The Commonwealth of the Philippines was invaded by the Empire of Japan in December 1941 shortly after Japan’s declaration of war upon the United States of America‚ which controlled the Philippines at the time and possessed important military bases there. The combined American-Filipino army was defeated by April 1942‚ but guerrilla resistance against the Japanese continued throughout the war. Uncaptured Filipino army units‚ a communist insurgency and supporting American agents all played a role in
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D-Day Introduction “They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt. D-Day required two years of planning‚ 156‚000 Allied troops‚ 13‚000 paratroopers‚ 50‚000 vehicles‚ 11‚000 planes‚ and 5‚000 ships. In other words‚ it was one of the largest amphibious battles ever conducted in the history of war and its outcome affected the entire world. D-Day‚ a momentous turning point during World War II that sparked hope for the
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A Two-front war is classified as a war fought in separate locations at the same general time‚ and World War I was classified as just that. The startup of the Two-front war was instigated when Gavrilo Princip‚ a member of a terrorist group aimed at Serbian liberation called the Black Hand‚ shot and killed Austria’s Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia. The Austrian-Hungarian government did not know if the Bosnian government had been directly linked in the assassination and had used the death of Franz
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A Column of British Soldiers marched out on the morning of April 19‚ 1775 toward the town of Lexington‚ Massachusetts. A small band of seventy-seven colonial militiamen stood their way. The shot heard around the world occurred in this time period as the outnumbered Americans retreated‚ thus starting the American War of Independence. Six years later‚ on October 19‚ 1781‚ Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown‚ Virginia to the joint forces of General George Washington and French General
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even an astonishing amount of firearms‚ such as pistols‚ and repeating weapons (Bilby). Cannons were a very important factor during the Civil War. The Union and Confederate forces both used cannons in this war. These consisted of the 12-pound Howitzer‚ the 10-pound rifle‚ and the 3-inch Ordnance rifle (Bilby). Union and Confederate forces used
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The presence of sweet water beneath the briny sea is thought by philologists to account for the name Bahrain itself—an Arabic word meaning "two seas‚" and referring to the ancient assumption that there was another sea beneath the sea bed (Bradley‚ 1964). The Land of Two Seas‚ located off the eastern coastline of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. The small group of 33 islands‚ the largest being Bahrain. Bahrain dates all the way back to the Roman times‚ long ruled by Arabs. During the period of
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The Mexican War marked a major turning point for the fledgling American nation and its military – not only did it redefine the Southern border with Mexico‚ but it demonstrated the capabilities of the U.S. Army during an offensive engagement following a prolonged period of peace. The Mexican War is not a commonly cited conflict in U.S. history‚ but the lessons learned from it are relevant even today‚ as it combined conventional warfare with the struggle of being a small‚ occupying force in both rural
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Abraham Lincoln ’s Emancipation Proclamation Susan Harrison History 221 Professor Taylor February 10‚ 2013 Until Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on 22 September 1862‚ the President’s enunciation of Civil War aims centered squarely upon the restoration of the Union‚ and purposefully omitted the inclusion of the abolition of slavery. Dismantling the institution of slavery was not his ultimate objective‚ and
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Field Artillery and The Battle of Cantigny Field Artillery has evolved a vast degree with beginning uses of gunpowder‚ wooden cannons and iron cannon balls. Years later there are complex fuses‚ computerized cannons and precision guided munitions. Many significant wars and battles occurred throughout our Nation’s military existence. Without artillery shaping the battlefield‚ it is possible the outcomes written in history books would not be the same. The Battle of Cantigny‚ France was one of the
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Nova Scotia Museum 1747 Summer Street info Halifax‚ Nova Scotia‚ Canada B3H 3A6 William Hall‚ V C first Black person‚ the first Nova Scotian and one of the first Canadians to receive the Empire’s highest award for bravery‚ the Victoria Cross. The son of former American slaves‚ Hall was born in 1827 at Horton‚ Nova Scotia‚ where he also attended school. He grew up during the age of wooden ships‚ when many boys dreamed of travelling the world in sailing vessels. As a young man‚ Hall worked in
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