Colonel of the Regiment

I’ve never experienced when reading and learning about history. The way that Shaara retold the story using old letters and viewpoints of people who stood on that battlefield is exhilarating. By also using old maps of army’s locations and how each regiment was moved gave a surreal feel as if I was standing there. I wasn’t excited about reading this book in the…

Even though many people believe Paul Revere had no significant impact on the course of America’s history, the fact of the matter is he had a dramatic impact especially in the American Revolution; Ultimately Paul Revere shaped a great portion of American history with his role in The Boston Massacre, the famous ride to Lexington and Concord, and other historical events. In 1758 Paul Revere was twenty-three years old. Before Paul Revere made an impact on America, he was a gold and silversmith.…

The Role of the Hudson Bay Company: 1. What was the Hudson Bay Company? When was it created? The iconic, Hudson’s Bay Company was a North American operation, created from the demand for the popular 17th century, beaver fur felt hats. King Charles II financially backed French traders, Medard Chouart des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s idea, of creating a trading company in 1670 , around the Hudson Bay, which would give them easier access to the financially growing products of the new…

"The First World War was Canada's education in the art of being a sovereign state, and it was a very good times to learn" (Dyer, canada.com). During World War 1, Canadian soldiers entered the war be association as one of Great Britain's colonies. Many Canadians were part of the war effort. The troops were strong and fought hard, gaining a reputation of being formidable soldiers. After the war, a representative from Canada, Prime Minister Borden, was allowed to sign the treaty of Versailles, and…

Hamilton had an insatiable taste for military victory and seized a slight reprimand from Washington as reason for abandoning his staff position. However, he secured a field command though Washington and won laurels at Yorktown for leading an infantry regiment that captured Redoubt Number 10, a British fortification in the siege of Yorktown in 1781. Hamilton married a daughter of General Philip Schuyler on December 14th, 1780, three years before the end of the American War for Independence. The…

of Alaska. This worried very many people for a very long period of time. After a few weeks from the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to go back over the plans for the highway. This was the first step in what one army colonel characterized as the ‘biggest and hardest job since the Panama Canal.’ Working as group obstacles were overcome toward completion of the project. In only nine months a rapidly marshaled force of almost 16,000 soldiers and civilians forged 1,422…

defeated, Aaron Burr was an excellent soldier during the attack on Quebec that Montgomery made on December 31, 1775. He served for a fairly short amount of time on George Washington’s staff in the year of 1776. In 1777, he took order of a regiment as a lieutenant colonel that was vital during the Battle of Monmouth. Later in the war, he defended against cavalry forays as well as British guerrilla raids. “The job proved extremely difficult, and Burr preserved as long as he could” (“The…

Iraq’s triangle of death, located in the southern region of Baghdad and bordering the Euphrates River is the area where major combat activity and sectarian violence was introduced from late 2004 through fall 2007. This is the area in which the soldiers of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1-502dn Infantry Battalion of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division operated. The 502 was posted near the triangle of death, losing a soldier a week. Their severely undermanned operation sustained constant casualties in…

excelled in the military school. He was a great soldier and was called a lot before being the leader of Great Britain. “ In November 1915 Churchill resigned from the government and returned to soldiering, seeing active service in France as lieutenant colonel of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers”(Nicholas…

The Korean War The Korean War, a war that started out with a quick victory in mind, quickly became a war with between the two superpowers of its current generation. With communism hoping to spread to all corners of the world, only thing stopping it is democracy, it laid its sight on South Korea. A war that showed no promising result for both sides, yet committed over 1.3 million casualties. The war ended with both sides receive severe losses and gained very little in return. This war showed the…