Siege of Yorktown

The Third Crusade was recognized as one of the most belligerent, unsettled disputes in the books of history. This religious movement transpired in the Middle East, when the Muslims reclaimed the Holy Land, compelling the Christians to fight back. Not many good things happened in this movement, since many people had died from fighting each other. King Richard I was known as the chief leader of the Christians, while Saladin was perceived as the sultan of the Muslim people. These men were known as…

In this paper I will tell of the Third Crusade,the battles,the armies,the leaders and finally the outcome of this battle for the Holy Land.The Third Crusade occurred in the year of 1189 and lasted for a difficult three years.(Wiki) The Third crusade was caused by the capture of Jerusalem in 1187 by Saladin who was muslim.(A&E)The spreading of word that the Holy City had be captured by muslims spread like wildfire, soon the people would shout and scream for war,they wanted another crusade and…

Former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once said “History shows that there are no invincible armies.” In the 18th century, however, the British rule that spanned nearly a quarter of the Earth’s land, and that was comprised of the largest navy and strongest army at the time would have begged to differ. At the time, it seemed that the British army was destined to control the entire planet. About 5,600 kilometers away, a little colony of The British Empire had enough. Outrageous taxes without any say…

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 19, 1995. This terrorist attack was the worst terrorist attack to happen before 9/11. The truck was packed with 4,800-pounds of explosives which consisted of diesel-fuel and fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The bomb was detonated on April 19, 1995 just outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City shortly after 9am (Nacos, 2016). This catastrophic blast killed one hundred sixty-eight people and injured hundreds more (Nacos,…

About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts…

April 19 has become an infamous day for our Nation. It marks the date in which the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in 1993. Where 80 Americans including 24 children were killed in a fire that was set to straw and gasoline while the FBI raided their compound (PBS). The leader there was David Koresh who led his people in a shootout following with a mass suicide against the government raid. This in turn would be the reason for what led to the…

Cults In the past there have been clubs, religions, and social groups, but there is a different kind of organization that doesn’t fit in within these groups. This organization is known as Cults. Cults are worship groups following “godly” things of their religious beliefs regarded by others as weird or sinister. Throughout history there have been different types of cults, some with good intention and some with bad intentions. Although the cults with “good intentions” followed or used part of the…

On the morning of April 19, 1995 there was a blast that would change the United States forever. A man by the name of Timothy Mcveigh drove a Ryder moving truck up to the Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and detonated a bomb from inside the truck.He was reasonable for killing nearly One hundred- seventy people and injuring over five- hundred more people. Those nearly one hundred seventy people included nineteen children that were killed in a day care on the second floor.…

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 18, 1995, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing, it happened at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. In this attack there was a total of 168 deaths, 19 were children that were in the day-care center that the building had, and more than 500 people were injured. The bomb was made with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. This was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001. When the bombing…

The explosion was set in Texas City, Texas. It was on the southwestern shore of Galveston Bay. Seven miles from Galveston and 11 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston County. This eventful day had two explosion from two ships, S.S. Grandcamp and S.S. High Flyer. The S.S. Grandcamp was a 437 foot long Liberty ship. This ship has the cargo of peanuts, tobacco, twine, and bunker oil. The Grandcamp arrived from Houston, Texas where the port authority did not permit the loading of…