British Army

The United States Coast Guard describes the undertaking as “...one of the greatest in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard (“Bernard C. Webber, USCG”, 1).” The United States Coast Guard is a merger of five Federal agencies that were once independent, but with overlapping responsibilities. These agencies are the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service ("U.S. Coast Guard History", 1). Since this is the…

The Naval Surface Warfare Center is located in Panama City just 90 minutes South of Fort Rucker. I found out they had camping and a small marina. We bought an old Apache pop up tent trailer for $250 for weekend recreation. The trailer had seen better days, but I decided I could make new canvas sides and rebuild it. I took the old cloth off the trailer and disassembled the panels so I could get a pattern just as I had done with the Porsche S-90 seats. Within a couple weekends, it was finished…

Gibson by naming the school library in his honor. Richard L. Hearn was named the school's inaugural chancellor in 1967. Brock University is named after Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, who educated the British and Canadian powers in the midst of the War of 1812. Regardless of the way that the British and Canadian qualities proceeded to win, Brock lost his life in the midst of the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812, combat 20 km from the present-day site of the grounds. His last words are said…

In 1778, the American Revolutionary War was raging in the British Colonies. At this point of the war, the British had failed to accomplish their goal of quickly ending the rebellion and were trying to find a strategy that would defeat the rebel forces. Military historian John Shy describes this period in which the British strategy was changed by breaking up the war into three stages in his “The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War” chapter of his book A People Numerous and Armed.…

for what they believe in they can defeat even the strongest of armies. The historical fiction film follows a South Carolinian by the name of Benjamin Martin, a man who fought in the French and Indian War and now wants a quiet and peaceful life with his family on their plantation. With his wife dead and his oldest son fighting in the war, he will do anything to protect the remainder of his family. When his home is burned by the British army and his young son, Thomas, is killed by Colonel William…

the Georgia Continentals lacked uniformity and discipline. The Continentals changed to Von Steuben's manual in 1777 and it improved their combat effectiveness. Steuben’s hands-on style of training helped the army become a more skillful fighting force and at the same time gave the army new life. Von Steuben’s manual stream lines the 1764 Manuel to make the doctrine more effective and efficient. The Georgia Continentals utilized three types of infantry. Light infantry assaults were used to…

One part of the book that I read and took a liking to was about a woman named Mammy Kate. She was a slave who traveled 50 miles to rescue her master, a Patriot. Mammy went to the British fort and asked to work as a washerwoman. Using her skills, she smuggled her master out in a laundry basket (that she balanced on her head by the way), saving him from his execution of death. In return for her job, she was given her freedom and then…

British General John Burgoyne received orders to isolate the New England colonies from the others. The British army began their campaign in the New England colonies during the summer of 1777. Burgoyne’s procedure to cut off the New England colonies involved his troops in Quebec traveling south to Albany, New York where he would meet Howe’s troops traveling north. While in route to Albany, Burgoyne captured American forts like Fort Ticonderoga. Meanwhile, General William Howe’s army traveled…

How America Won Her Independence From the British Empire Today when one thinks of the American Revolution, it is almost ingrained in the American psyche to think of the Fourth of July, and with out fail every summer on that date the Revolution story is told. However the story of Americas Revolution did not begin in the sweltering summer heat of Philadelphia in 1776, instead the winter of 1773 in the frigid waters of Boston Harbor. That December night American protested the Tea Act passed…

The American colonist rebelled against the British to gain identity as a republican society. Among the colonies raised an issue on who will rule the home font. During the revolutionary war, there was a rebellion against the trade restriction that Britain was imposing on America. Therefore Americans were influenced on Patrick Henry by wanting freedom from the king that was Patrick Henry’s purpose for his speech. The British colonist decided to stay loyal to the king because they thought there…