BATTLE OF MEIKTILA INTRODUCTION 1. Gentlemen‚ I welcome you all in today ’s study period on "Battle of Meiktila" in the context of Burma Campaign. The significance of Burma Campaign in the course of world war II was of equal importance from both Allied and Axis points of view as that of other theatres of war. Burma was turned into the theatre of war during the third year of the world war II. Two major regional powers‚ one Asian ie Japan and another European ie Great Britain fought this
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Royal Flying Corps Canada In 1914‚ taking off and landing a plane successfully was a great achievement. During the war around 22‚000 Canadians served in the British flying services as pilots and over 1‚600 died. At the beginning of the war there was only a few hundred aircrafts and airships and training was only available in Britain. Once more people were interested in becoming pilots many training schools started to be created in Canada. These training schools were part of an organization created
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The battle of Uhud was a reprisal against the Muslims following the battle of Badr. Some of the leading members of Quraysh such as Abu Jahl‚ Utbah‚ Shaiba‚ Walid‚ Umayya bin Khalaf‚ and Hanzala bin Abu Sufyan‚ had been killed in the battle of Badr. After the death of Abu Jahl‚ leadership of the Makkans had passed on to his compeer‚ Abu Sufyan‚ who was the chief of the clan of Banu Umayya. There was profound sorrow in Makkah at the loss of so many chiefs but Abu Sufyan had forbidden the bereaved
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Northern Virginia‚ General Meade headed the Union’s Army of the Potomac. Both sides saw the need to win that one‚ crucial victory to turn the tide completely in their favor. They would get their chances at a small town in Pennsylvania. The battle was dubbed the Battle of Gettysburg for the town of Gettysburg‚ PA. By June of 1863 General Lee asked President Davis to march his army north out of VA. Davis granted Lee permission. Lee‚ with 75‚000 troops‚ made his way north‚ just west of the Blue Ridge
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The reason that the English and the Australians attacked Turkey was quiet simple‚ Russia was being attacked by Germany and was struggling to maintain defences‚ at this same time Turkey was also supporting Germany and invading Russia. As a result Russia requested assistance from its British alliances. The British also felt that Turkey would be a great trading port‚ as it allows great access to the Black Sea. So as a result the British bombarded the Turkish shore batteries to test their range of weaponry
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impact on stakeholders of the privatisation and flotation of the Royal Mail Established in 1516‚ Royal Mail is a postal service business‚ based in London‚ UK. Royal Mail had always been a public service for most of its history‚ considered to be a government department. However‚ with the rise of E-mail and the online social networks‚ there has been a torrential fall in the volume of letters‚ which was once the major business of Royal Mail. Faced with great financial hardship‚ Richard Hooper‚ the former
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The main purpose of the film‚ The Battle of Algiers is to show in detail what happened in battle between the French and the Algerians. This film expresses the Algerians rights‚ for example‚ the right to be free in their own country. The Battle of Algiers was specially directed using four tactics to grasp the reality of an historical event. The director films it in black and white‚ doesn’t use unrealistic effects‚ directs the camera to focus on facial expressions and didn’t use well-known actors
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Battle Royale Throughout the novel Battle Royale‚ by Koushun Takami‚ the reader is introduced to a long list of students from the school. Each time one of these characters is revealed the author tells you a little background information on them and gives you a look at who they are. As the story continues the author tells of how the East Asia Empire has instituted a government mandate that makes each child‚ when they turn fifteen‚ eligible to be drafted into The Program. The Program is a government
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The Battle of Megiddo is the first battle that was recorded in detail and for posterity. Pharaoh Thutmose III’s military scribe inscribed it in hieroglyphs at Thutmose’s temple at Karnak‚ Thebes (now Luxor). Not only is this the first extant‚ detailed battle description‚ but it is the first written reference to the religiously important Megiddo: Megiddo is also known as Armageddon. Historically‚ Megiddo was an important city because it overlooked the route from Egypt through Syria to Mesopotamia
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Battle of the Ideas: A review of economic concepts ECON-101 Amara Henderson-Graham Grandview University Professor David W. Hannum October 9th‚ 2012 Commanding Heights: Battle of Ideas The neoclassical counterrevolution was a response to the interventionist dependence revolution of the 1970’s which has diagnosed the problem of underdevelopment to be due to the predatory behavior of the developed world. The neoliberal school of thought redefined underdevelopment instead to
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