Colonial troops

Thaqif Kamaruszaman Enlightenment and the French Revolution Marques The fires of the revolution that swept the nation of France during the 18th century were fueled by Enlightenment ideas brought in by thinkers, coming from the recent Scientific Revolution, to France composed of various backgrounds. From the execution of a monarchy, to the creation of a monumental empire, the French Revolution was ravaged and fought on the ideas of freedom and justice for all. The people of France were…

New France was the first major French settlement in what is now the country of Canada. Prior to French settlement in the early 17th century, various aboriginals tribes lived in the region for millenniums. The encounter between the French and the aboriginals during the establishment and development of New France affected the aboriginal population in several ways. In the following, the establishment, government, trade, and the following developments of New France will be described with specific…

discourses of rights in terms of British Colonial rule in India. These distinctions emerged alongside the British ‘civilizing mission’ in which the question of rights came to the forefront of the discourse and were matched with the invention of culture. Edmond Burke’s analysis of rights in the context of the French revolution reveals that natural rights are inherited and passed down from generation to generation, as they are forms of tradition. In contrast the colonial project in India rejected…

included a belief in the system of democracy, secularism, and in equality in all areas of life without regard for societal identifiers. To rationalize imperialism under the justification that it would spread and glorify French culture, France’s “colonial ideology explicitly claimed that they were on a ‘civilizing mission’ to lift the benighted ‘natives’ out of backwardness to the new status of civilized French Africans” (Iweriebor). France’s foray into Africa was extensive, but…

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa explores French colonization in the Maghreb region of North Africa, specifically: Tunis, Morocco, and Algeria. The book, unlike many of the others that we have read so far in class, focuses almost exclusively on the viewpoint of the controlling colonial power, rather than on the indigenous persons being ruled. Stripped of cultural context, these chapters provided a striking contrast to the narrative presented in the book Medicine and the Saints…

British encroached upon those on a march to get salt from the Arabian Sea sent a clear, resounding message to anyone who dared defy the British Troops. The intrepid nature of Gandhi was necessary to lead the country to independence, however, as the outrage consequently increased. But the british troops also fired back with equal punch. The british troops were ⅔ british soldiers and ⅓ sepoys, who were Indian soldiers recruited by the british empire. This created a situation akin to one many other…

brutal years, from 1791-1804, and it resulted in 62,000 dead Frenchmen and over 100,000 Haitians deaths. In the end, the Haitians reigned victorious and gained their independence. The sheer length, number of casualties, and overthrow of the French colonial government certainly satisfy the first requirement. The next requirement, fundamental change in the political institution was also attained. After Haiti attained independence, the Haitians assumed control of their own government, set up an…

Question 1 The invasion of the Americas was a long drawn out process. It took many years for a successful attempt was made at colonizing the Americas. Starting with the Spanish and Cortes, in 1519, an attempt was made by the Spanish conquistadors to take over Tenochtitlan. The conquistadors were primarily around to steal money and goods and split it with the Spanish government. Cortes took along with him, eleven ships, five hundred men, and thirteen horses to the Yucatan try and conquer the…

After the fall of Faisal I in 1920, the French colonized the region through military force. The formation of the Syrian National Congress was conducted by French colonial control, which led to the fierce military resistance of Sultan al-Atrash to reunite the French states that were created in order to control political resistance. Al-Atrash was a major figure in the nationalist movement to take back Syria from the…

World was gaining momentum. The beauty of architecture is every country has their own personal style. What separates America is the diversity that has inspired architecture up to this point. Numerous stylings such as Georgian, British colonial and Spanish colonial that originated in parts of Europe have carried over to America permanently to provide a sense of culture that had not yet been seen. Culture change in the New World America was associated with religion, a practice that was strongly…