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The Crimean War has been considered by many to be a war of blunders and mistakes, even though many of them were preventable. Poor planning, communication, and insight led the Crimean War to go into the history books as an incompetent and unnecessary operation on both sides. ------------> The main cause of the war was because of Russia’s desire to extend their influence, specifically over the Ottoman Empire. From this stemmed two main disputes: first of all, Russia was granted protective…

The Royal Navy is the United Kingdom's principal naval warfare force. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century, it is the oldest of the armed services and is known as the Senior Service. During the 17th century the Royal Navy competed mostly with the Dutch Navy and in the 18th century with the French Navy for world supremacy. From the late 18th century until the mid-1940s it was the most powerful navy in the world, being surpassed by the US Navy after World War II. The…

The planters in the colonies were in many ways a direct contrast to the unique economic and political position of the absentee planters. The Caribbean was still populated by a class of British citizens who managed, operated, and owned slave plantations. Many of these people had resided within the West Indies for generations therefore were deeply entrenched in the local management and politics of the region. Green in his work on the subject describes how these were not colonies that had just…

Joseph Stalin, to put it simply, is the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world. He is plain evil, and that is what makes him so intriguing. From Stalin’s harsh adolescent years, to his crime ridden young adult years, and finally the years of his dictatorship, the life of Joseph Stalin is one for the books. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1879 in the Russian occupied country of Georgia. The Djugashvili family was desperately poor. Josef’s father was a…

engaged forces overseas and military cutbacks in spending, service academies have come under fire. In this paper, it is my intention to display how United States service academies still serve a great purpose to our nation. Unlike ROTC, Seamen to Admiral, OCS and other commissioning sources, military academies take a holistic approach in preparing students to lead during armed conflict. James Forest (2003) expanded on this and made the argument that “Although the admirable…

Winston Churchill was very popular and highly admired in England for what he did in World War 2 that the British gave him the Nickname “The British Bulldog”. Winston Churchill was born on November 30th, 1874 in Blenheim Palace, United Kingdom and grew up in Woodstock, England. Growing up Churchill was rather lonely and unhappy and struggled academically throughout his years at school. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill was a Politician and his mother, Jennie Jerome was the daughter of a rich…

Henry Fitzroy: The Lucky Bastard Henry Fitzroy was the product of King Henry and King Henry’s mistress, Elizabeth Blount. This parentage, although involving King Henry, means he was an illegitimate heir to the throne of England. But power was slipping from their hands, and Henry became their last resort (Loades 146). Although the life of Henry Fitzroy ended early, he was a key character whose existence gave fleeting hope to not only his father Henry VIII and his half-sister Mary, but the fate…

The Day That Flashed By, And Then Again During the second World War many inhumane things were done, which made this war one of the worst in history. On August 6th, 1945, Hiroshima became victim to the first atomic bomb deployed by The United States. The bomb immediately killed tens of thousands of people; many more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later a second deployed bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated, forty thousand people. With these bombings, thousands…

The main ideas presented in Major Problems in the History of World War II: Chapter 4 revolve around the analysis of the use of strategic bombing and its effects on the war. Documents presented in this chapter focus on the importance of naval and air warfare as well as the most effective way to defeat Germany as presented by allied leaders. Historians Richard Overy and Michael S. Sherry provide their analyses of the importance of airpower in the war and how it affected all parties involved in the…

The Pessimistic Historian The historian is not fully prepared through the bland reading of textbooks written by others. Rather, it takes careful analysis of factual information gathered through the sifting of history itself. Although the myths and legends may speak of a great men and great cities, it can be found that those men were tyrants and the cities corrupt. Throughout history this has occurred: Caesar was said to be a great man, while Brutus, evil. Another example is of the city Rio, it…