Battle of Antietam

of 2,400, recently hosted the latest battle of the Civil War. This battle was fought July 1-3, 1863. The Battle of Gettysburg is thought of as the most important clash of the Civil War. The Confederate’s casualties totalled to 28,000 out of 75,000 and the Union’s casualties totalled to 23,000/88,000. 160,000 people were involved. In Rappahannock, 866 Federals were killed and 523 Confederates killed with thousands of rebel casualties. The first day of the battle was July 1. General Robert E. Lee…

In tandem with the Sleuthing the Alamo analysis, the causes, consequences, and events of the Texas Revolution have changed over time. These changes have brought new explanations and interpretations about the process of writing history. There are a dozen of materials that have been written using different perspectives over the last century. According to generations of Americans and immigrants, the genesis of Texas revolution is recounted as the simple tale of outnumbered defendants that were…

Sleuthing the Alamo draws a rich indictment of knowledge through the great historic battle of the Alamo which took place during 1835-1836. Many great artifacts have been discovered through the years of the Alamo, but one in fact, the De La Pena diary is a historical importance of information of a Mexican soldier discontent with the Leadership of Santa Anna along with brutality killings at the Alamo along with Davy Crockett’s surrender. The Diary of De La Pena has been argued of its originality,…

Good Afternoon.Fallen Angels is a book that takes place in 1968, twoards the end of the Vietnam War. The book follows the journey of a 17 year old boy named Richie Perry. Who was a african american from New York City. He just graduated from high school, and Perry doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life. He knows that his single mom cannot afford college,he choosees that he wants to join the army so he can go to college. On the plane to Vietnam he thinks about how he is going into combat…

Revolution were all around me, in the names of our streets schools, our cuties and Counties Houston, Austin, Fannin, Travis, Bowie, Crockett”. This influence was even carried to his back yard during the “Davy Crockett craze” when he would reenact the battle and pretend to kill Mexicans as David Crockett. The author grew up being exposed to the Texas revolution but not all the exposure was true to what happen. Davy Crockett didn't really go guns blazing taking out many Mexicans and still live to…

joined a group of other Texans and marched into Nacogdoches to "present their demands" to Piedras. Before the group reached the building housing the town officials, they were attacked by a force of 100 Mexican cavalry. The Texans returned fire and the Battle of Nacogdoches began. After the cavalry retreated, they initiated a siege of the garrison. After a…

Around the time of the conference, a Persian spy lurked in the distance. Watching the Greeks, the spy looked with astonishment at what lay before him. The first thing he noted was the Greek where Spartans who trained as if they were fighting their last battle. The spy returned to his camp describing in detail to his superior, Xerxes, about what he saw. Troubled by the news of the Spartans’ military prowess, Xerxes sent for…

Black Hearts is a narrative written by Jim Fredrick that covers the happenings of, Bravo Company 1-502nd Infantry 101st Airborne Division who were deployed to Iraq in 2005. The failure of their leadership is covered throughout and accounts for mistakes ranging from the general officer all the way to the privates on the ground. At the highest level, LT general Ricardo Sanchez failed to understand and acknowledge the severity and delicacy of the situation that his command group was about to enter…

Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg was in Southern Pennsylvania, and was the turning point of the Civil War. It was a three day battle that lasted from July 1st to July 3, 1863. It is the most well known battle of the Civil war, due to the amount of casualties, its large size and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. General George G. Meade led 90,000 Union soldiers to a defeat over General Robert E. Lee’s 75,000 Confederate soldiers. In May of 1863 Lee took his forces and defeated…

Rhetoric permeates our lives through everyday television, messages, advertisements, politics as well as speeches whether we realize it or not. A well-known speech, The Gettysburg Address, fuses many distinctive types of rhetoric such as diction, syntax, rhetorical devices along with the rhetorical triangle into a brief yet compelling speech with a lasting impact on the nation. The speech barely took one minute to deliver with only two hundred and sixty seven words, however Lincoln’s rhetoric…