Ammunition

colonist was waiting for them and the order was given out “Don’t fire until you can see the whites of their eyes.” It is not certain who said it but it is a famous quote from the battle. They did this because it would cause the most effect and their ammunition was limited because the colonist did not have any more reinforcements (“Battle of Bunker Hill”). As soon as the British soldiers came into range the colonist unleashed a wall of lead on them. A lot of British soldiers died or were wounded…

Lee was able to trick the emigrants by approaching them under a white flag. The emigrants had barely enough ammunition left, little water, and their wounded dying. They gave up all their weapons and belongings. Lee had the wounded and youngest emigrants out first, then followed by the older children and mothers, then the boys and men. In Mountain Meadows, the militiamen…

GEN Van Fleet felt that the NKPA was currently off balance from their earlier loss on Bloody Ridge and therefore wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to seize additional key terrain located on Heartbreak Ridge. As Gen. de Shazo agreed with GEN Van Fleet, he assigned the 23rd IN Reg as the main effort for this hasty attack. However, this attack was not backed by any intelligence but rather an assumption from the commanding General. Furthermore there was not effort to gain further or…

month however that number is before money is taken for dependents and accident insurance. That would leave the men with nine dollars a month but then you take into account that each man was blindsided into paying for his own clothing, food, and ammunition by buying Liberty Bonds. So sadly most men received no money at all on pay days. Butler mentioned the math on how many bonds soldiers were forced to buy and it came out to two billion dollars. All in All, even though soldiers paid the greater…

When you get ammunition, you may not think much about your bullets or shells when you buy them in the store. You assume they are safe and use them most times when you go hunting. However, some people choose to make their own. This is something that should never be taken…

In mid-November, 1943 after conducting anti-submarine warfare exercises in Casco Bay, the destroyer U.S.S. Turner left the waters of Maine and steamed south to Norfolk, Va. It would be the last time the ship would ever sail into Casco Bay. Upon arriving at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, TURNER was ordered to escort duty for its third trans-Atlantic convoy of the war. Although it was TURNER’s third trip across the Atlantic, for some of the crew it was their first. Among those of the ship’s…

create water bottles for the United States. It contains chemicals that can be deadly in high doses. In fact, there are several contaminants in bottled water such as arsenic. Arsenic is a poisonous chemical element normally known for car batteries and ammunition. (CWRU) Coca-Cola and PepsiCo companies advertising how cool bottled waters are eventually became a norm for the future that bottled water is better than tap water. Bottled water does not mean purity so why drink out of something that can…

One of the most influential fashion designers of all time Coco Chanel once said, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening”(Kass;Coco Chanel, A Legend on and off the Streets). This quote captures how fashion is influenced by cultural concepts and aspects from everyday life. Fashion is a means of expression and it has changed significantly throughout the decades, but the 1920’s was…

like wildfire. The spread of fear caused the lives of the innocent to be robbed of their right to freedom, to be wrongfully put to their death. In these cases fear than more than fear its is used as a strategic ploy for one’s self-enrichment, as ammunition for political gain, and as a revenge scheme. Thomas Putnam is an ideal candidate of…

Even though women were viewed as the weaker of the two genders in Canadian Society during the 1940s, the variety of roles that they performed during World War II undeniably played an essential part in Canada’s victory. First of all, due to a large amount of men enlisting into the army during WW2, a massive number of women became responsible for helping to sustain the Canadian economy by working for various industries. Second of all, they were involved in the home front by contributing to the…