The British could never have won the war for American Independence. The rebellion could probably have been crushed initially by firm action under a commander-in-chief who was not governed by a policy that varied from year to year based on conciliation and suppression and which imposed upon him the dual role of commanding general and peace commissioner. With the rebellion crushed it might have been possible to make a political settlement short of independence where the colonies could have remained
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Was the Schlieffen Plan Foredoomed to Failure? To avoid the French fortress system‚ the Germans had developed a plan to surround Paris in a flanking maneuver to quickly conquer France. The plan was expected to be carried out in only 40 days‚ however‚ many important steps were not taken which cost the Germans the vital element of haste. The Schlieffen plan was not foredoomed to failure‚ yet it it did fail due to three factors: the reduction to the right wing on the Western Front‚ the choice to avoid
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The Failure of Prohibition What made America repeal Prohibition? Prohibition went into effect early 1920 after approval of the Eighteenth Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment banned the transportation‚ manufacturing‚ and sale of alcohol in the United States. Americans believed that the consumption of alcohol was behind a few of America’s issues and some saw it as a drag on the economy. World War I also influenced the support of prohibition. Many Americans believed it was not American-like to spend
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Woodrow Wilson’s failures of commission probably had the most dire consequences of any U.S. president. His great flaw was his sanctimonious nature‚ more stark and distilled than that of any other president‚ even John Quincy Adams (who was no piker in the sanctimony department). He thought he always knew best‚ because he thought he knew more than anybody else. Combine that with a powerful humanitarian sensibility‚ and you get a president who wants to change the world for the betterment of mankind
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Background: Harold Holt was born in Stanmore‚ New South Wales on 5 August 1908. He was the elder of two children. Holt was enrolled at Wesley College in Melbourne‚ which happens to be where the future Prime Minister Robert Menzies had been a star pupil as well. It is argued that due to a lack of parental love‚ is mothers early death and his parents’ divorce caused many feelings of loneliness and insecurity in Holt. Holt did very well in school‚ winning a scholarship to the University of Melbourne
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Turkey was on the same side as Germany in the First World War‚ that made them the Anzac’s enemy. It was decided that soldiers needed to land and fight in turkey. This is where the famous battle of Gallipoli happened now known as ANZAC cove because of the horrific losses of the Australian forces in a so seemed futile and pointless battle. This essay highlights why the Gallipoli campaign was a failure. On April 25th 1915 the Anzac’s arrived at the Anzac cove‚ after an element of confusion which cause
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Milton Hershey Milton Hershey was born September 13‚ 1857 to Fannie Snavely and Henry Hershey in the city of Derry Township‚ Pennsylvania. He had one sibling name Serina who was born in 1862. Fannie was the daughter of Bishop Abraham Snavely‚ who was of the Mennonite Church. His father too was a member of the Mennonite Church‚ but unfortunately‚ he always schemed “get rich schemes” that always seemed to fail. This would adversely affect the family‚ as there was not a stable environment for Milton
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Reconstruction was not a complete failure but a "radical & noble attempt" to bring equality to the black man. It took three options to bring about a decent change for the former slaves .To help fix the problem in 1865 congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau the first federal welfare system to provide food‚ clothing‚ confiscated land‚ and education. This idea was able to succeed in education; unfortunately it was ended in 1872. Soon after Lincoln’s assassination President Johnson was sworn into
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the Watergate scandal. Thus‚ his presidency was similar to the Nixon Administration. Like the presidencies before and after Ford‚ his administration’s approach to foreign affairs was entirely based on the Cold War. During his shorter-than-average term‚ the Ford Administration’s foreign policy included policies such as detente‚ shuttle diplomacy‚ and ending conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Vietnam War. Gerald Ford’s foreign policy was characterized by global treaties‚ ineffective
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Timur‚ or Tamerlane‚ was the last great nomadic nomadic conqueror of Asia‚ and founder of the Timurid Empire and Dynasty. During his zenith‚ he commanded an empire which stretched from modern-day Turkey to Nepal. Most of Timur’s life was spent in military conquest. His military expansions often involved the wholsale slaughter and genocide of the conquered peoples‚ leaving dead hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and civilians. The life and analysis of Timur’s reign can be divided into three
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