JOHN ADAMSSecond President of the United States Born in 1735 - Died July 4, 1826 | | * John Adams was the first vice-president and then became the second president of the U.S.A * John Adams was born on October 19 , 1735 in the village of Braintree, Massachusetts. * Adams died on July 4, 1826. * He dedicated more than fifty years of his life to his country. * John Adams helped inspire the fight for freedom against Great Britain and spent almost 10 years in Europe as an American diplomat. * Adams defended the British soldiers during the Boston Massacre trial.
HMS Olympia (1806) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other ships of the same name, see HMS Olympia. Career (United Kingdom) Royal Navy Ensign Name: HMS Olympia Ordered: 2 April 1804 Builder: Bermuda Launched: early 1806 Commissioned: March 1806 Captured: March 1811 Career (France) French Navy Ensign Name: Olympia Acquired: March 1811 by capture Captured: 29 October 1811 Career (United Kingdom) Royal Navy Ensign Name: HMS Olympia Acquired: 29 October 1811, by capture Fate: Sold for breaking up 1815. General characteristics [1] Tons burthen: 110 93⁄94 bm Length: 68 ft 2 in (20.8 m) (gundeck) 50 ft 5 5⁄8 in (15.4 m) (keel) Beam: 20 ft 4 in (6.2 m) Depth of hold: 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) Sail plan: Full-rigged ship Complement: 35 Armament: 8 x 18-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder guns HMS Olympia was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806. In March 1811 the French captured her, but the British recaptured her in October.
Alexandria Yost 10 March 2014 Mr. Bonvillion Geography History on Tokyo On the date July 8, 1853, The United States Commodore Matthew Perry led the Navy’s East India squad into Urada Harbor in Edo, modern-day Tokyo, Japan. That opened the Asian nation to western trade and influenced after more than 250 years of “isolation” under Tokugawa shogunate. With the arrival of Commodore Perry, the “Black Ships” started a chain of economic, political and social crises. After 160 years of the arrival of Perry, these maybe some things you may not know about Tokyo. First, Tokyo began as a village known as Edo.
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.
United States Marine Corps By; Will Doerge April 1, 2009 Period 3+ “Semper Fi” The United States Marine Corp was founded November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War. But after the war the continental Marines were disbanded in April 1783. They were soon brought back in 1793 for the naval battle against France. (Marine Crops History Division) The United States Marine Corp is a branch of the U.S armed forces. They are recruited and trained for duties on sea and on shore.
The best president in U.S history I believe is Abraham Lincoln. Abe Lincoln deserved to be the best president because he led his country through the civil war, abolished slavery by issuing the emancipation proclamation, and by issuing the emancipation proclamation the north gained British support. Abe created an economic development program, which began when the country was bankrupt and made the United States the world’s greatest industrial power. I believe that the 2nd best president is George Washington. Washington led the revolutionary war which began the birth of a new nation which goes under foreign policy, helped with the constitution that had much to do with equal rights, and dealt with the whiskey rebellion.
“Remember the Maine” – Havana Harbor E. Declaration of War (April 1898)- Teller Amendment – Cuba would be free and independent F. Battles- 1. San Juan Hill, Santiago – T.R. and the Rough Riders 2. Manila Bay, Philippines – Admiral Dewey 3. San Juan, Puerto Rico G. Paris Peace Treaty 1898- America gets Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam Imperialism – The Debate A. Pro-Imperialism (Sen. Beveridge, Teddy Roosevelt) 1.
Francisco Solano López Carrillo was the second constitutional president of the Republic of Paraguay between 1862 and 1870 . He served as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, president and chief of the Paraguayan nation during the Paraguayan War . He succeeded his father as president Carlos Antonio López , who had left his son a prosperous nation. According to the Constitution of 1844, Congress elected him president for a period of 10 years. In 1853 Francisco Solano López Carrillo was appointed ambassador of Paraguay and made contacts in European countries UK , France , Prussia , Spain and Piedmont-Sardinia in order to obtain recognition of the independence of Paraguay by those countries plus buy weapons, ships and armor for the military.
Temporarily, he worked as a legal apprentice before deciding to return to Yale University in 1808 as a graduate student where he obtained a Masters of Arts degree. Feeling like he’s calling was to the ministry and after some hesitation he decided to enter the Theological Seminary at Andover in 1811. He became an ordained minister at the age of twenty-seven years old. Gallaudet, working as a traveling salesman, returned to Hartford, Connecticut where he met a prominent physician, Dr. Mason Cogswell and his daughter, Alice Cogswell. Alice Cogswell was believed to be 4 years old at the time (some say she was 9).
This essay will give a critical account of British imperialism underlying Lord Normanby’s instructions to Hobson in August of 1839. This letter gives an articulate account of British imperialist ideology applied one of Britain’s latter colonies, New Zealand. Historical Background The first Europeans to reach New Zealand was in 1642 by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. However, Europeans did not return until James Cook’s voyage during 1768-71. From then on New Zealand was seen as a trading post for French, British, and American sealers and whalers.