settle the land and claim it as their own. One group in particular was the Spanish. They built missions in California to make their presence in the area known and to convert the Native Americans into Christianity. They served as religious and military outposts. These missions were established to convert Native American into Christianity. Obviously not all people wanted this‚ and they were treated harshly. Although‚ others jumped right into it and began the praise and worship rituals like they had been
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It is really fascinating to watch the movie 300‚ where King Leonidas and his army of 30 brave Spartans battled the Persian King Xerxes and his army of 300‚000. This would come as a surprise to all that a battle of such a magnitude had also occurred in our country however not known to most of us. Known as the Battle of Saragarhi‚ it really is moment of pride for India but sadly this tale of heroic action and sacrifice is hardly recorded in the books of Indian History as it was fought on the behalf
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was the main pretext for war‚ but other issues played a role. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising‚ when India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. India initiated a Forward Policyin which it placed outposts along the border‚ including several north of the McMahon Line‚ the eastern portion of a Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1959. Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3‚225-kilometer-long Himalayan
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about the treatment they had received. They hated Alexander’s father. When Alexander became king‚ even though Alexander allowed the Greeks to manage their own city-states‚ they hated him as well. They fought him at every turn. They lost‚ but the outposts and colonies especially put up quite a battle. The very people whose culture he loved were Alexander’s worst enemies. Except for the Greek colonies‚ Alexander conquered other cultures in the Mediterranean rather easily‚ including Egypt. Everywhere
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emotionally during the book. Alexander’s grandmother is on assignment to find "The Beast"‚ a yeti-like monster with a stench so bad that it has been known to paralyze or even kill those who smell it. Traveling by boat to reach the remote jungle outpost where they will meet the rest of their group‚ Alex begins to see the larger world around him‚ far from his suburban home. Although still feeling very sorry for himself‚ and absolutely refusing to eat the exotic dishes (monkey‚ tapir‚ cassava) presented
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In 1760‚ with Detroit being their last outpost‚ the French surrendered Fort Pontchartrain‚ by then called Fort Detroit‚ to the British—and in 1796‚ the British gave Fort Detroit to the United States. Detroit‚ in retrospect‚ was much like Alaska—nobody really knew what they had. In 1802‚ Detroit officially became a town—and all was well until the first hint of tragedy struck in 1805. At that point in her young history‚ Detroit was a thriving little burg with quaint shops‚ storybook bungalows‚ dirt
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David Kirke and his brothers invaded Quebec in 1628‚ Champlain returned to France with 60 of his settlers. When the French returned to Quebec in 1632‚ they built a city based on the framework of a traditional french city‚ And Quebec remained an outpost until well into the 1650s. Quebec city was designed so that the inhabitants of better quality lived in the upper city‚ and the inhabitants of
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The relationship between the Americans and the Native Americans had been tumultuous for some time. The Americans insisted on recklessly encroaching on Indian land and the Indians were forced to defend it. The Rocky Mountain Fur Company’s fur traders were licensed to trade only to do trade with the Indians‚ but they set out to trap and hunt instead. What they didn’t realize was that two Indians had been killed just a few weeks prior in a skirmish with the Missouri Fur Company and the situation in
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of the most famous rivers in the world flows through Billings‚ but it still does not have any beaches. Like Jeddah‚ Billings also has a nickname‚ “the Magic City.” Billings earned this name from how fast Billings grew into a town from a Railroad Outpost. In Jeddah the winters are cold‚ but the winters in Billings are much colder and full of snow. I enjoy learning the American culture and Billings has a lot of friendly people‚ but because I do not know many people it is hard for me
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countries enrolled their children in the school‚ which also served as a recruiting center for jihadis to fight the Nigerian State. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma‚ Yobe State‚ where it set up a base called "Afghanistan"‚ used to attack nearby police outposts‚ killing police officers. Yusuf is hostile to democracy and the secular education system‚ vowing that "this war that is yet to start would continue for long" if the political and educational system was not changed. The group became popular following
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