Essays 2791 - 2820
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
condemned The New York Times and The Guardian for liberal content and left-wing sympathies, and their war coverage has come under ...
despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
search for peace was going on, North Vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the...
is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...
fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....
This paper consists of five pages and considers the U.S. treatment of adversaries Japan and Germany during the Second World War an...
archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
This mutual alliance against terrorism intensified when maritime protection became necessary during 1987, an augmentation that ser...
The Soviets wanted the other powers to abandon their jurisdictions within the city. The other powers instead unified their jurisd...
In ten pages this paper examines how during the Second World War the Germans employed blitzkrieg tactical campaigns. Nine sources...
the specifics of the military strategic process. By evaluating these processes, it is possible to gain insight into the history, ...
The writer describes the Guy Chapman book A Passionate Prodigality, which is an extremely emotional autobiographical account of th...
perform their work in France. The onset of war in Europe caused many American women to willingly spend their holidays abroad. ...
make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...
military, pursuing a permanent war economy, and mentioned the possibility of retaliation at every opportunity (Coy, 2003). In his...
a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...
government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...
truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...