 | | George Washington: His Legacy | | by larcha, Aug 31, 2008 | | This passage describes Washington's lasting legacy on American history, discussing his involvement in the French and Indian War, his leading position as leading commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and his reputation as being a noble person. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 4 |
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 | | Battles Before the 17th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 31, 2008 | | Combat at sea was for centuries mostly an affair of piracy and privateering, or amphibious actions intended to capture or relieve important coastal bases. Only occasionally did opposing fleets meet in open battle. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Peace of Augsburg (September 25, 1555) | | by balisunset, Aug 31, 2008 | | Following the Convention of Passau (1552), Ferdinand I and Charles V agreed to a general settlement of the confessional and princely wars in Germany. What occasioned concession for Ferdinand was pragmatism; for Charles it was military defeat and personal melancholia, which also moved him to abdicate. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | A Short History on the Boer War | | by balisunset, Aug 30, 2008 | | Two conflicts waged by Dutch settlers in resistance to the expansion of the British Empire in South Africa. Dutch settlers, later known as “Boers,” established farms in southern Africa beginning in the seventeenth century, gradually expanding north into the hinterland, pressing against lands held by indigenous African tribes. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Conventions of Beijing (1860) | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | The capstone of the “treaty system“ imposed on China by the British Empire. After the dreadful defeat of the Arrow War, the Chinese government was forced to enter the Conventions of Beijing with Britain and France. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The Balkan Wars | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | Two wars fought principally over control of the Ottoman provinces in Macedonia and Thrace. The first, from October 1912 to May 1913, brought the states of the Balkan League, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro, together into a military alliance against the Ottoman Empire with the goal of driving the Turks from Europe. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | World War I | | by larcha, Aug 27, 2008 | | World War I was devastating, even for those who lived. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 5 |
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 | | Art of War in Middle-Ages Europe | | by balisunset, Aug 26, 2008 | | At its narrowest definition, the "art of war" is the study of tactics and strategy. More broadly, it is all literary studies, military manuals, and guides to weapons, tactics, and strategy peculiar to a historical time and place. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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