Battle of Fort Henry

When the American Civil War is brought up, most will recall land battles like at Gettysburg and Antietam; you will be hard-pressed to find the average person evoking Mobile Bay or Charleston Harbor. Most famous is the Civil War that occurred on land; yet, the Civil War that occurred on the sea and in the rivers was a decisive factor to the Union victory and Confederate loss. The American Civil War is known as the “first modern war”, namely because the Industrial Revolution was occurring at the…

Clad in old, ragged clothes with a parrot perched on a shoulder, black eye patches and wooden legs; these people made enemies walk planks and buried treasures on lands unknown. They are called pirates and what we know about them is just half the story of what actually happened on those ships. Piracy was an epoch in the history of civilizations and it too had a Golden Period. The Golden Period of Piracy lasted from mid-1650 to mid-1720s but it started when the Pope divided the New World between…

self vs. your alter ego (pride), beauty, and death. His childhood was no walk in the park and neither was the rest of his life. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. He had two siblings, an elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe and a younger sister Rosalie Poe. His father David Poe Jr., abandoned the family in 1810, Poe’s mother died from pulmonary tuberculosis the next year. He was then sent off to live with John and Frances Allan, separated from his…

because they project power. Castles were vitally important in the way history was written, from tThe Middle Ages to World War II, castles have affected the way battles and other altercations have been decided. Castles are a major symbol of tThe mMiddle aAges, and maybe for an important reason. Castles would protect the village as a fort. Maybe more importantly, they would protect the king as they were homes for kings. Castles were also major architectural advances. Obviously when castles were…

So during the 1614 peaceful period of time, between the colonists and the Algonquian tribes. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who was captured and converted to Christianity had wed. Rolfe had brought back seeds from his voyage from the West Indies and began the cash crop product of Tabacco back to the colony. In 1617, when Pocahontas died on her way back to England, and her father Powhatan died in 1618. Under Powhatan’s successor, Opechankeno, the Algonquians became more and more angry about the…

Trail of Tears The trail of tears is one of the saddest and darkest chapters in American history. The trail of tears was part of the Indian removal act. Thousands of Indians against their will were forced to leave their homes and travel westward. Very few escaped this removal. There were five great Indian tribes that were affected by the Indian removal act. The Cherokee being the most notable and famous of the five great nations, and the only tribe to take their case to the Supreme Court. The…

Introduction: The American Revolution, fought between 1775 and 1783, was the tussle by which the Colonies of North America acquired independence from Great Britain to develop into the United States of America. The war was successful because of the efforts of key leaders in the revolution. Having a broad historical understanding of these leaders is essential in understanding the reasons for the accomplishments of the war, so that educated conclusions can be constructed about the past; so that we…

Jackson led American forces into battle in the southern states against both Spaniards and Indian tribes. Due to this occurrence, Jackson developed a feeling of resentment towards the Indian tribes. This led to the push for removal of the Indians in which Jackson wanted all Indian tribes…

Following his arrival to the American Southwest in 1862, brigadier general James Henry Carleton of the Union Army would oversee the process of destroying Native American powers throughout the Southwest until his reassignment in 1867. The process of destruction took many forms, and was itself simultaneously literal and figurative. In its final stage, this destruction took form as Bosque Redondo; a reservation planned as an experiment by Carleton to finalize the pacification of Native American…

Indians, known specifically as Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, occupied these lands. They were not very happy about the invasion that they brought on their land. The Chickasaw’s led an attack on De Soto’s men, many of them were killed in the Pontotoc Battle of 1541. The Indians that occupied these lands during that time, were not happy about the arrival of The Spaniards. The arrival of Hernando De Soto brought many diseases among the Indians. “During his visit, he unwittingly contaminated the…