1938 British Empire Games

November 1780 Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton of the British Army hunted a man by the name Francis Marion. Lt. Colonel Tarleton hunted this man for seven hours through the backwoods and swamps of South Caroline, eventually giving up and stated “As for this old, fox the devil himself could not catch him.” Francis Marion would forever be known as the Swamp Fox. Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion was an important figure in history especially military history because; he was the pioneer of guerilla tactics,…

The American Revolution is notoriously known as the birth of our great countries’ independence from England. In this time thirteen colonies rose up to stop the unfair treatment that they had been receiving from British monarchy and aristocracy. The thirteen colonies which were primarily under English control had declared themselves independent and renamed themselves the United States of America. This rebellion is probably the most important thing is U.S. history and yet most people still…

called satarahaya. My political philosophy movement was characterized by the use of peaceful techniques like civil disobedience, non-cooperation, not paying fines, etc. The reason I decided to change form of protest I was using is because the British empire was watching passively what was happening in India with their arms crossed so a new method was needed to take this revolution forward. I lead a lot of important atarahaya movements in South Africa but I knew If I wanted to make a big impact…

Mercantilism was a highly pervasive economic theory, which advocated for governmental regulation of the mother country 's economy for the purpose of augmenting national power, necessitating a great aggregation of colonies so that the nation’s exports may exceed its imports. It was quite clear in the seventeenth century that the colonies of North America would serve as vital providers of wealth, thus England seized control of North Atlantic trade, solidifying its grasp of North America’s Eastern…

conveys its important themes. Consequently, in the aftermath of the Great War, it is clear that this conflict affected British society significantly in several ways, as evidenced in the time period’s poetry and the lives of the poets. In T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, a poem on Europe after the Great War, there are themes present of a general discontentment in and decline of British society due to the events of the…

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the British Parliament passed many acts that prompted a variety of responses from the colonists. Due to the costly Seven Years’ War Britain fought with France, they had debt to pay and naturally looked to their colonies to help relieve the cost burden, especially because the results benefited them. In mild cases, the colonists protested, grumbled, and didn’t do much more. However, as these acts progressively got more invasive and affected the…

aspect was touched by World War I in Europe. After reading some of the book and researching the role of horses in the first world war, I realize how important the smallest things are to large scale wars. How is horse feed one of the biggest things the British Parliament has to worry about in the war? At one point due to the German naval pressure, Britain became worried it horses would be starved. Oats from North America couldn’t make it past Germany’s navy. World War I showed a huge change in…

In 1807, American congressmen ended the Atlantic slave trade, bringing America one step closer to abolishing slavery entirely. However, the Slave Trade Act of 1807 did little to slow slavery’s influence in America. The brand-new cotton gin revived the southern economy during the early 1800’s and intensified the flow of slavery into the west. As a result, slaves were regularly bought, sold, and transported throughout the Cotton Kingdom as desirable commodities, embodying and increasing the…

Sovereignty is defined as supreme and independent power or authority in government as possessed or claimed by a state or community. On July 1st, 1867 Canada became an independent country, but was still a part of the British Common Wealth comparable to New Zealand and Australia. Canada has developed a sovereign identity thru the bravery of millions of soldiers and the brilliant people who created a great country. This was developed during World War one, the Interwar period and World War two.…

In the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass himself, education is a crucial theme. The power of literacy can affect slaves in two different paths: pure torture based on disappointments in truth of slavery, or deemed as a pivotal life tool for self- liberation. Ultimately in the narrative, education is viewed as an important necessity to find true freedom in one’s self by becoming psychologically able to reason, discovering injustice of slavery to its advantage, and…