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    Who fought in the battle? With half a million troops added to the German army‚ and with the Americans having not arrived in full force‚ Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff ordered a massive attack on the Allies to break the stalemate. General Julian Byng’s 3rd Army and General Hubert Gough’s 5th Army of the British Expeditionary Force were to be at the heart of the onslaught‚ along with some French and Portuguese divisions. Where (specifically) did the battle take place? (Include picture from

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    On January 17‚ 1781‚ the Battle of Cowpens ensued. This battle was a key battle in the American Revolution‚ and pitted 1100 well trained soldiers from Britain against 300 Continental Regulars and 700 Militiamen. The odds seemed overwhelming in favor of the Brits‚ but Brigadier General Daniel Morgan had different ideas on the outcome of this battle. Morgan was able to use certain aspect of his men and of the enemy to put together a plan that ultimately won the day. Morgan first and foremost knew

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    incentive. This fact became a very important factor in who would win the Civil War. Neither side could predict that the Civil War would become the bloodiest and deadliest war in the history of America with an average of 504 deaths per day. By the beginning the year 1863 the Civil War had been going on for almost two years and several important battles like the First Battle of Bull Run‚ the Battle of Shiloh‚ and the Seven Days Battle‚ had already been taking place. There was also a stalemate in the

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    History Mr Reynolds Explain why Richard III was defeated at the battle of Bosworth. Why Richard lost at the battle of Bosworth can be put into long and short-term factors. In the short term‚ to start with Richard outnumbered Tudor’s men 10000 to 5000 and were obviously favoured to be victorious‚ however when Richard tried to kidnap Tudor‚ this forced Tudor to seek help from the French. This allowed for King Charles to use henry as a means of unsettling the English Monarchy‚ to do this Charles gave

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    Introduction The purpose of this battle analysis is to understand how intelligence plays a key role in military operations using the Battle of Stalingrad as the focus of study. First point to consider is Hitler failed to heed the intelligence given to him by General Friedrich Paulus which resulted in the surrender of the German sixth army. A second point is that the Soviets maintained a very effective military deception campaign that allowed for a build-up of forces unknown to the Germans

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    We are Williams Lake Ignorance is the greatest challenge that man has yet to overcome; its ability to spread hatred makes it at fault for many of humanities problems. The only cure for such a wide-spread‚ and often deadly disease‚ is knowledge. Knowledge can be spread through many forms‚ but the most powerful way to spread it is through celebration. Celebrations allows for people to be surrounded by others in a place free from the things that divide us in the outside world. This is why Multicultural

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    It took three years for the left and right wing parties to settle down and proclaim the end of the Spanish Civil War. This disastrous war left behind 500‚000 people dead and a country that had been damaged and internally divided. Francisco Franco‚ a Nationalist general‚ took control of Spain and was named “Caudillo de España”. He then ruled Spain through an authoritarian dictatorship. Franco was a careful and systematic leader‚ and his main goal after the war was to reconstruct Spain and make the

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    The French and Indian War put the British crown in debt. In order to increase revenues for the costs of defending the expanding British Empire‚ Britain taxed the colonies. It imposed the Sugar Act in 1764‚ and‚ one year later‚ it added the Stamp Act. Colonists protested the added taxes. The Stamp Act was repealed. Britain and France engaged in the French and Indian war. They were batting for land in North America. After British won the war‚ they gain possession of France. In another effort to raise

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    Although Napoleon had basically taken over the farm and the other animals were not standing up for themselves "Red" the rooster was beginning to rally some interest in a new idea he had come up with. When they had decided to oust Mr Jones from his farm the animals were excited about all the changes. However things weren’t working out the way the animals thought they would. It seemed now that things were almost the same as when Mr. Jones was boss. Things really started getting bad when Snowball

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    how far will that push somebody to get what they want? Feeling left out or lonely is one of the worst feelings that a person can experience which is why many people have a fire burning inside of them that makes them crave acceptance. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible one of the key characters suffers from this desire to feel needed. Abigail Williams is a young girl of Salem who desires the attention of a man named John Proctor. In the beginning of Act II the reader finds out that John Proctor has

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