Peninsula Campaign

black jester for Catherine of Austria’s court, and he was considered by the queen as one of the most entertaining men to ever be present at her court. He was even appointed gentleman of the queen’s household, and was part of successful military campaigns for the royal family. Nevertheless, Panasco was, as T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe describe in ‘Black Africans in Renaissance Europe’, “despite these honors, [...] stigmatized by his color and discriminated against by his white peers”. (p.…

believed the Soviet Union, backing the North, was trying to take over the Korean peninsula. The Cold War between the Soviets and the US…

Leprosy, now commonly known as Hansen disease is one of the world’s oldest and most feared maladies disease. In over a thousand years the illness has managed to afflict millions of people all around the world. For centuries throughout many cultures and religions the disease was seen as a punishment from Gods or Goodness and divinely inspired and thought to be highly contagious. During the Middle Ages there was widespread beliefs about the causation of leprosy. As a result individuals who had…

The term Ottoman is a dynastic designation which is extracted from Osman I (Arabic: ʿUthmān), who was the nomadic Turkmen leader who instituted both the dynasty and the empire about 1300. Ottoman empire dates back to 15th and 16th centuries, it was established by Turkish Tribes in Anatolia (Asia Minor). It grew as one of the most influential states in the world. The period of Ottoman remained for 600 years and it ended in 1922, when it was substituted by the Turkish Republic and several other…

killed (Apocalypse: World War II). Even though the American aircraft carriers had not been destroyed, Japan decided to intensify its push for expansion in the South Pacific. On the same day, the Japanese bomb British Hong Kong, bases on the Bataan Peninsula, and multiple other allied bases in the Philippines. This was all done according to plan in their push for natural resources. Complete chaos ensues across the South Pacific, and Hong Kong falls to Japan in just a few days. This gives the…

within 100 countries, increasing the consortium’s operational footprint from the Middle East to the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Albania, Uganda, etc. In 2001, shortly after the United States began a military campaign targeting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Usama bin Laden relocates to Pakistan, where he is eventually killed by US forces on May 01, 2011 in the town of Abbottabad. Undeterred by the death of bin Laden, Al Qaeda formally announced his succession…

From a small city-state to a far-reaching civilization that dominated the vast region of the Mediterranean, Rome’s history includes many endeavors and triumphs in its rise, thrive, and fall throughout its two and a half millennia (2500 years). Rome’s history dawns in the 8th century BC, where the future empire begins as a small Latin village founded by Italic tribes. Those Italic tribes also held other nearby city-states in Central Italy. Rome was a state in which the people held its supreme…

Simon Bolivar a very well educated man was hired as a military leader in New Granada and liberated New Granada from Spanish control. After Simon Bolivar’s success in New Granada, Simon Bolivar led military campaigns of freeing Ecuador and Venezuela from Spanish control and was successful. Venezuela remained a part of Gran Colombia until the mid 1800s when another rebellion led by José Antonio Páez allowed the birth of a republic of Venezuela. With a new republic…

After the end of World War II, the 38th parallel latitude line became the division in Korea, splitting the tiny, East Asian peninsula into what we know today as North Korea and South Korea (Pierpaoli, Paul Jr., 1). In 1948, the Republic of Korea was established in South Korea, while in North Korea, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea took hold. The Soviet Union occupied the Northern half of Korea, and the United States occupied the Southern half. The government 's’ contrasting aspirations…

of defense for the Atlantic Wall was influenced by Rommel’s campaign against the British in North Africa, which “made the maximum possible use of mines in constructing their new line” for the defense of Tobruk, which cost the Afrika Korps many men but taught Rommel “the value of the British large–scale mining.” The extensive…