One of the bloodiest battles ever to happen on American soil is known as picket’s charge. There is a lot of controversy on why general lee ordered 13,000 American soldiers take a suicide mission. General lee was the unions strongest general and maybe the best general in the entire civil war. The debated topic is why would general lee make such an unorthodox decision because the results were the slaughtering of his army. General lee commanded that the 5,000 men that Pickett’s men were to line up in the woods and get ready to charge up cemetery hill.
Many countries and people probably did as well. On paper it appears that England would win without a doubt; they had all the means necessary for a victorious win over the colonists. When people come together to fight over a common cause, it is amazing what can happen. This is proven true by the outcome of the War for Independence. America won not because they had better soldiers, more supplies and weapons, or better fighting styles.
Ancient Chinese and Roman warfare were similar but also differed in the ways they were implemented, employed and strategized. Both the Chinese and Roman militaries proved themselves worthy of being the absolute best militaries of their time. They were capable of taking on any battle in any given situation and were repeatedly victorious. Their methods of war included the use of clever strategies, powerful tactics and organized formations to overcome and defeat their opponents. The book, Art of War, reveals several aspects of Chinese military warfare that differs from the Romans.
“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history… and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination – by starvation and uneven combat – of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”[12] The term “Final solution” was not coined by the Nazis. It was General of the US Army William Tecumseh Sherman, who plotted out the panned murder to take care of the “Indian problem.” Over 100
After that, future President Andrew Jackson promoted the wholesale slaughter and mutilation of natives in the 1830s, ordering his men to cut the noses off hundreds of slain natives to provide accurate body counts. This mentality of brutality isn’t limited to early American History. As late as the 1890, future President Theodore Roosevelt was declaring that in nine out of ten cases, the “only good Indian was a dead Indian.” All four of the individuals mentioned not only served as President of the United States, but three of them are celebrated with their likenesses carved into the Mt. Rushmore National Monument. That we describe the practitioners of such brutality as ‘heroes’ can only be described as shameful.
Atahualpa had 80,000 soldiers while Pizzaro only had 106 foot soldiers and 62 horse men. But like I said Pizzaro had many advantages on his side and one of those was technology. Pizzaro’s technology was far more advanced than Atahualpa. For example, a huge advantage in technology Pizzaro had, were: steel weapons, steel armor, and the use of horses in battle. The fact that Native Americans had never seen such things made them even more vulnerable to victory.
To get there they had to think of ways to help them in their conquest of lands whether it is swords or other technologies. There political and environmental characteristics were pretty impressive, but who know which one was better. Rome was an empire known for its tough army and its vast line of rulers who conquered and crushed anyone who got in there way. The Maurya too was powerful with its rulers,
A standard way that the Emperors used their power was for military purposes. Because Rome was a large and thriving empire; a strong army was needed for equally attacking and defending against opposition. Emperors could effortlessly find new recruits for enlistment to the Roman legions. This would provide the advantage of larger numbers of soldiers in a battle. This benefit allowed tactics such as the ‘wedge’ to be executed as more soldiers could reinforce the wedge from behind, which would consequently break the enemies’ formation (Roman Empire.net 2012).
It was January 23, 1870 and 200 U.S. cavalrymen lay spread around the Marias River in Montana near by the large campsite of the Piegan leader Heavy Runner. The camp was surrounded by the cavalries and the Indians were defenseless since their warriors and strong man were away hunting. A scout, Joe Cobell, fired the first shot, dropping Heavy Runner. “This was the beginning of the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops” (Weiser NP). About 200 Piegans, most of them either elderly or women and children, were killed by the harsh Army's Springfield rifles.
ANTIQUITY TO MODERN DAYS WARFARE Warfare cannot be separated from other activities in human history. Virtually all human societies have engaged in warfare in one form or another. One common explanation is to look at warfare exclusively from the perspective of technology and resources. At their most simple, these explanations argue that societies with access to the “best” weapons, or larger quantities of weapons, win wars. Beside that we can include how the technologies and other resources cannot stand alone without supreme leaderships through every phase of warfare itself.