Lieutenant Colonel

Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880 at a military base in Little Rock, Arkansas. His dad, Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, was a war hero. His mother was Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, and her brothers had fought during the civil war. Douglas MacArthur was born into a military family and was expected to be great. He had two brothers, both of whom died when he was fairly young. As a child, Douglas and his family moved around to different army stations very often. MacArthur said,…

Even though his men were in a constant-struggle, Washington needed to look after his own needs. Promising his men that he would "share in the hardship" and "partake of every inconvenience," Washington settled into a house near Valley Forge Creek. Washington brought his closest aides to the two-story house, and began to write letters to Congress. He demanded for more supplies for his soldiers, saying that his army “might dissolve” if something didn’t happen soon. His men were sick, starving, and…

By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class. In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the…

American theatre because her work was directly impacted by her early life and artistic influences which left a lasting impression on society. Suzan-Lori Parks was born on May 10th, 1964 in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Her father, Donald Parks, was a lieutenant colonel in the United…

bloodhounds, now fought in the same uniforms and under the same banner as the sons, husbands, and fathers who had enlisted from Iowa’s farms and towns, yet in their deployment of bloodhounds the Confederate army refused to acknowledge the change. Colonel Thomas Wentsworth Higginson, the white commander of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, United States army’s first black regiment, wrote in his memoirs that near Pocataligo, a “a ‘dog company,’ consisting of mounted rifleman with a half dozen…

The first Canadian unit committed to battle in the Great War. The Great War was also called as World War 1. Nine million people died on the battle field in the war. The Canadian light infantry were made by an idea of Andrew Hamilton Gault, and Lieutenant Colonel Francis Farquhar. Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was involved in five major battles. On the 10th of August of 1914 was made. Canada was alliance with the British Empire, Serbia, Russia, and France against the German and…

John Brown was born on May 04, 1800 in Torrington Connecticut and his father was Owen Brown and Mother Ruth Mills Brown. John’s father worked as a tanner, making leather from animal skins. Owen Brown had a large tanner’s business and moved his family to Hudson Ohio John was raised in a very religious family and area who originated a Puritans and studied to be a minister in Connecticut but after flunking out he started working for his father to be a tanner. After becoming a foreman in his…

Kokoda Track WWII The Kokoda track or otherwise known as the Kokoda trail is commonly known for the battle taken place between Japanese and Australian/American/Papua New Guinean forces. This battle went on for a treacherous four months and both sides had to withstand Papa New Guinea’s climate, tropical terrain, lack of food and lack personal hygiene. The Australian side contained over 56,000 troops, which were always contributing by either being on the ground or taking part in air and sea…

said “We are treated like wild animals here, like we are inhuman…. Civilian policies have threatened to kill several soldiers” (19) the White Americans continued to treat the blacks as unequals . Africans Americans were even getting threats from Lieutenant Bromberg saying “All Negroes need to be beaten to death….” (19) he don’t…

War does not build courage, turn a boy into a man, or turn soldiers into heroes. It is the The Great War’s terrible conditions, odds, and despair where soldiers distinguish themselves as heroes through many acts of great courage. During battles and in the trenches, soldiers put others before themselves by risking their lives to save them. Charlie and Leo Clarke did everything they could to protect one another in times of need. Soldiers went above the call of duty in order change the course of…