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Mexican WarAuthor: Bonner, John Mexican War1847When President Polk began his Administration, the United StatesGovernment had become involved in two boundary disputes - one relating toOregon, the other to Texas and Mexico. Out of the latter came the MexicanWar, concerning the political causes and mer...

WARFARE Edited By: Robert Guisepi "Every age, however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown." This judgment by the historian Edward Gibbon has been echoed in the 20th century by one of the great generals of World War II, Sir Bernard Law Montgom ...

Ancient Egypt, Menes 2925 B.C. also spelled MENA, MENI, OR MIN, first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single, centralized monarchy. Manetho, a 3rd-century-bc Egyptian historian, called him Menes; the 5th-century-bc Greek historian Herodotus refer...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Battle of the Bulge On Dec. 16, 1944, the Nazis launched a furious counterattack in the Ardennes. While overcast skies grounded Allied planes 24 German divisions drove a bulge 60 miles wide and 45 miles deep into the American lines. Part of this s...

Prussia The International History Project Edited By: Robert Guisepi Prussia was the former kingdom and state of Germany. At the height of its expansion, in the late 19th century, Prussia extended along the coasts of the Baltic and North seas, from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Luxembourg on...

World Civilizations: The Origins Of Civilizations The Agrarian Revolution And The Birth Of Civilization The Neolithic Transition With the development of agriculture, humans began to radically transform the environments in which they lived. A growing portion of humans became sedentary cultivators ...

The American Civil War, John B. Gordon, Chancellorsville Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 In his own words CHAPTER VIII CHANCELLORSVILLE A long convalescence--Enlivened by the author of "Georgia Scenes" --The movement upon Hooker's army at Chancellorsville--Remarkable interview between Lee and Stonewa...

The Legacy Of Asia's First CivilizationsAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.Date: 1992Analysis And ConclusionAnalysis: The Legacy Of Asia's First CivilizationsIn their size, complexity, and longevity, the first civilizations todevelop in South Asia and China match and in some respects surpass theearliest civil...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Author: Robert A. Guisepi Date: 2001 The glory that was Greece," in the words of Edgar Allan Poe, was short-lived and confined to a very small geographic area. Yet it has influenced the growth of Western civilization far out of proportion to its...

MAYA, A History of The Mayans Author: Various Date 2004 The Maya of Mesoamerica, along with the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru, made up the high civilizations of the American Indians at the time of the Spanish conquest. Both the Aztecs and the Incas were late empires (about AD 1300-1533), ca...

Australia And The Islands Of The Sea Author: Larkin, Dunton Introduction Announcement. It is now conceded by all educators that school instruction should be supplemented by reading matter suitable for use by the pupil both in the school and in the home. Whoever looks for such reading, however, must...

1277 Up to the time of Edward I, Wales, which had been partially subdued by Henry I, was a source of continual disturbance to the English kingdom. Long before the accession of Edward, the greater part of Welsh territory was parcelled out into little English principalities. Under John and Henry III,...