Battle of Fort Henry

acquired. In 1868, many Lakota leaders agreed to a treaty, known as the Fort Laramie Treaty that created a large reservation in the western half of present-day South Dakota (National Parks Service, n.d.). At this treaty, the Native Americans were given a variety of muzzleloaders that had been utilized during the Civil War. But, the Native's had their eye on lever action rifles and breechloaders from manufacturers like Henry, Spencer, and Sharps. The Warriors acquired these weapons through trade…

The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills, introduced by Henry Clay, passed by congress in attempts to limit the expansion of slavery. Within this compromise, five bills were passed. 1. Fugitive slave law, meaning that any runaway slave shall be captured and returned to original territory. 2. The slave trade in…

wealth and power? If you ask the monarchs back in the medieval years, they would have probably told you “So strong it causes a war between nations”. History has proven their bid for power and wealth. In a specific case, the Hundred Years War was a battle of ownership for the French throne between the English and the French. But the more specific reasons were the ambition of French monarchy to expand their land, which contradicts England’s ambition to keep French land under their control because…

“Great leaders are born, not made” (Tomas Carlyle). True leaders are born with a passion, with a drive; they know their purpose and they will never stop until they reach their goals. No matter what obstacle faces them, they will rise to the challenge and thrive. According to Carlyle, effective leaders are those gifted with divine inspiration and the right characteristics. Saint Joan of Arc was just a young girl when she realized the greatness in her. She was blessed by God at the young age…

The Civil War was between the Confederates (South) and Union (North). It started April 12, 1861 and ended May 9, 1865. The Civil War took place in the United States; more than 620,000 soldiers died. It all started when Confederate troops fired on Fort, Sumter, at the U.S military post in Charleston, South Carolina. Slavery had been an issue from 1619-1865. Some people think the Civil War was about the slaves freedom, others thought it was about state’s rights(Allen 1). Slaves usually lived a…

Lake Champlain. All were fought off by the Canadians. The Americans then attacked by sea and were more successful. Oliver Hazard Perry: captured a British fleet in Lake Erie. General Harrison's army overtook the British at Detroit and Fort Malden in the Battle of the Thames in October 1813. Thomas Macdonough: naval officer who forced the invading British army near Plattsburgh to retreat on September 11, 1814; he saved upper New York from British conquest. Washington Burned and New Orleans…

fail. The Battle of the Somme was a complete military blunder when the fight broke out on that dreadful July 1st morning in 1916, to when it ended on November 18th, 1916. Despite the fact that the French needed relief from the German’s at Verdun, the Somme Offensive was only supposed to be a short battle. What it turned into was a mass killing of numerous troops on both sides of the battle due to failed strategies and relentless pressure despite the death. Therefore, while the Battle of the…

of treaties, acts, and battles going on. In 1794, President George Washington sent John Jay to London, to avoid war with Britain. John Jay had to negotiate with the British to remove their forts from the U.S soil, including their troops, and to stop supplying weapons to Indians. This was known as the Jay Treaty. After the negotiation, the British still maintained trading posts on U.S soil and sold firearms to Indians. The British told the U.S that they will remove their forts only if the U.S…

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: The causes of the Civil War The civil war lasted for a period of 4 years from the year 1861 to 1865. The war led to more than six hundred thousand casualties. The traces for the civil war are mainly from the tension that formed early in the history of the United States. The vast size of the United States resulted in divergent lifestyles and cultures in the South and North which were dictated by climatic and geographic differences producing raw materials which led…

At first, Lincoln tried to avoid the topic of slavery. In fact, in his first inaugural speech, he said he would not force the emancipation of slaves onto southerners, but would also not allow it to expand to the western United States. With this notion, states began to seceded from the Union and war began to break out between the north and the south. As the war progressed and more states seceded, Lincoln began to fear he would lose the war. He was losing his funding, a large number of soldiers…