The Soldier on the Front Lines Chris Marshall-MW 9:30-10:50 Submitted to Professor Melinda L. Barr in Partial fulfillment of the requirements of History 1483, Oklahoma City Community College, Spring, 2014 The American Civil War has just started. I was stationed at Fort Sumter just four months ago. On April 11, 1861 at 4:30 the confederate brigade general P.G.T Beauregard told his men to open fire on our fort. We fought back for about 34 hours cannons and gun fires going back and forth at one another. The firing just continued all day there was no holding back on either side.
After being installed in the palace, the Spaniards demanded the gold from the natives, which brought it for them. By using their advanced weapons like swords and metal shields, they would kill the natives by stabbing and cutting off their heads. Soon after a war with the Spaniards began in which
Conferring too many interpretations of the battle, about ten Texans surrendered during the battle, probably to General Castrillon. Infuriated that his commands to take no detainees had been overlooked, Santa Anna commanded the immediate finishing of the survivors. Though Castrillon and some other officers declined to do so, staff colonels who had not contributed in the fighting drew their swords and murdered the unarmed Texans. Crockett was still at the Alamo that morning of March 6, 1836, when Mexican Leader and General Santa Anna commanded the Mexican militia to attack. The Mexicans had devastating numbers and in around 90 minutes they had packed the Alamo, murdering all inside.
So one has to ask was it worth it? Almost near years since we entered Iraq we are leaving with little results and a bill that doubles our debt and could continue to hold down our economy. There were over 4,400 lives lost, and that is just on the Americans side. We have not even began to scratch the surface of the effects on the native Iraqis and how many thousands of civilians have been killed and the millions that have been displaced by our war efforts. To go along with the 4,400 Americans that wont be coming home to their families, there were over 32,000 Americans wounded in this war.
Over time, the Mexican government became more centralized, less federalist, and eventually steered the Texans to call for independence. Early in March 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico; and for the next two months, bloody battles ensued. Mexico, under supreme dictator and President Santa Anna, vowed to remove the Anglo-American brigands from Mexico. Sam Houston’s small, undertrained and underequipped army of ragtag volunteers conducted a tactical retreat to gain time, manpower, and material as well as spread the Mexican army’s supply lines over one thousand miles. Houston’s goal was to conduct a campaign of his choosing and not that of the Mexican army.
Lessons from the Battle of Chancellorsville By David Tyler Journal Article | May 8 2013 - 2:30am “Hold the attention of your enemy with a minimum force, then quickly strike him suddenly and hard on his flank or rear with every weapon you have.”[1] -- Gen. A.A. Vandegrift Introduction May 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville. It is one of the premiere battles that military professionals around the world study to understand the art of warfare. The chaos, courage, and suffering that took place at the Battle of Chancellorsville was so expansive and extreme that it is difficult for twenty-first century minds to grasp. Numbers vaguely tell the story of the savagery: total Confederate casualties 13,156, of whom 1683 were killed, 9277 were wounded, and
What would turn into a four-year conflagration and take more American lives than two subsequent world wars together was expected by many at first to be no more than a "show of power" exhibited by both factions that would end in quick compromise. But, it soon became apparent that the South would not bargain. It didn’t matter that the industrial North was considered unbeatable with its larger population and its iron factories able to churn out artillery by the carloads. The pride of the South was wounded, and the scars were enough to inspire its men to victory in the first several engagements, including the First Battle of Manassas, 30 miles from Washington
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A Day at the Cemetery 15 August 1862 Union troops led by Major Emory S. Foster, attacked the Confederate troops led by Colonel Vard Cockrell near Lone Jack, Missouri. The battle was fought on the eve of that night till late the next day. The battle raged through the town virtually destroying it. The Union soldiers fought with all their might believing that the undisciplined Confederates would not hold them prisoners if they were captured. The battle concluded with the Confederates winning while the Union soldiers retreated to Lexington, Missouri.
", Frank Zimring, Summer 1968 4. ” Expanded Homicide Table 8”, Federal Bureau of Inverstigation, Spring 2012 Thesis Paragraph: Gun control has been a hot topic in the United States for over a decade now, and it isn’t about to go away. 116,975,100 citizens of all walks of life who take part in exercising their second amendment right are falling victim to the negligence of .00002% of the population, leaving their right to bear arms to be questioned by the very government that granted its citizens this right centuries ago. Reasons that many pro-gun control activists vary, however, upon further examination of exactly who these people are and what kind of experience they have had with firearms, it becomes clear that a frightening portion of these people grew up without seeing any benefit whatsoever in their second amendment right. Instead, just like every other