Musket

The year of 1862 is upon me and I have just answered to the president's call for 300,000 men to muster in the army. I ought to think that signing up is not about the liberal bounties in the form of greenbacks, but the dignity of true patriotism. Today my focus is to round up all my possessions in order to prepare for my arrival. I arrived to camp a couple weeks ago, and I found it more agreeable than I had anticipated, with new cabins built out of cedar that smelled of woods. The countless…

sketches inventions. He lives up to his title of being the Renaissance man. By far in my opinion the coolest invention by da Vinci was his machine gun. The 33-barrelled organ was never built but it would have been amazing, It would have been made of 33 muskets and fired in intervals of 11 such an invention would easily be able to take down enemies. For a man who did not enjoy the presence of violence he sure did invent an astonishing weapon that could have killed many men.…

Sometimes limits aren’t so troublesome. Without limits for a ruler, that ruler would turn into a tyrant. In the late 1770’s, our Founding Fathers were trying to give birth to an idea that would protect our natural rights, and prevent tyranny. When writing the Constitution, the first draft was actually the Articles of Confederation. However, the government was not very sturdy, and fell apart dreadfully and quickly. In 1786, six out of the thirteen states sent delegates to a conference in…

Diction is extremely prevalent in this excerpt from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. In this text about the violent storming of the Bastille, Dickens uses diction to help the reader visualize the transition from the anticipation of the mob to the chaos and anarchy of the battle. During the beginning of the passage when people were gathering around the streets in preparation for the ensuing violence, Dickens uses language such as “vast dusky mass (1)” , “forest of naked arms (5)”, and “…

Meleoron was having a bad time. Everything started when some shifty organization called Chaldea enlisted him to track down time criminals and fight a "Holy Grail War." Meleoron didn't want to do that. Chaldea didn't care. Then they made him summon "Servants"—powerful warriors from across time and space. Meleoron's past gig had been ordering around people who could pummel him to pulp if they liked, so he didn't want to do that either. Chaldea didn't care. Then he summoned "The Green Goblin."…

for the Europeans after World War I is over. The new technology coming from the Industrial Revolution had rewritten the rules of war. In the days of the Napoleonic wars, it was impossible to kill a whole squadron within a matter of seconds as a musket took about a minute to reload. In World War I, there came the invention of the machine gun and poison gas. These weapons could kill hundreds of men easily and…

ABOUT THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS The Chippewa indians are a large North American tribe. They speak the Algonquian language. The Algonquian language is a music-like language. Aaniin (pronounced ah-neen) is a friendly greeting, while Miigwech (pronounced mee-gwetch) means “Thank you.” The Chippewa pursued a nomadic life. They live in dome-shaped houses of 15-20 ft. These houses are called wigwams. These were built by women and given a small hole in the roof to allow smoke to escape, just like tepees.…

On April 19, 1775, from an unknown origin along the open plains of Lexington, Massachusetts Bay, a musket shot sailed through the open air between where an American militia and a British troop regiment were currently standing off. In its wake, an uncoordinated British retaliation left several militiamen dead. The end of salutary neglect had brought an increasingly tighter grip on the colonists of the still-budding British America, from the restrictive trading policies placed by the Sugar Act to…

they traveled, until about an hour before dark only stopping twice to let the children stretch their legs and use the bathroom. They again made camp by the river. This day, however, Charity has left the boys setting up camp, while she took the old musket and walked up along the…

Due to this common attribute, these three Empires are all referred to as “Gunpowder Empires”. The longest lasting of these was the Ottoman Empire. In the fourteenth century, this empire began cultivating a mastery of advanced artillery such as muskets and cannons. The Empire had an army of 30,000 elite soldiers that the Ottoman rulers brought together by raisings slaves from the Christian…