Irish Civil War

leadership guided the North and South landscape, but the military leadership guided the battlefield. The Civil War was a modern war compared to the Napoleonic wars and for the South; Lee is seen by some scholars as a leader out of touch with modern warfare while other generals such as those from the Union were waging a modern style of warfare. In the article, An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General, Gary Gallagher takes a historiographical approach of how…

extreme social tension. The animosity was a result of the new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. Spanning three days, July 13th through the 16th, 1863, the riots were the culmination of the longstanding working class and largely Irish racial, political and religious resentment of the government. Working class Irish immigrants had suffered inflation, food shortages, and virulent discrimination and unemployment. Draft Laws which took effect…

English Civil War was a turning point in English history and in the life of an ordinary country gentlemen, Oliver Cromwell. The English Civil War started in 1642 and ended in 1651. During those nine years, Oliver Cromwell rose in rank to the position of Protectorate because of his relationship with his capable troops and military skill in battle. While historians debate his role, Oliver Cromwell was an effective leader in trying to create a better England. Before the English Civil War of 1642…

he explored America’s motivation for war, and the likelihood of America winning any such war with such meager manpower and lack of tactical reasoning. The following points are arranged in a comprehensible order, made so that the reader can confront the flaws in America’s plan to go to war with England with considerable ease. The first of such issues addressed is the utter lack of reason to go to war in the first place, followed by the incapability to go to war at the colonies’ current state, and…

novel, Triage, portrays the different effects that war and death can have on people. Mark, Joaquin, and Elena endure different experiences with war and death and are affected in different ways. Mark’s traumas originate from his time as a war photographer. His ability to capture war’s most grueling moments grants him the opportunity to shoot in many war-torn areas such as Beirut, Sri Lanka, Kurdistan, and Uganda. Mark’s first experience of war is in Beirut. He describes the fighting in Beirut…

about to come against the conspirators. In this piece, Antony begs pardon of Caesar’s dead body for having been nice to his murderers. He predicts that Caesar’s spirit will be ranging for revenge, and it will be followed by chaos and destruction of civil war in all of Italy. Antony is calling for revenge, as he wants the conspirators to pay up for what they have done to Caesar. He implies this by using an angry tone and connotation of aggressive words, the…

highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of reading. The civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud had been waging for years. It is the summer of 1138, in Medieval England. This makes the process of solving a murder more interesting, as there is no modern CSI. There are, however, good old…

time of the civil war, New York was the biggest industrial city…

This panel demonstrated the importance of how an interdisciplinary approach to global issues, such as terrorism is pivotal if we want to fully understand the reasons behind these tactics of war. Moreover, it is in the intersection of these disciplines what will facilitate deeper understanding and greater communication of our global problems in the future. Thus, an interdisciplinary perspective provide us with the opportunity to draw from the…

economic growth in 41 African countries during 1981–99, to conclude that “growth is strongly negatively related to civil conflict: a negative growth and that the impact of growth shocks on conflict is not significantly different in richer, more democratic, or more ethnically diverse countries” (p. 275). For example in the case of Rwanda a country that has suffered the consequences of civil wars for decades, Serneels and Verpoorten (2012) using micro level data estimated that during the early…