led from the front lines making it slightly harder to make tactical changes during battle, but was able to earn the respect of his army in that way. Alexander was the pioneer for adjusting tactics and coming up with creative solutions. When battling the Indians, Alexander saw elephants for the first time and was able to quickly adjust his tactics and defeat the Indians by surrounding the enemy’s elephants and cavalry (Arr p. 279). Caesar was also confronted with tactics that he had not seen…
dog and the Pakistani and Indian Soldiers. During the encounter the with the dog the soldiers demand, “Prove your identity,’ Ram Singh Ordered the dog, who began to wag his tail”(Manto 175). These Indian soldiers went on to argue about whether the stray dog was Indian or Pakistani. The Partition made the soldiers so nationally prejudice that they were even demanding the dog to take a side. The indian claimed the dog as their own and put on the name tag that the dog was Indian. After the Pakistan…
Indian conflict played a significant role in the founding of the United States, starting almost immediately after Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas. When the Spanish settlers arrived in the “new land”, they brought crops, livestock, and advancements in weaponry from their homes; this increased violence between tribes and brought new diseases/invasive species to the Native’s land. Along with bringing physical representation of Europe, the Spanish brought religion, offering…
The Navajo The Navajo is a group of semi-nomadic Native American Indian people. They live in the south-west nation of America that includes New Mexico, California, and Arizona. Most of them lived in hogans. Hogans are cone-shaped buildings covered in clay. Due to their nomadic life, the Navajo wore clothes made from deer hides. In their later life, the deer hides were replaced with knitted wool. They are regarded as fierce warriors who often raided Spanish settlers along the Rio Grande River of…
medal but still suffers from emotional problems and he feels guilty. There are two Native American characters: Private Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Private Charles Whitehorse (Roger Willie). They are sent with others Navajo tribesmen directly from Indian reservations to military academy in order to become code talkers. Navajo language is so unique that it was used during WW II to send encrypted…
Army Counterintelligence (CI) field started in the Revolutionary War, when President George Washington first practiced the art of CI in the Continental Army. After the Revolutionary War, the government viewed the CI field as being necessary only during the time of war, and soon decommissioned the field. This method of activation and deactivation continued even throughout some of US history’s greatest wars: Indian War, War of 1812, Civil War, World War I, and World War II. With each activation CI…
supposed at president George Washington’s inauguration. The lyrics of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” at that time was not the version known today. By 1861, the melody was included in the Union’s “Army Drum and Fife Book,” containing various tunes employed by the music corps for various military and recreational purposes (Army Drum and Fife Book, the). The modern version sung in America today was arranged during the 1830’s, the lyrics written by Samuel Francis Smith. He later sent this song to the…
AKSHAYA CHOUDHARY 1036 SECTION B, III YEAR ENGLISH Andha Yug and Modern War Theory Introduction Andha Yug by Dharamvir Bharati is most commonly read as contemplation on the partition of the Indian subcontinent, and the reworking of the final day of the battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas is also interpreted as an allegory of the war between two modern political states. Rightly so, the play could be taken as an allegory for the war between two technologically modern states, consequences…
military's edicts. The military also has regulations that ensure the recovery and care of injured or retired Military Working Dogs.This care is primarily provided by the Veterinary Division of the United States. The Veterinary Division consist of four U.S. Army Veterinary Corps officers with advanced training, one civilian veterinarian specializing in animal behavior, ten animal care specialists and three animal behavior technicians. However, in the event of emergency or a highly skilled…
Ernest Hemingway once said ”there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” In the story “Indian Camp” Nick, his father and his uncle George travel to an Indian Camp where there is a woman who is having trouble in labor. When approached, the woman is screaming on top of her lungs. Nick asks why, and his father has to explain to him that she is in labor. Nick has an uneasy feeling and keeps looking away. Nick’s father started…