the 54th Massachusetts‚ first into battle to try to capture Fort Wagner from the south. Then when they start to charge‚ and the Fort Wagner troops begin to shoot cannons at the 54th. The cannons are so powerful men start dropping like flies. So‚ Robert decides to take his men behind the sand dunes. When Robert sees they have a lot of “cannon power” left at fort Wagner‚ he decides to charge and fight man to man. While doing this‚ he was shot and killed instantly. Then‚ the rest of 54th Mass. charged
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return the mob became angry‚ fearing that they had been detained. A second delegation was sent forth. These soon came out again with the message that the Governor had adamantly refused to surrender. The delegates also had the information that the cannon were unloaded. This piece of news was all that the mob needed to urge them on. "...But the fury of the crowd continued to increase and their blind wrath did not spare de Launay’s escort...Exhausted by his efforts to defend his prisoner...he had to
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great shells shrieking as they pass” and the grapeshot “like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees.” The “scenes at the batteries rise in detail‚” “the pride of the men in their pieces‚” the careful work of the chief gunner who aims his cannon. After the cannon fires‚ the artilleryman “lean[s] aside and look[s] eagerly off to note the effect.” The entire sweep of the battle appears to the insomniac artilleryman. He hears the cries of the infantry units as they charge into battle and sees a colonel
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Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin Joseph Plumb Martin was born in western Massachusetts in 1760. His father was a pastor who often got in trouble for speaking his mind too freely. At the age of seven‚ Joseph was sent to live with his affluent grandfather. When the war started in 1775 Martin chafed to enlist but he was too young. Many of Martin’s friends had enlisted and Martin was quite susceptible to their peer pressure.In June of 1776‚ at the age of 15‚ Martin‚ though
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and crossbows‚ but it couldn’t stop a long gun like a harquebus-a large heavy rifle- or a cannon. At this point‚ both aristocrats and commoners had a certain disdain for
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accusatory and demeaning to those who support the military. I would suggest that if the author is trying to convince others‚ or trying to let others understand her perspective‚ she should not accuse them of contributing to her son turning into a “cannon fodder”. All in all‚ the article was extremely informative and it forced me to evaluate my opinions about the military. It forced me to look deeper and try to find where my opinions about the military root from and they all root from the glorification
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In his book‚ he argues that while cannons had an instant impact on how wars would be fought‚ firearms gradually gained prominence over their classical counterparts. He then concludes with the argument that Europe’s adoption of both of these technologies led to them entering the modern era. Cannons caused an especially significant change in warfare. In terms of siege weapons‚ they created “a corresponding change in
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mostly in long shots‚ showing their relative insignificance in comparison to the protagonist Johnnie. In the next scenes‚ the audience is brought to focus on Johnnie by the camera positioning and blocking as he loads the cannon several times. While Johnnie loads the cannon‚ the use of multiple tracking shots of him allows the effect of natural interaction‚ whereby the audience gets a sense as though they are physically present with the protagonist. The medium close up tracking shots of Johnnie
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that gunpowder was first used for entertainment only‚ with fireworks‚ but the military potential was soon exploited. Indeed the earliest known illustration of a cannon dating from around 1127 was found in China‚ the time of the changeover from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty. This was 150 years earlier than the cannon were developed in the west. The Song people also used gunpowder to make fire lances‚ or flamethrowers‚ and anti-personnel mines (for which we might be less grateful
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shooting a gun‚ Vowell wanted to never touch another gun again. Not long ago‚ Vowell’s father builds a nineteenth-century cannon‚ from scratch. She becomes open-minded to the concept‚ that this is not just a gun to her father. She views the cannon as a “map of all his obsessions”. Vowell explains that if she was ever going to understand her father then shooting the cannon‚ with him‚ was her only chance. Total Word Count: 199 During this experience
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