Nuclear artillery

Many people may not know that Air Defense Artillery lineage comes from Coastal Artillery Corps. It was created after the revolutionary war in order to protect the United States coasts against naval attacks and bombardments by ships. Air Defense Artillery has come a long way and has had to continuously evolve in order to protect the US from adversaries and danger. From the Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M-16 Halftrack to Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, the mission has always been to protect the United States at all cost. Even though the Air Defense Artillery is very different then when it started as Coastal Artillery, the Concept remains the same. Coast Artillery Corps was established in 1901 from a division of the US Army Artillery.…

from the southeast through the Menin Gate and from the south through the Lille Gate. By 9 pm that night, about 10,000 troops filled the town. A few days later on October 13, 1914 the French and English armies entered the Ypres area, taking up defensive positions to limit the advance of the German army. Fighting shortly broke out, and in January 1915, there was a stalemate between the Allied and German armies. The Allies held their positions firmly on the Front Line from the northeast to the…

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature…

Descriptive One of the most amazing pieces of artwork located at the New Orleans Museum of Art is the sketch for “The Pest House of Jaffa”. This piece of art work was done by the French history and neoclassical painter Antoine-Jean Gros in 1804. This painting is an oil painting on canvas and has the approximate dimensions of 12 x 24 inches. The painting was commissioned by Vivant Denon for Napoleon. The painting is a sketch that is depicting Napoleon Bonaparte in the city of Jaffa visiting…

that has taken artillery fire and has his hip nearly blown to pieces with his bone splintered in numerous directions (Remarque 71). This happens to be one of the new recruits to sent replenish the Second Company after its devasting loss at the beginning of the book of seventy men. With Remarque’s ghastly description of what is left of the recruit, it shows just how awful the war can be and drives the anti-war position deeper into the reader’s mind. Moreover, the visual imagery that the author…

Mexican-American war even though the battle took place days before America declared war on Mexico. The battle was short lived, proving the American artillery tactics and armament far superior to that of Mexico. The number of casualties Mexico took during this short battle was more than double that of America. Zachary Taylor, an American General from Virginia, was born in 1784. He was born into a wealthy family of slave owners and always wanted to be a military man. At the age of 24, he…

Imagine this, your 25-year-old son is in war, fighting for the sake of your country and your people. You are finally about to reunite with him after a long wait for his return. Imagine this, you receive a knock at your door 1 week before you were promised that your son, who is fighting for war, will be returning back home safely. Someone you’ve never met before tells you the most devastating news and before you know it, your son will not be returning home ever again. Imagine how this would feel,…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…

was changing so rapidly that there was a demand for new creations and inventions that scientists were becoming very in demand. The civil war was a good learning curve for many other armies, the learned thus use of mass transportation was very efficient. The rail ways were key to moving troops and weaponry quickly and in large numbers from point A to point B. Trains could move from 10 to 15 times faster than soldiers marching on foot. Boats had also come a long way in a short period of time…

The information I gathered for this weapon is also on “HistoryNet Weapons of World War 1” which states, “The 20th century’s most significant leap in traditional weapons technology was the increased lethality of artillery due to improvements in gun design, range and ammunition‚—a fact that was all too clear in the Great War, when artillery killed more people than any other weapon did. Some giant guns could hurl projectiles so far that crews had to take into account the rotation of the earth when…