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    technology progressing has been wars. From the days of fighting in Early Times where battles were fought with masses of men taking over territories to today where a button can be pushed from 35‚000 feet in the air and drop a bomb to destroy a city‚ wars have had an impact on history and technology as a whole. There have been many changes to the way a military member viewed society in his ever-changing role any many different technologies used to be successful in winning wars and the effect the military

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    republicans during the outset of civil war‚ the first reason is due to the nationalist being sympathize and supported by Portuguese dictator Antonio de Olivier a Salazar. This played a great role as Spain is bordered to Portugal and by having its leader to side with the nationalist acts as great assets in winning the civil war. The nationalist was also supported by Europe’s growing fascist powers‚ Hitler’s and Mussolini‚ both sees benefits of assisting the nationalist in the Spanish civil war. This means

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    Chamberlain‚ the Hero of the Civil War We all have certain people that we look up to‚ whether it be a friend‚ family member‚ celebrity‚ or so on‚ they impact our life. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain‚ the oldest of five ad part of the family with a spectacular history of bravery. All the men before him‚ in his family‚ that lived in America‚ served for their country and there’s no doubt that this strongly influenced Chamberlain growing up. Chamberlain was a college professor‚ but decided to leave his

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    Medicine in Civil War “And I will use regiments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgment‚ but from (what is) to their harm or injustice I will keep (them)” The Hippocratic oath is an ancient greek document that is simply entitled “Oath.” Its age is debated; 400 BC is a reasonable estimate for when it was written. We do not know its stature in its own time; how widely or how long it was used. The oath is neither a sacred scripture nor a legal code. Through the

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    Walking through mud up to your waist was a recurring experience during the American Civil War. Well-known by Americans‚ the Civil War was a battle fought from 1861 to 1865 by the Union and the Confederacy. Weather had numerous impacts on the Civil War. Not only did it affect the lives of the soldiers‚ the constant change in weather could determine the outcome of battles. The ever-changing weather made living conditions extremely difficult for soldiers of both sides. Rain‚ snow‚ and the scorching

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    War prisons run by the Union were inhuman Civil War prison camps were horrible places for both north and south soldiers. Camps ran by the Union were also very inhuman. Most camps were overcrowded with little to no shelter. This proved to be an environment for diseases that ran rampant through the stockades and was responsible for the majority of the deaths. ‘ During about mid war the North and South took on more and more soldiers. The camps were only set up to hold so many people but they just

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    American Civil War The American Civil War started in April 12‚ 1861. During this time artillery pieces were rapidly developed from smooth bores to bores with rifling. Rifling was first invented in the late 1850s The United States Army had started experimenting and implementing bore rifling at the start of the American Civil War. It was believed that two-thirds of the confederate armies light howitzers where taken from the union forces. Artillery was rapidly shifting its capabilities of being able

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    First‚ the Civil War improved anesthesia was by lowering the dosage used for each patient. Anesthesia was used in high quantities of a chemical called chloroform. Before the war began‚ surgeons used to obtain a specific dosage of chloroform‚ soak a cloth into it‚ and then proceed to use the saturated cloth to cover the patient’s mouth and nose. This would then make the patient fall into unconsciousness during the time the surgeon performed on the invalid. However‚ at the start of the Civil War‚ doctors

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    The Effects of and Views on the Civil War in Canada Throughout most traditional history classes‚ we are given only the perspective of people directly involved in events or of people that were in the near region where the events occur. This often narrows our insight‚ giving us an allusion that said events only affected one region unless otherwise said so which gives us a slight bit of outsight. By opening our views‚ we must explore not only one event in particular but all reaches of these events

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    The study of secondary sources challenges a person’s understanding of history because the primary source can have a whole different point of view on things than the secondary or they can contradict each other in many different ways. During the civil war it used up lot of the government’s resources and because of it the Native Americans weren’t paid how the treaty said they were going to because of this there were a lot of Native Americans to fight with the south. The government did not have the resources

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