Bayonet

In the short story written by Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried," O'Brien writes about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. He writes about the items soldiers carried on their backs and on their minds. This is similar to other wars such as the Gulf War in 1990. However, the technology, geographical features, and the politics of the two wars have several differences. There are similarities between Vietnam and Iraq: In both conflicts, there was pressure…

2. The American Revolution was about the unalienable rights of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The American Revolution was a very personal war. Americans fought the British in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, rifles and swords. Why did Americans start this war? It was to win their rights, land, and freedom. Before the colonies could even think about gaining thier independence, they had to fight a long and gruesome war. Even after the first outbreak of battles in the…

So the battle then turned into hand-to-hand combat. The soldiers fought with their rifle butts and bayonets. A white officer named Captain M.M Miller said “It was a horrible fight, the worst I was ever engaged in.” Many people believed that since many of the soldiers were slaves, was why they fought even harder and that their hatred towards slavery fueled…

a mess and Liliuokalani in an even bigger heap of trouble. Kalākaua (and the Hawaiian people in general) believed the land to be sacred and under pressure from the U.S. government, pondered to surrender Pearl Harbor to the Navy; this lead to the Bayonet…

on King Street. It was also called the State Street Massacre before it became known as the Boston Massacre. Every year on March 5th, The Boston Massacre gets reenacted at the site of the incident. “Another 20 British soldiers appeared with fixed bayonets, the crowd grew to as many as 300 boys and men, and after about 30 minutes of being taunted and pelted with rocks and sticks, one of the soldiers opened fire. A few minutes later, 11 members of the mob were dead or wounded” (dummies.com).…

five prisoners and Ishmael was picked to practice killing on one. “The corporal gave the signal with a pistol shot and I grabbed the man’s head and slit his throat in one fluid motion. His Adam's apple made way for the sharp knife, and I turned the bayonet on its zigzag edge as I brought it out.” (Beah 125). 4. Brutality, especially emotional brutality, also played an extensive role in the civil war of Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah explains this in his memoir A Long Way Gone. “I…

Did you know the Battle of Gettysburg was the biggest battle ever fought in North America? There were 160,000 men that fought in the battle. The Union Army was led by Major General Gordon Meade and had 85,000 men. The Confederate Army was led by General Robert Lee and had 75,000. men. The battle occurred the first three days in July of 1863. This was General Lee and the Confederate Army’s second attack in the North. General Lee led the Confederate Army to the North to fight to pressure…

As the Hawaiian League, their goal was to strengthen constitutional they forced Kalakaua to sign the Bayonet constitution. This caused the Hawaiians to lose the right to vote, most power from Kalakaua went to the cabinet. A the Committee of Public Safety, their goals where to overthrow the queen, set up a provisional government, and apply for annexation…

THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL Bunker Hill is part of the Charleston peninsula, located between the Mystic and Charles Rivers. This area is known as Dorchester Heights in the southern part of Boston. From there you could see Boston and the Harbor. Colonist knew that the British were gathering just off the coast decided they must prevent this buildup. So on the evening of June 16, 1775 Colonel William Prescott led more than twelve hundred soldiers from Cambridge to fortify the area around…

Kendall Jenner was advertising for Pepsi. Kendall Jenner is a fashion model. She was born in california into a rich family. In this photo Kendall hands a police officer a pepsi during a riot. This photo is taken from a commercial from PepsiCo in April 2017. In the commercial Kendall Jenner walks from a photo shoot after noticing a riot. She removes a blonde wig and joins the protesters. She grabs a pepsi from a cooler and makes it to the front lines of the riot. She hands an unarmed police…