Battle of Hastings

The eleventh general was called the polemarch –or commander-in-chief- who voted on what to do with the army if the other ten couldn’t come to an agreement. Despite being heavily outnumbered the Greeks military strategy helped them win the decisive battle at…

After the battle, Robert E. Lee, retreated to Virginia on July 4th, 1863. His army was severely weakened, with about 28,000 captured, wounded, or killed. The Union army also suffered about 23,000 similar losses (Benson). Lee’s army withdrew to the southwest through a driving rain in a wagon train stretching 17 miles (Aines). During the retreat, Lee repeated his remarks at the failure of Pickett’s Charge: “It is all my fault, I thought my men were invincible.” Robert E. Lee offered his…

GETTYSBURG Introduction The Civil war began in 1861 and ended in 1865 during this time there were many significant battles. Prior to General Robert E. Lee’s advancement north into the Union’s territory the Union Army has unsuccessfully attacked the Confederate Army several times. General Robert E. Lee takes the Confederate Army and marches north. The battle of Gettysburg takes place from July 1, 1863 to July 3 1863 in a small town called Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee is leading the…

The effects of war are often calculated in terms of costs for weapons, equipment, gains, and losses with respect to what is being fought over, be it land or other resources. In thinking of war that way, however, we often overlook the very personal costs of war; while we may think in the abstract terms of numbers of dead soldiers, we overlook the cognitive, physical, and psychological on soldiers, civilians, and even the entire world. Indeed, while war shows man’s resilience and sacrifice, it…

book is fictional and uses this period of Aristotle and Alexander’s lives to create a drama. This book makes use of battles Alexander participated in and this essay will view the use of antiquity for these battles. Alexander was in the process of…

Though few details are known about the life of Xenophon, his hatred toward Athens and Athenian democracy is one of the primary themes communicated throughout the body of Xenophon’s work. Born into an aristocratic family within a democratic society that placed commoners in an equal political position to the wealthy, Xenophon was part of a class of people who were “greatly dissatisfied…with the operation of democracy.” Even if he had not been born into an aristocratic social class that showed…

Sabrina Pineda Adamek/Yates English 06 May 2016 The Fault Is Not In Our Stars Some qualities people possess cloud their judgment and prevent their ability to see things thoroughly. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a play written by William Shakespeare, ironically focuses on Marcus Brutus, a loyal friend to Julius Caesar, who perfectly exemplifies this situation. Brutus fears that the public’s desire for a crowned Caesar will overturn the republic, making him more willing to accept the proposal of…

The purpose of this paper is to point out that the Greeks, during the Battle of Thermopylae, had resources at their disposal that would fall into today’s intelligence disciplines of Counter Intelligence and Human Intelligence (CI/HUMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and even Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT). The outcome at Thermopylae could have been altered had the Greeks taken complete advantage of their assets capabilities. This paper will go into detail about how the Spartans could…

Gettysburg Address I. Introduction The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches given by Lincoln. There are various things about the speech that make it so memorable, however, one of the most important parts of the speech is the unity of past and present. Lincoln makes it a point to talk about the past specifically in the first line he states that 87 years ago a new nation was founded and that now is the time to see whether or not this nation can truly endure. This is a powerful…

During the 17th century, many Europeans, especially the English came over to America in search of a life better than the one they had in England. In the early to mid 1600s, two different groups of people, the participants from the Virginia Company and the Puritans. Despite this similarity, both the participants and the Puritans had other intentions of moving to America and with this, many other differences. Taking all the advantages and disadvantages the two groups had into consideration, the…