of the United States‚ man has always dealt with serious issues dealing with daily life struggles and lack of inefficiency for producing of certain items‚ leading to a better enlightenment of living and the beginning of the making of a nation made up of immigrants. Since the 18th century‚ the United States has funded dreams to come true for fleeing immigrants from socio-economic problems since the innovation of many brilliant inventors have come to play‚ to provide jobs
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Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford’s "On Plymouth Plantation" The Puritan people first came to the New World to escape the religious persecution that hounded Non-Anglicans in England. They established the Plymouth Colony in 1620‚ in what is now Massachusetts. The colony was a reflection of the Puritans’ beliefs. These beliefs‚ along with the experience of establishing a colony in "the middle of nowhere"‚ affected the writings of all who were involved with the colony. In this writing
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Sam Houston …came from Scots-Irish descended‚ family of 9 siblings‚ born on March 2‚ 1793. His family were mbrs of the slaveholding gentry of western Virginia. He came from Rock Bridge County in Virginia where his family owned a Timber Ridge Plantation. …his dad‚ John Houston‚ served in the revolution as captain in the Daniel Morgan Rifle Brigade. He enjoyed military life and remained in the Virginia Militia after the war serving as a brigade inspector and attaining the rank of major in 1803.
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I EXPLORATIONS The Pilgrims were hungry and weak from scurvy after two months at sea by the time the Mayflower anchored in the icy waters on the bay side of Cape Cod in the winter of 1620. Miles Standish led a small group of explorers on desperate scouting missions that predate the landing at Plymouth Rock First Encounter By Stephen Harrigan ‘I I NDIANS! INDIANS!” one of the members of the Mayflower’s shore party screamed as he came running in from the woods toward a
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limits and will kill any American‚ regardless of age‚ when it suits his purpose. In the movie‚ The Patriot‚ it shows us warfare‚ 1700’s style. When neat columns of men stood face to face and blasted away at each other with hand held canons called muskets. If when they couldn’t get a shot off‚ they hacked away at each other with swords and bayonets for good measure. Americans quickly discovered that face to face compact with the most powerful army in the world. Fighting in an open field was not a
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The modern binary number system‚ the basis for binary code‚ was discovered by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679 and appears in his article Explication de l’Arithmétique Binaire. The full title is translated into English as the "Explanation of the binary arithmetic"‚ which uses only the characters 1 and 0‚ with some remarks on its usefulness‚ and on the light it throws on the ancient Chinese figures of Fu Xi."[1] (1703). Leibniz’s system uses 0 and 1‚ like the modern binary numeral system. Leibniz encountered
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manuals‚ be commanded by one general * Austrian soldiers were less educated and from different ethnicities: couldn’t read written manuals‚ didn’t speak the same language‚ couldn’t be commanded by one person 2) Developments * Needleguns vs. Muskets (5 shots in the time of 1) * Railroads: transport troops by train; owned 56% of railroads * Advanced weaponry; advanced way to transport troops; efficient * Austrians tools were outdated and less effective 3) Strong Leadership
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The poem “The Colored Soliders” by Paul Laurence Dunbar describes the period of the American Civil War of (1861-1865) which was a war where only the ‘whites’ were considered competent and worthy enough to fight. “These battles are the white man’s‚ and the whites will fight them out” (Dunbar‚ 11‚ 12). In the poem‚ Dunbar states that the blacks were only deemed worthy to fight when the ‘white’s’ discovered they could not win the war. ‘The Colored Soldiers’‚ written by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a reflection
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