Colonel of the Regiment

On the Patriot and The Alamo The essence of movie is the head to head battle between the “hero” side and “villain” side. When it comes to historical film, taking a side is difficult since there is no right or wrong in the history. However, movies become more engaging when viewers place themselves into the main character, the “hero” side, even if this character is hard to evaluate. The two movies, the Patriots and the Alamo, clearly follow the model that good movies…

unit’s commander. This battle brought Washington a lot of acclaim in both Virginia and London. Also, during this time period Washington’s Commander, Col. Joshua Fry, died; Which consequently made Washington the Commanding officer of the Virginia regiment. After the battle in which Jumonville was killed, Washington built a small shack at the Great Meadows, near the site of the battle. Soon after though, the French came with a force of regular infantry and Indians 1,200 strong to get revenge for…

to take command of the Williamsburg Militia in the Pee Dee area. Just because he was in charge of the Williamsburg area, the Americans lost the battle that Horatio took charge of. In 1781, Nathanael Greene ordered Francis Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee to attack Georgetown. The two were unsuccessful. Then, in April, they apprehended Fort Watson. After that, the two seized Fort Motte. He had returned to his plantation after the war to find out it had been burned down during the…

MAJ Rivers served with excellence as the CDID MP Material Branch Chief in a Lieutenant Colonel position normally held by Command Selected List MP Battalion Commanders. He developed multiple staff processes to ensure the efficiency in the management of capability and training development in the three disciplines of the Military Police Corps consisting of Police Operations, Detainee Operations and Security Mobility Support. His efforts resulted in three Programs of Record and ten documents…

way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The Battle of Little Bighorn was an important battle, for both the Indians and the United States. During the battle the Indians defeated Lieutenant Colonel Custer which he lost over 200 men which were in the Seventh Cavalry. Although this battle was a great…

consequence was “Field Punishment Number 1,” which was a day long lashing- an unfair penalty for a small altercation. While Hanley thoroughly enjoys punishing Charlie to exert his power, he does not stop at one person. He will happily punish the whole regiment. On one occasion, the soldiers had been victim to a German gas attack. Understandably, they were fearful for their lives, which slowed their ability to act. Sergeant Hanley claimed that they had acted “like a bunch of cowards,” which is in…

Patrick Henry Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1736, to John and Sarah Winston Henry. A symbol of America's struggle for liberty and self-government, Patrick Henry was a lawyer, patriot, orator, and willing participant in virtually every aspect of the founding of America. Henry married Sarah Shelton in 1754, and after Sarah’s death, wed Dorothea Dandridge in 1777. With his two wives, he fathered seventeen children. John Henry, who had attended King's College, University of…

Gettysburg. The leader of that cavalry, John Buford, decides to try to hold the Confederates off and buy time for the reinforcement that would be sent In the meantime, over the Maryland border, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain is waking up. He discovers that he needs to convince a bunch of mutineers from another regiment to stay and fight with his, the 20th Maine. Surprisingly, he finds that the old inspire-them-with-a-speech tactic is pretty successful. He lays out the Union Cause—it's all about…

The Action at Pine Bluff was fought on October 25, 1863, when Brigadier General John Sappington Marmaduke’s Confederate cavalry division attacked the small Union garrison under Colonel Powell Clayton that had occupied Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) following the capture of Little Rock (Pulaski County) on September 10, 1863. The purpose was to return the strategic initiative to the Confederacy. Marmaduke led a force of some 2,000 Rebels out of Princeton (Dallas County) on October 24 to assault…

a mile long, a couple of pieces wide, and right now lessened to rubble by past battle activities in the recurring pattern of a savage war. Yet here, at Chipyong (ni signifies 'town in Korean) in February 1951, the U.s. Armed force's 23rd Infantry Regiment of the second Infantry Division battled the Red Chinese until the very end. Furthermore I, for one, will always remember it. Simply a couple of weeks after the unfortunate annihilation and winter retreat of United Nations drives in North…