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The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke ...

Why Study History Through Primary Sources [Adapted from James Harvey Robinson, "The Historical point of View", in Readings in European History, Vol I, (Boston: Ginn, 1904), 1-13 ] The Sources of History It is clear that all our information in regard to past events and conditions must be derived fro...

Ancient Carthage Author: Rollin, Charles Part Two The Carthaginians were not discouraged by their late disaster, but continued their enterprises on Sicily. Mago, their general, and one of the suffetes, lost a great battle, in which he was slain. The Carthaginian chiefs demanded a peace, which was gr ...

LEE, Robert E. (1807-70). The Confederacy's greatest soldier, Robert E. Lee, was descended from an old and honored family. Several of Lee's forebears had played distinguished roles in Virginia's history. His father was the Revolutionary War hero Light-Horse Harry Lee, a friend of George Washington. ...

Japanese Repel The TartarsAuthor: Parker, Edward HarperJapanese Repel The Tartars1281Kublai Khan, the first of the Mongol emperors who reigned at Peking, andKameyama, the ninetieth emperor - as reputed - of Japan, are supposed to havecome to their respective thrones in the same year, 1260. At this p...

A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Sources Of Vitality In The Postclassical West Why did western Europe begin to demonstrate new vigor around A.D. 1000 - forming new schools and a more elaborate culture; expanding trade and towns, while loosening the most res...

The American Civil War, Clara Barton Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Twenty years before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton came to the aid of soldiers fighting in the Civil War. At the war's outbreak, Barton worked as a U.S. Patent Office clerk and collected provisions and medical supplie...

Dutch Settlement Of New YorkAuthor: Valentine, David T.Dutch Settlement Of New York1614Greater fame ordinarily attaches to the discovery of some vast region ofthe earth than to the finding or exploring of a limited coast, district, orriver-course. There are, however, some instances in which geograph...

Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte With A Sketch Of Josephine Book: Life Of Napoleon Author: Tarbell, Ida Chapter I Napoleon's Youth And Early Surroundings - His School Days At Brienne "If I were not convinced that his family is as old and as good as my own," said the Emperor of Austria when he married Ma...

Attila FLAGELLUM DEI (LATIN: SCOURGE OF GOD), king of the Huns from 434 to 453 (ruling jointly with his elder brother Bleda until 445). He was one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers who assailed the Roman Empire, invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then Gaul and Italy. In lege...

Corporal Roland C. Holder US55239525 H & S Company, 2nd Engineer Battalion 2nd Division "Every once in a while, I will say a prayer for all those lives that were lost in The Korean War. May God bless them.""There was a big battle going on not too far from where we were because they were hauling ...

The Great DepressionThe story of the World Wide Great Depression and how it effected the 20th Century The Twentieth Century In World History Book: One-Half Century Of Crisis, 1914-1945 Author: Adas, Michael Date: 1992 The Great Depression The next step in a mounting spiral of international crisis ...