Civil War Biography Essay: George E. Pickett “Up men! And to your posts! And let no man forget today, that you are from Old Virginia!” said Major General George E. Pickett before fighting the attack called Pickett’s Charge. George E. Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia, on January 16, 1825. He was raised in an enthusiastic war family and graduated from West Point at the bottom of his class.
US History 1 William Whipple Jr. born on January 14, 1730. He was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire. Whipple was born at Kittery, Maine, and educated at a common school studying how to be a merchant, judge, and a soldier until he went off to sea. He became a Ship's Master by the age of twenty-three. In 1759 he landed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and in partnership with his brother established himself as a merchant.
Why did so many colonist die in Jamestown? Three ships sail to a brand new land with about 100 British colonist, but little did they know what they had coming for them. Within a year already half of the men pass away, but why? It was spring of 1806 king James had sent gentlemen to Virginia to sought the riches that could lay ahead, or any natives to convert Christian, and to create the first new colony. They settle by a river that they call James river.
James K. Polk & Theodore Roosevelt James K. Polk: Biography James K. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on November 2 , in 1795. He was the oldest one of ten 5 brothers and 4 sisters. Once that James had turned ten years old,, his father had took his big family and moved towards the west, some two hundred miles, to the frontier of Tennessee, where, in a rich valley on Duck River, Samuel Polk, James’s father and his neighbors built their log huts and started their homes. He lived in good and structured farmhouse and was raised by his mother, Jane Knox Polk, and she believed in raising her children according to the strict Presbyterian "gospel of duty." But unfortunely he was not a healthy kid during his childhood.
He commissioned his first vessel, a tiny schooner, “Hannah” on September 5, 1775. Captain Nicholas Broughton and his crew of fisherman and novice sailors were the first crew of George Washington's Navy. Much to the demise of Washington, the Hannah and her crew failed to capture any royal navy ships. Not wanting to rely on ground troops alone Washington commissioned over a two year time span seven lightly armed vessels, that captured 55 ships from the royal navy. John Manly, a rough Boston ship master who had served in the Royal Navy was Washington's most successful captain.
Stephen King In 1947 on the Twenty First of September, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King gave birth to one of the greatest mystery fiction writers in our time. Stephen King was born in Maine General Hospital in Portland Maine(Wukovits 11). King had a normal upbringing despite the absents of a father. At the age of two King’s father, Donald Edward King, had disappeared while serving as a merchant marine in World War II (11). King started his education in a small school where he quickly took an interest in reading and writing.
| Julius Caesar: Hero or Villian? | World History Roman Essay | | His goal was to rule Rome for a long period of time, Discuss his involvement in the First Triumvirate, his choice of a province close to Rome, his five-year proconsul ship, and his military accomplishments. | | | Julius Caesar’s history begins on 12.07.102 or 100 BC, when he was born in a family which was a part of the Julius dynasty, which is said to be found by Aeneas. Caesar’s father was working as a praetor and died when Caesar was at the age of 16 orphaning him and his two sisters. So the future conqueror was raised by his mother - Aurelia.
In 1732, when Ben Franklin was at work on his newspaper, a boy was born on a plantation in Virginia who was one day to stand higher than even the Philadelphia printer. That boy when he grew up was to be chosen leader of the armies of the Revolution; he was to be elected the first president of the United States; and before he died he was to be known and honored all over the world. The name of that boy was George Washington. Washington's father died when George was only eleven years old, leaving him, with his brothers and sisters, to the care of a most excellent and sensible mother. It was that mother's influence more than anything else which made George the man he became.
His mother, Margaret Rees, was the first woman baptized into the Church in Merthyr Tidvil, Wales. My father, his parents, brothers and sisters, numbering ten in the family left Liverpool, England in April 1856 on the ship Carlin with Dan McArthur Captain. The voyage on the ocean was somewhat long and rough and very tedious. They landed in Boston the latter part of May 1856. While on the ship, my father met with an accident that left a scar through
Born on January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents, Elizabeth Arnold and David Poe, were killed in a theatre accident soon after his birth and the child was taken in by John Allan, a "wealthy Scottish tobacco exporter" (Kellman 2079). He lived in Virginia for most of the time in Richmond, and around 1826, went to University of Virginia. However, Poe was kicked out but a few months later on debts that came from gambling and drinking. In 1827, traveling to Boston, he enlisted into the army under the name Edgar Allan Perry and under the heat of the sun in summer of 1827, he published Tamerlane and Other Poems with a pseudonym of A Bostonian.