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World War One, Letter from Edward Luckert Monday - July 22 - 18Dearest: -It does seem as if we are never going to get any rest I know, but still I guess there's a remote chance sometime in the near future.If they wouldn't always give us the hardest work it would be a cinch, but they have never yet f...

World War One, The Submarine By the eve of World War I all of the major navies included submarines in their fleets, but these craft were relatively small, were considered of questionable military value, and generally were intended for coastal operations. The most significant exception to the concept...

Ancient Egypt, Ahmose EGYPT'S HISTORY Robert Guisepi, 1984 The Valley of the Nile (reigned c. 1539-14 BC), founder of the 18th dynasty, who completed his brother's expulsion of the Hyksos (Asiatic rulers of Egypt), invaded Palestine, and re-exerted Egypt's hegemony over Nubia, to the south.Resumi...

The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors To Empire BuildersAuthor: Robert GuisepiDate: 1992 Part Three Ottoman Empire, Islamic Heartlands, And Qing ChinaAuthor: Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992Between The Western Powers: The Struggle Of The Ottoman Empire For SurvivalBy the early 18th century, the days of ...

History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire State Of Italy Under The Lombards. Author: Gibbon, Edward Date: 1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised) Part III. So rapid was the influence of climate and example, that the Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed with curiosity and affright the portr...

The Hurrians The Rise of the Hurrians Robert Antonio The Hurrians enter the orbit of ancient Middle Eastern civilization toward the end of the 3rd millennium BC. They arrived in Mesopotamia from the north or the east, but it is not known how long they had lived in the peripheral regions. There is a...

The Akkadians THE LEGEND OF SARGON Portions of this work contributed by Robert A. Guisepi and F. Roy Williams, University of California [Ancient Near Eastern Texts 119] Sargon, the mighty king, king of Agade, am I.MY mother was a changeling1, my father I knew not.The brother(s) of my father loved th...

A History of Ancient Greece Ancient History Sourcebook:Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE):The Spartan War Machine, c. 375 BCE In the first instance, the ephors announce in proclamation the limit of age to which the service applies for cavalry and heavy infantry; and, in the next place, for the various arti...

Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 BC), Roman general and statesman, who laid the foundations of the Roman imperial system. Caesar(died 44 B.C.E.) By Plutarch Written 75 A.C.E. After Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Caesar put away his wife Cornelia, daughter of Cinna, the late sole ruler of ...

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard(1818-1893) The services of "The Hero of Fort Sumter," Pierre G.T. Beauregard, were not utilized to their fullest due to bad blood between the Confederate general and Jefferson Davis. The native Louisianan had graduated second in the 1838 class at West Point. There h...

The Middle Ages Date: 1992 Government In Germany And Italy When the Carolingian kingdom of the East Franks proved incapable of coping with the attacks of Magyar horsemen in the late ninth and early tenth centuries, the task was taken over by the tribal leaders (or dukes) of the Saxons, Bavarians, ...

Discovery Of NeptuneAuthor: Lodge, Sir OliverDiscovery Of Neptune1846Among modern astronomical discoveries none has been regarded as moreimportant than that of Neptune, the outermost known planet of the solarsystem. It was a rich reward to the watchers of the sky when this new planetswam into their ...