and Camden. The battle was starting to turn in Georgia and South Carolina which forced the British north. The global superpower of Great Britain was involved in the American Revolution in full force as well as‚ First Anglo-Maratha War‚ Fourth Anglo-Dutch War‚ and the Second Anglo-Mysore War. The British Empire was fighting across the planet with the French‚ Dutch‚ and the Spanish. All this fighting is weakening the British Empire and its people. It was four years since the Battle of Saratoga‚ the
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Vimy Ridge The battle at Vimy Ridge was one of the most important and a major battle in world war one. It occurred along the path the Canadians took south to get from Belgium into northern part of France. It happened on April 9th‚ 1917‚ it has officially been one hundred years since this horrific battle. The Canadians‚ led by Sir. Arthur William Currie‚ attacked the German soldiers on a seven-kilometre grave yard (from another battle) on a ridge. The reason the Canadians and their allies wanted to
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Why was General Custer Defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn? History The Battle of Little Bighorn was a conflict‚ which changed the history of the Indians and Americans. It was in 1876‚ that Sitting Bull combined forces with the Cheyenne and Sioux Native American tribes‚ defeating the U.S 7th Cavalry‚ under the leadership of George Armstrong Custer. But how could a highly trained‚ heavily armed cavalry officer and his command be defeated by a group of Native American Indians? General
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Alamo and the fight for Texas’ independence‚ there were a handful of people that gave first-person accounts of certain events that occurred. These individuals were eyewitnesses throughout the Battle of the Alamo and their stories are quite captivating. One of these individuals was just a child during the battle of the Alamo and his name was Enrique Esparza. According to his account written and quoted in The San Antonio Light‚ he and his family found themselves heading to the Alamo due to General Santa
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Battle of Yorktown During the American Revolution‚ the Americans and French (Franco-American coalition) fought the British at the Battle of Yorktown also known as “The Siege of Yorktown”. The Americans and the French fielded a combined force of roughly 16‚000 soldiers to defeat the British force estimated at 7‚000 soldiers. American General George Washington and French Lieutenant General de Rochambeau led the American and French soldiers. The British commanding officer was Major General Lord Cornwallis
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Christians and Muslims in the sixteenth century. The Christians of Europe were made up mostly of Spanish‚ Venetian‚ and Papal forces battle against their Muslims foes hailing from the Ottoman Empire. These two adversaries displayed very distinct battle tactics‚ however‚ both sides played a role in one of the most bloodies naval battles in history on October 7th 1571 at the Battle of Lepanto. Through the course of history‚ it appeared that the Ottomans were always on the offensive‚ whether they were charging
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The Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC‚ an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered‚ the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history’s most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle‚ a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that
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The battle of Thermopylae was a classic underdog story‚ with a small group of determined soldiers fighting a vast‚ impenetrable army. This conflict was much like The Battle of Morgarten between Austria and Switzerland in 1315. Duke Leopold I of Austria‚ decided to put Europe’s mutual hatred of the Swiss to good use by invading the country with a force of anywhere between 3‚000 and 5‚000 foot soldiers and cavalry. According to chronicler Johannes Vitoduranus‚ "The men of this army came together
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In Beowulf‚ the main character Beowulf battles three different monsters. He battles Grendel‚ Grendel’s mother‚ and the dragon. These battles have its similarities and its differences. In his first battle against Grendel‚ the author displays Beowulf and Grendel as being very aggressive. The tone displayed in this duel is praising because of the author’s description of Beowulf’s heroism. From the description of Beowulf‚ the author states that “his courage‚ his bravery‚ and his wisdom had been known
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Battle Royal Discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal” is about how when he was a young African American male he was asked to attend a gathering of the elite white males of society to reiterate a graduation speech he had given at his own graduation. Upon going to the gathering the young boy is face with the games the white men insist he take part in with others of his same race‚ which the main game is the “Battle Royal” (1043 ). After being forced to take part in some demeaning games the young man
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