By the time the class was done, the prevailing opinion seemed to be it was a false story, it couldn’t be true, and the photos that were on the front page to verify the story must have been trick photography (this was long before photoshop). When my father came home from work, the...
Pontiac’s War or Pontiac’s Rebellion was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region ...
“The early sun god was named Horus. When Ra took over the title of sun god, he was also known as “Ra-Horakhty or Ra, who is Horus of the 2 horizons.” It was in a battle with Set that Horus lost the use of one eye. Thoth restored the eye, and this was when Horus was a...
Mexico ceded California to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican-American War, and it was officially annexed as a free, non-slave state in the Compromise of 1850. , During theCalifornia Gold Rush from 1848 to 1858, about 300,000 people flocked to the Western state and its mines. ...
With the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, several hundred members formed what became known as the Mormon Battalion, which marched from Kansas to San Diego from 1846 to 1847, forging a wagon route across the deep Southwest., They moved to Mexico until the war’s end, returnin...
which started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. While well known, Geronimo was not a chief among the Chiricahua or the Bedonkohe band. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare he frequently led large numbers of...
When I asked him why he selected this watering hole – other than it was close to his home in Sellwood – he responded: “Jake’s was my choice because of Cassie, the weekday bartender who I had observed for over a year dealing with the various homeless people of the neighborhood who...
The concept of Manifest Destiny was popularized during this time.[33] The 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain led to U.S. control of the present-day American Northwest. The U.S. victory in the Mexican-American War resulted in the 1848 ces- sion of California and much of the present-day ...
Texas attempted several times to negotiate annexation to the United States and was finally admitted in 1845, which sparked the Mexican-American War in 1846. Mexico ultimately ceded its claim over Texas in 1848, drawing the border at the Rio Grande., Texas followed other Southern ...
North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a single territory, was one of the original 13 colonies and became the 12th state in 1789. It sent the most troops to fight in the Civil War as part of the Confederacy before it was readmitted into the Union in...