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    usually never the best option. In the unit, four wars and violent engagements were covered; the Seven Years War, Pontiac’s Rebellion, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The British and the French were fighting these wars, along with the Natives that were involved in some of the wars. Tension between the British and French grew rapidly, and reached a point when war seemed like the only option. All of the wars covered this unit were fought during a relatively short period of time;…

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    He states that the basic branches utilized by the British Regular Army in America were the infantry, cavalry, and artillery. All these were separate battalions, unlike the Queen’s Rangers who had all three of these basic army branches in one corps. These branches made up the basics of all armies during the eighteenth century and the fact that the Queens Rangers had all three made them extremely effective from a command standpoint…

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    faced frostbite, starvation, no help, and a dilemma if they should leave or continue fighting in the Continental Army. Valley Forge was the base camp of the Continental Army and a lookout over the British. During the time there, numerous soldiers died and the conditions of the area were harsh. So the question facing all the soldiers was, would you quit? As a soldier in the continental army at Valley Forge I am enlisting again because, I need to help the sick men, I want to stay loyal to my…

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    on the 31st of July 1914, and transferred the administration of Germany (except Bavaria) to local army commanders who were above pre-existing civilian authorities in an attempt to secure the volume of raw materials required by the army to fight this war, an early example of the State intervening into the economic organisation of Germany. …companies nationalised to help supply demand?. The German Army High Command in 1916 openly set out to limit the power held by parliament, to discipline…

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    Provincials were known as “minutemen before their time”, and the regulars “functioned as a cipher for assumptions about British society.” (Way 2) Provincials made more money than the regulars, but they both underwent nearly unequivocal experiences labor-wise. All soldiers were merely paid, military labor, and as Peter Way stated, “They were viewed as repressive aids to the…

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    German military bargained to begin the war by readying their troops, the German diplomats were working extensively to ensure that if war began, the British forces would remain neutral and not against them. However, this was not exactly the case, Britain did not want Germany to violate Belgium’s neutrality by influencing them to join them. The British troops were ready to protect Belgium, they were ready to help Belgium because they were obligated to by the Treaty of London of 1839. The 1893…

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    The Patriot Inaccurate

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    Benjamin Martin is a fictional character who is based off of Francis Marion. Francis Marion in some ways is different from Benjamin Martin. However in some aspects they are the same. For example, Benjamin Martin and Francis Marion participated in the British army. But, they also differ because Francis Marion raped and forced himself upon his slaves. That is very different from the way Benjamin Martin treated his slaves. In the movie he treated them as “equals” and a family. He was kind to them.…

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    Invention Of Airpower

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    Even if not recognized as a possible weapon at the beginning, on September 3 1914 French air patrol used airplane for observation of general Kluck’s army northeast of Paris. Information obtained from the air helped French forces to make Germans to withdraw thus proving airplane usefulness for military purposes.4 To the military this new technology, as a product of a new aeronautical science, opened…

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    Ww1 Romantic Perspective

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    and certain British and German officers on the Western front in the readings who wrote about their…

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    citizen. Food being an issue for such a large army, when moving or chasing an enemy army, often they would just take what they wanted from the surrounding towns and…

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