Musket

supplies, and telegraphic communication permitted both governments to coordinate military movements in widely separated areas. The conflict featured numerous applications of recent military technology, among the most important of which were the rifle musket carried by most infantrymen on both sides and ironclad warships that saw action on a broad scale.…

and the British took complete control over India. Also, when China wanted to end opium trade because a large percentage of the population was addicted to opium, Great Britain refused and declared war on China. Western military weapons, like lock muskets and paddlewheel gunboats, were far superior to China’s. Britain’s troops were tough and could get warships and provisions from its nearby colonies in Southeast Asia and India. The result was a disaster for the Chinese. By the summer of 1842…

implements including knives, axes, and chisels. They wove baskets, made pottery, and cultivated corn(Maize), beans, and squash. Deer, bear, and elk furnished meat and clothing” (“Cherokee” 1). Once the Europeans came along to trade many items including muskets or “Boom Boom Sticks”, metal knives and weapons, pastured animals, and the luxurie of cloth. The colonizing of the Europeans also brought the loss of much of the Cherokees land. In 1775 the Cherokee signed the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals…

Set during 17th century within the colonization of New France, Black Robe written by Brian Moore, depicts the interactions between Jesuits spreading the word of their faith and Native Americans desperately holding on to their traditions. The novel shares the journey of Father Laforgue and his assistant Daniel traveling with an Algonkian tribe to a destination just beyond a set of rapids. The two unlikely travelers are on their way to an established Jesuit mission site settled amongst a Native…

Thomas Jefferson & the Alien and Sedition Acts In June and July of 1798 conservative Federalists pushed a series of repressive measures through Congress. They were known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. As it is stated in American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, “the Alien Enemies Act gave the president the power to arrest or expel aliens in time of ‘declared war.’ ” The Alien Act also gave the president the ability to expel all aliens that he thought were “dangerous to the peace and safety of…

To properly answer this question, we first have to identify what exactly the founding fathers vision actually was. Now, we obviously can't say for certain, as they lived over two hundred years ago, but we can formulate an educated guess by examining quotes from the founding fathers, their actions, and the constitution itself. Although, even in their quotes, the founding fathers do seem to contradict each other, as well as occasionally themselves. However, amongst the other contradictory and some…

The current field of research into the cause of the downfall of the knightly class generally agrees that it was primarily a result of the introduction of gunpowder weaponry, but some recent scholarship suggests otherwise. Up through the present, historians have believed that the gunpowder revolution in military technology predominantly caused the knightly class in Europe to disappear, because unlike previous ranged weapons developments, firearms took no skill to operate and had the power to…

illness. It is estimated that seventy-five percent of the native population died because of violence and fighting or because of diseases like smallpox and measles during the first hundred years of the European conquest (Szalay). Further advantages like muskets, gunpowder, and horses contributed to the victory of the conquistadors. When the capital of Tenochtitlan fell apart, the Spaniards took the city apart brick by brick, and built modern day Mexico City on the ruins of the once great capital…

In the Drummer Boy of Shiloh the points of view are 1st and 3rd. “Me, i'm the one, i'm the one of all the rest won't die. I'll live through it.” (Drummer Boy line 31) “Now and again the boy heard a vast wind come up, that gently stirred the air. But he knew what it was, the army here, the army there, whispering to itself in the dark.” (Drummer Boy line 24) The mood of the story is having courage and never giving up. The points of view and the mood work together to make up the story. In the first…

Essay on Colin Calloway, We Have Always Been the Frontier: The American Revolution in Shawnee Country. The Shawnee Indians has resisted the Americans and fought for their own revolutionary war for two decades before and after the American Revolutionary War. They had been “fighting for their freedom long before Lexington and, as for many Indian peoples, the Revolution renewed and intensified familiar pressures on their lands and culture” (Nichols, 118). The Shawnee leader Cornstalk united the…