Artillery battery

The land was heavily wooded so the Army of Cumberland was going to make an assault on an area they knew very little about. The 125th Ohio would serve as skirmishers and Newton’s division was going to make the advance. Seven batteries from the 4th corps began shelling the Confederate lines at 8:00 a.m.Cleburne’s confederates prepared for battle, their line stretched to the south of Dallas Road. Confederates amassed an imposing array of earthworks in front of Cleburne’s line. According…

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature…

Descriptive One of the most amazing pieces of artwork located at the New Orleans Museum of Art is the sketch for “The Pest House of Jaffa”. This piece of art work was done by the French history and neoclassical painter Antoine-Jean Gros in 1804. This painting is an oil painting on canvas and has the approximate dimensions of 12 x 24 inches. The painting was commissioned by Vivant Denon for Napoleon. The painting is a sketch that is depicting Napoleon Bonaparte in the city of Jaffa visiting…

The bombs explode overhead, whistling and howling until they meet their final destination either on unsuspecting soldiers or the already-disturbed ground. Bloodcurling cries of men and animals alike echo from every corner of the battlefield, turning even the toughest of men green with anguish. Moreover, the men one cares about the most are being picked off one by one, delivering them from the monotonous horror that is war. It is for these reasons that Robert E. Lee said, “It is well that war is…

hours. The battle is marked as the first major engagement between Mexico and America during the Mexican-American war even though the battle took place days before America declared war on Mexico. The battle was short lived, proving the American artillery tactics and armament far superior to that of Mexico. The number of casualties Mexico took during this short battle was more than double that of America. Zachary Taylor, an American General from Virginia, was born in 1784. He was born into a…

Imagine this, your 25-year-old son is in war, fighting for the sake of your country and your people. You are finally about to reunite with him after a long wait for his return. Imagine this, you receive a knock at your door 1 week before you were promised that your son, who is fighting for war, will be returning back home safely. Someone you’ve never met before tells you the most devastating news and before you know it, your son will not be returning home ever again. Imagine how this would feel,…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…

World War 1 was time in our history that changed our lives forever with all the things happen at this time. In the war there were many military tactics to try to beat the other country, they used guns, machines, and even bombs. A military tactics are the science and art of organizing a military force, and the techniques for combining and using weapons and military units to engage and defeat an enemy in battle. The guns used in the war were very different in what the military uses today. Some of…

War was a very essential role to science in the 19th century, the industrial revolution had a great impact on war as well. The American civil war is often called the first true modernized war because of all the technologically advanced weapons used in this war. Weapons were now able to be mass produced and were much more accurate than previously used weapons. These weapons were also much more powerful and could shoot much farther. With the advances in weaponry happening so rapidly, many of the…

gathered for this weapon is also on “HistoryNet Weapons of World War 1” which states, “The 20th century’s most significant leap in traditional weapons technology was the increased lethality of artillery due to improvements in gun design, range and ammunition‚—a fact that was all too clear in the Great War, when artillery killed more people than any other weapon did. Some giant guns could hurl projectiles so far that crews had to take into account the rotation of the earth when plotting their…