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1415. The two combatants were the French and English. Their force compositions were vastly different. According to Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a French chronicler, the French forces out numbered the English by 6 times (de Monstrelet 340). Despite the overwhelming odds, the English managed to win a decisive victory that ended the lives of much of France’s nobility. However, there is an issue with the account provided by de Monstrelet. Jehan de Wavrin, another French chronicler, was an actual…

Under the picture of the piano, I have a picture of a phrase in Arabic which says Arabic. Arabic is a very important part of who I am because it is my mother language and I speak it a lot of the time. There is also a picture of tabuli, a traditional dish, that has now become very well known all around the world. I also wanted to be more in depth, so included a picture of parsley, and tomatoes, which are two of…

Portuguese were setting up slave trades in various parts of Africa, and the Spanish and French were attempting to divvy up which pieces of the New World and the Caribbean they could own (completely dismissing the local population or enslaving them). The island of Hispaniola was split into two sections, the Spanish’s section, St. Domingo, and the French’s section, St. Domingue. Focusing now on St. Domingue, the French forces enslaved the local population and used their free labor to extract the…

In “The Conquered and the Conqueror: The Mutual Adaptation of the Canadiens and the British in Quebec, 1759-1775”, Donald Fyson gives the reader a view into the political and legal state Canadiens (people from Quebec) were placed in after the conquest of the British. There is almost an idea that these two separate colonies would come together and form a single “distinct society” in Quebec. Although, this is not necessarily the case since much was needed to be done before a society could be…

opposition was that the regime failed to observed the Swiss ways. Unfortunately for the Swiss people, centuries of Swiss tradition we destroyed by the Helvetic Republic’s disregard for the culture, reducing Switzerland to a satellite state of the French. The dislike for the imposed regime eventually…

Bruce Xu Section 2 The Black Napoleon Toussaint L'Ouverture was born in 1742, Haiti. He is also a slave but he was educated. He is the leader in Haiti revolution, and he led Haiti people win the colonial power. This revolution is successful; the slaves was liberated, and Haiti became an independent country without slavery. (McNally) Toussaint L'Ouverture got the freedom before the revolution start, but he finally decided to join the revolution because he was invited by other revolutionaries.…

This has had a direct impact on the distinct character of the North, its people, its culture and its institutions. The North has been the victim of appropriation by the Canadian state, despite the prominent inside influences such a language and culture which allow land natives to see regionalism different from outsiders (Henderson ADD PAGE). A longstanding national desire to establish a common heritage and a national cultural identity, rooted in geography and climate, has pushed the…

Hispaniola economy was built on sugar, coffee, cotton, cacao for chocolate and slave labor. Haiti sugar was an extremely profitable operation that was in competition with the northeast region of Brazil, one of Europe’s chief sources of sugar. The French sugar and coffee operations were so productive that its exports to Europe often exceeded the total exports of the British North American colonies . When Haiti gained its independence in 1804 agricultural output declined. Christophe and Petion…

pro-independence because France was not giving them their rights. The French government was indecisive about giving slaves and diverse people the “Rights of Man” and as soon as the rights were given they would be repealed shortly after. There were about 20,000 people in the white population. The planters were the wealthier side of the population and was pro-independence because they felt they were not well represented under French rule. The petit-blancs were the other side of the white community…

First, the French created an educational system in Morocco and shaped Moroccan strategies and communication. During this time, education defined a person’s social position or rank, where most education was primarily oral, unless there was a private teacher or tutor hired. The French started sending Moroccan students to Egypt, Britain, France, Italy and Spain where they had the opportunity to study…