Austria's Balkan frontier – the disputed borderland between Europe and the Ottoman Turks – was defended in the 18th century by a unique organization of hardy communities who were granted farmland in return for armed service. These Grenzers, masters of guerrilla warfare, were later incorporated ...
The United States Army fought a series of Indian wars in Minnesota, Dakota, and the Indian Territory. By 1880 the settled area had been pushed into northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, along Dakota rivers, and in the Black Hills region, and was ascending the rivers of Kansas and ...
It was the frontier of Europe in a very real sense. Moving westward, the frontier became more and more American. As successive terminal moraines result from successive glaciations, so each frontier leaves its traces behind it, and when it becomes a settled area the region still partakes of ...
With very good logic, the American cow country may arrogate to itself the title of the real and typical frontier of the world. We call the spirit of the frontier Elizabethan, and so it was. Still, even as the Elizabethan Age was marked by its contact with the Spanish civilization in Eur...
He participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn when he was just 12 years old. In 1886 Black Elk joined Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show and toured eastern cities and Europe. In 1890, he was wounded in the massacre that occurred in Wounded Knee 1890. Living on the reservation, ...
The American Frontier is based on the Monroe Doctrine 1823. It is an out growth of the colonial past and many wars between US, France, Spain, England, Empire of Mexico (a French owned Empire). It certainly does apply to AI in general, because High Tech is mostly US High Tech. We d...
Ronald Reagan and a goal far, far away: Star Wars and the Strategic Defense Initiative in Simi Valley A exhibit that recently closed at the Reagan Library and Museum linked Star Wars, the movie franchise, with “Star Wars,” the nickname associated with the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)...
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In the beginning the frontier was Atlantic coast. The frontier was Europe in some sort of real sense. While moving towards the west the frontier became more American. Form the frontier being advanced it meant a steady movement away from any influence from Europe, a constant growth of independen...
What followed was an influx of pioneers who often had to fight the Natives using guerrilla war tactics they had learned from them earlier on as foes or allies in wars against other colonial powers. They cleared the land and raised settlements that later became villages and towns. (Billington ...