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…
Peyton Cardoza Shingara English- Period 5 21 February 2016 Works Cited "Battle of Agincourt | European History." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Jan. 2016. Web. 21 Feb. 2016. . In this article, published by the respected Encyclopedia Britannica, The Battle of Agincourt is presented in a factual manner that doesn’t seem to contain much bias or prejudice. The article has no specific author, however, the organization has been a credible informative tool used…
The state of West Virginia charged Keeney, Mooney and some 20 other union men with treason, and hundreds of others were indicted for murder. Nearly all were later acquitted, but the legal battles emptied the UMWA’s coffers and hindered its organizing efforts. By the end of the decade, only a few hundred miners in West Virginia were still members. The union wouldn’t reclaim the coalfields until the mid-1930s and the Great Depression, when workers’…
The Battle of Gettysburg is remembered as one of the bloodiest battle in American History and cost almost 50,000 lives. The Union came out as the victors, yet as Lincoln stood before the crowd at Gettysburg no one rejoiced over this turning point in the war. Grief filled the nation and nationalism decreased as the war dragged on. Abraham Lincoln appeals to war patriotism and inspires his audience by highlighting the beliefs of the nation and the work that needs to be completed by the living in…
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…
Originally, he started out as the leader of a volunteer Ohio army and did a phenomenal job of training the volunteer soldiers, which resulted in his promotion to major general of the main Union army. As a major general, he won a string of small battles in the western part of Virginia. However, as the Civil War progressed, McClellan was unable to make the right decisions in crucial moments. He was simply too cautious and believed that the Confederates had more firepower than they did in reality.…
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…
On August 15, the crisis of the battle of Britain was reached. All the resources of Fighter Command in the South were used. The most difficult, and dangerous period of the Battle of Britain was between August 24 and September 6, when the German attack was directed against the R.A.F airfields in the South of England with considerable success. There was an intense public interest in the air battles above and in sight of the British public that summer but Churchill…
stereotypes her as the typical damsel in distress, while men are fighting out on the battlefield killing one another, Kathrine is away from the fight away in a quiet and peaceful town waiting for the end results of the battle. She is far from the battlefield so that once the battle is done she can marry King Henry and reunite the two kingdoms. King Henry does end up winning Paris and goes directly to Katherine, whom he has never met and says “I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to…
Introduction On the second day of July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was assigned to the far left of the Union line at the critical position of Little Round Top. With no other available options or ammunition, the 20th Battalion of Maine executed a bayonet charge led by Chamberlain at Confederate General John B. Hood’s approaching troops. Chamberlain’s act of courageousness and stoutheartedness led to the retreat of Hood’s men, the successful…