Loyalist

Canada has a relatively short history at about 150 years but it does cultivate many people that had great contributions to the country and the world. John A. Macdonald is the first prime minster of Canada and a truly funding father of this country. Ellen Louks Fairclough, the first woman who had served in the Canadian cabinet, as a member of parliament, she advocated women's rights including equal pay for equal work. David Suzuki is the best-known environmentalist in Canada; he organized the…

The Irish Republican Army started off not as a terrorist group but as a military organization and even took part in the Irish War of Independence. However, having lost the civil war they took part in, they stayed in existence with the plot to overthrow the Irish Free State and made their defiance against the British well know. They made its existence known to the world as a terrorist organization in the 1960s as the Clandestine “armed wing” of the Sinn Fein movement. They were devoted to…

that [they] find it impossible to comply with what is now demanded, consistent with [their] Obligations to [their] Constituents [citizens of the colony]” (New York General Assembly 1766). Even the New York Assembly, which addresses the Governor in a loyalist manner, refuses to comply with the unjustified Quartering…

Tension were built between British authorities and the colonists a lot of years before the outbreak of the American Revolution. Attempts by the British government to raise income by taxing the colonies met with warmed dissent among numerous colonists, who disdained their absence of representation in Parliament and requested an indistinguishable rights from other British subjects. Pioneer protection prompted brutality in 1770, when British warriors opened fire on a crowd of colonists,…

From the colonial period to the end of Civil War, slavery used to play a crucial role throughout the American history. It not only recorded a long period of darkness, which lack of freedom and justice, but also witnessed the growth of American’s humanity and national politics. Today, by analyzing corresponding historical events from time to time, it should be easy to demonstrate that the institution of slavery was an irreplaceable issue of the past. Undoubtedly, it certainly promoted the…

To modernize this, imagine your entire school was given a bad mark on their portfolio only because a couple of students stood up to the principal for being unfair. That one mark would affect high school, college, and even your job! That's what colonists had done upon them, but much worse. What happened was that a small group of Boston colonists had destroyed more than 300 boxes of tea, by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. That's when King George III finally had it and enforced the Coercive…

Many different weapons were used in the Revolutionary War. Each side of the war preferred different tactics. With different tactics came different weapons, and each weapon had its positives and negatives. Wars usually require weapons, soldiers, and tactics; with war comes threats and reasons for fighting. Some of the weapons used in the war were flintlock muskets, rifles, bayonets, hanger swords, and hunting swords(Linda Alchin). The primary gun of the Revolutionary War was the flintlock…

she became ill and passed away. When Alexander was sixteen years old, he attended King’s College in New York. Attracted to politics, when he was seventeen, he wrote an article defending the Patriots cause against the interests of Pro-British Loyalists. Due to his love of politics, he dropped out of college and joined the Patriots in their protests. In 1775, Hamilton began his military career and fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, and Trenton all during the War of 1812. Two…

At a time Bharatavarsha was largely fragmented with Greek invaders still lurking around (left by Alexander), a brahmin scholar masterminded their expulsion and reinstated a powerful Indian empire using the military strength of Chandragupta Maurya. Mired in myths, the name Chanakya, invokes to this day, the image of a scheming strategist who used realpolitik as a necessary means to common good. Two millenniums later, the modern nation-state of India found itself in more dire conditions. Four…

If one has or receives too much control, will it cloud one 's personal beliefs and ideas? Some may assume power is something one can benefit from. But the hold it can sometimes take can be overwhelming and controlling. Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a an allegorical and a dystopian fable about an atrocious drunk farmer who can 't seem to attain to his farm in a mannerly way. The novella starts off with the animals getting influenced by what their life would be like if animals were equal. The…