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    leading the U.S armed force Major General Leonard Wood and the U.S soldiers were armed with the latest assault rifles and small fire arms of their time‚ and artillery. The moro were villagers with clubs and other bludgeoning devices‚ machetes and crude muskets. The battle occurred in a crater. The moro were situated in the crater and american forces attacking‚ and the depth was fifty (50) feet. Before the battle began Major General Woods gave the command “Kill or capture the six hundred.”

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    allowed people to imitate the invention of the cotton gin and call it their own. Due to this loophole‚ Whitney only profited minimally from his invention. All was not lost for Whitney. He finally became wealthy by inventing a way to manufacture muskets with interchangeable parts. Benjamin Thompson was born in 1753 and he was a leading figure in the history of thermodynamics. He denied the current belief that heat was a liquid form of matter‚ instead proposing that it was a type of motion. He

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    Assess the causes of the Indian Mutiny Throughout the Indian mutiny there were numerous factors‚ mainly due to British imperialism‚ that caused and had significant impact on the Indian nation. Through the course of the Indian mutiny economic‚ Cultural‚ Armies and the Enfield rifle incident caused the Indian Mutiny. These factors bundled together and impacted together which contributed to widespread uprising and the India Mutiny. British Imperialism caused economic and political strain on the

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    probably the only reason people can own a weapon‚ is outdated‚ and limited. According to napolun.com‚ "Marshal Maurice de Saxe wrote: ’Light infantry should be able to fire 6 shots a minute‚ but under the stress of battle 4 should be allowed for.’"(Muskets were a gun that was widely used in the American Revolution) . However‚ more modern guns such as the AK-47‚ had a cyclic rate of fire at 600 rounds per minute‚ according to web.archive.org. With this information‚ we can conclude that with the standards

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    “occurred on march 5‚ 1770.On evening of the march 5‚ a lone British sentry guarded the entrance to the Boston Customs house where officials collected import duties for the king .The sentry got into an argument with a barber’s apprentice and swung his musket at him ‚ hitting the boy on the head .Other apprentices gathered ‚daring the sentry to fight . A squad of British soldiers came to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling ‚snowballing crowd .‚let loose a valley of shots .British soldiers

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    January 11‚ 2010 English II All Encompassing Assignment Jean Valjean “He strained his eyes in the distance and called out . . . “Petit Gervais! . . .” His cries died away into the mist‚ without even awaking an echo. . . . his knees suddenly bent under him‚ as if an invisible power suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his bad conscience; he fell exhausted . . . and cried out‚ “What a wretch I am!” (page 43) Monsieur Madeleine “To remain in paradise and there become a

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    The American Revolution fundamentally changed American considerably politically because Americans rely on democracy rather than monarchy‚ socially because the roles of certain social groups experienced a nuance change‚ and economically because the Americans freed themselves from having to send their raw materials to England and started to manufacture their own products. The American Revolution changed American politically by allowing the people to be governed by representation‚ a central government

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    This week’s topic should defiantly bring difference in opinions about a turning point of the Civil War. I am going to throw out there that in my opinion a turning point in the war was not reliant on one battle‚ one executive order‚ or one weapon evolution‚ but a combination these complimenting each other lead to a turning point movement for a lack of a better term. I suggest that Gettysburg is a major event in the Union’s favor‚ but if left standing alone without events such as the victory at Antietam

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    Cho‚ Jeffrey 10-9-14 Per. 5 Zinn Chapter 8 "We Take Nothing by Conquest Thank God" In Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States‚ the main emphasis in chapter eight is the reasons that the United States waged war with Mexico and how the government influenced the citizens to show support for the war. The main reason for the U.S. invasion of Mexican territory was to increase the land mass of America as well as to show dominance over the Mexican race. Although the middle class‚ foreigners

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    Henry is gone. Dead. In the same place as my mother. I watched him die‚ my eyes wide and my heart shattered. The musket hit him in the chest‚ and he fell into the muddy earth. I could not stop to see if he was alright. I must keep going‚ keep shooting.... I mustn’t cry‚ Von will scold me‚ Von Steuben will slap me. Nothing could hurt more than losing a friend such as Henry‚ however. I’d have taken fifty slaps from Von Steuben if Henry could somehow still be here today. America was my cause.

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