the union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army. Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of the eastern...
Winfield Scott was an American army officer who held the rank of general in three wars and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852. He was the foremost American military figure between the Revolution and the Civil War. Scott was commiss
aninsurrectionthat may be seen as a continuation of thePhilippine Revolutionagainst Spanish rule. It began after the United States assumedsovereigntyof thePhilippinesfollowing the defeat of Spain in theSpanish-American War. Although an end to the insurrection was declared in 1902, sporadic fighting con...
After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ). A. Realism B. Reason and Revolution C. Romanticism D. Modernism ...
After the collapse of the MTLD, the veteran nationalist Messali Hadj formed the leftist Mouvement National Algérien (MNA), which advocated a policy of violent revolution and total independence similar to that of the FLN, but aimed to compete with that organisation. The Armée de Libération Nati...
During the American War of Independence(1775-1783) and in the first days after the founding of the nation, there was a dispute between the northern and southern states as to where the capital of the new country should be located. For mostof the Revolutionary War period, the rebels'capital ...
18.It may be hard to believe,but the American Revolution(革命)-the war that freed the American states from British control-began over a cup of tea.Tea was not the only thing that caused the war,of course,but it played a very big part.The...
In September 1894, only six weeks after war was declared, the Japanese not only captured Pyongyang but crushed the Chinese northern fleet at sea. The Qing government was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Shimonoseki, under which the Chinese were made to pay the Japanese 200 million ...
In 1897, over thirty years after the end of the American Civil War, a very special monument to that war was erected opposite the Statehouse in Boston. Designed by the Irishborn sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, it depicted in profile the figure of Robert Gould Shaw, the twenty-five-year-old...
After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, supporting Laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos; French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950; M24 Chaffee American light tank used by the French in Vietnam; Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954; A Grumman F6F-5...