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United States Army History Essays and Term Papers
Abraham Lincoln During The Civil WarAbraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky (“American President an Online Reference”). Growing up he acquired the nicknames Honest Abe, and Illinois rail-splitter. He was married to Mary Todd (“American President an Online Reference”). Together they had ...
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Switzerland's Politics and EconomyExecutive Summary
With its high per capita income and its prosperous and liberal trade-based economy, Switzerland presents much opportunity for foreign import and export businesses. The country's close links to the economies of Western Europe and the United States provides private business ...
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Shermans MarchE-mail: klotzsta@pilot.msu.edu
Sherman’s March In November of 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman cut a 300-mile long, 60-mile wide corridor of destruction across the Confederate State of Georgia. He burned every thing in his path. He torched plantations, bridges, crops, factories, and ...
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Napoleon BonaparteCorsica is a rugged island in the Mediterranean, which lies sixty miles off the coast of Italy. The Corsicans are proud and independent people. In 1768, when the French took over the island from Genoa, an Italian state, the Corsicans rebelled and fought for their freedom. But they were ...
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Abraham Lincoln 3Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Lincoln entered office at a critical period in U. S. history, just before the Civil War, and died from an assassin's bullet at the war's end, but before the greater implications of the conflict could be resolved. He brought to the ...
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Biography: Jefferson, Thomas1743-1826, intellectual, statesman, and third president of the United
States. Although Jefferson served as governor of Virginia, minister to
France, secretary of state, vice president, and president, he is remembered
in history less for the offices he held than for what he stood for: his
belief in ...
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Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio“On March 1, 1950, The New York Times reports that…John E. Peurifoy, in charge of the State Department security program, was asked by a Senate Committee how many department employees had resigned while under investigation as security risks since the beginning of 1947. ...
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Roswell IncidentAlmost fifty years ago, an incident occurred in the southwestern desert of
the United States that could have significant implications for all mankind. The
incident was announced by the U.S. military, and denied by the U.S. military,
and has remained covered-up in the government for the past fifty ...
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Dred ScottThere have been several cases in the history of the Supreme Court that have had a powerful impact on both the highest court of the land and the history of the United States. The decision can definitely be included in this category of monumental cases that changed the course of American history. ...
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The Beginning Of A JourneyPerhaps no American felt a yearning to tame the West more powerfully than Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had grown up in a social circle where the men had planned an expedition to the Pacific. Since he shared his father’s avid interest in cartography, it is not surprising that he followed the ...
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The Suez Crisis Of 1956: The War From Differing ViewpointsCarleton University
Research Paper #1:
Submitted to Prof. J. Sigler
In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for 47.323
Introduction
Among the most important foundations in the continuing Arab-Israeli
conflict was the seeds that were sown in the aftermath of the 1956 Sinai
Campaign, or the ...
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The Korean War And The DamageKorean War was one of the by-products of Cold War, the global political
and diplomatic struggle between the Communist and non-Communist systems
following World War II. Korean War, military struggle fought on t June
1950 to July 1953. Begun as a war between South Korea (Republic of Korea)
and North ...
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The Economics Of Federal Defense PolicyThree out of four Americans polled in the 1992 election year believed that the
United States was heading in the wrong direction. With such an overwhelming
consensus, the country hired a new president to attempt to fix the vital issues
at hand. Although both Republicans and Democrats believed that ...
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To The People Of Texas And All Americans In The World: The Alamo"To the people of Texas and all Americans in the World: I shall never surrender or retreat ... I Am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what it is due to his honor and that of his country-VICTORY OR DEATH." This was a letter sent by William ...
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Kurds - A People Without A State
Of all the ethnic groups in the world, the Kurds are one of the
largest that has no state to call their own. According to historian
William Westermann, "The Kurds can present a better claim to race
purity...than any people which now inhabits Europe." (Bonner, p. 63,
1992) Over the past ...
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Why The North Won The Civil War"In all history, no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail" -Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman to a Southern friend.
The American antebellum South, though steeped in pride and raised in military tradition, was to be ...
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The Man Who Made IrelandThe notion of violence as a commonplace aspect of both Irish political and social life in the 20th century. From the Easter Rebellion in 1916, to the IRA and their paramilitary efforts; violence, on a state sponsored as well as in extra-military affairs, has persistently served to shape life in ...
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Ulysses S. Grantwas born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, a town on the Ohio River near Cincinatti. In 1823, the Grant family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses attended school until he was 14. He then spent one year at an acadamy in Maysville, Kentucky and in 1838 he entered an academy in ...
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World War II In EuropeBefore dawn on September 1, 1939, German forces crossed into Poland in an attack so fast and brutal, they called it blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war. This time Britain and France decided to fight, and on September 3 they declared war on Germany.
Roosevelt declared the United States' neutrality, ...
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EisenhowerWhat do you think of when you hear the name, Dwight D. ? For most they think of him as just a president and nothing else, but he was also one of or maybe the greatest general of all time.
In 1909, Dwight D. graduated from Abilene High School, Abilene, Kansas. After he got out of high school, he ...
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