Tag: world history

Conspiracy Of Pontiac Author: Randall, E. O. Conspiracy Of Pontiac 1763With the fall of Quebec and De Vaudreuil's capitulation of Montreal, Canada passed from the dominion of France to Britain, and for a time came under military rule. In the West, around the shores of the Great Lakes and the country...

The American Civil War, Civil War BattlesEdited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Fort Sumter, April 12-14, 1861 Casualties = 0 On April 10, 1861, Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter i...

The First Plantation ColonyEarly Latin AmericaAuthor: Stearns, PeterDate: 1999The search for gold and silver was a constant theme in overseasexpansion, but there were other European demands the New World could alsosatisfy, which contributed to its growing involvement in the Western-dominatedworld ec...

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...

Absolutism As A System L'Etat, C'Est Moi Date: 1998 Absolutism As A System Unlimited royal authority, as advocated by Bossuet and Hobbes, was the main characteristic of absolutism. It was demonstrated most obviously in political organization but also served to integrate into government most econom...

Title: The State Book: The Functions Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow The Functions Of Government 1473. What are the Functions of Government? - The question has its own difficulties and complexities: it cannot be answered out of hand and by the list, as the physiologist might answer the ques...

The Sumerian king list: translation (In the following translation, mss. are referred to by the sigla used by Vincente 1995; from those listed there, mss. Fi, Go, P6, and WB 62 were not used; if not specified by a note, numerical data come from ms. WB.) After the kingship descended from heaven, the k...

Crassus by Plutarch Marcus Crassus, whose father had borne the office of a censor, andreceived the honor of a triumph, was educated in a little housetogether with his two brothers, who both married in their parents'lifetime; they kept but one table amongst them; all which,perhaps, was not the le ...

Kush And The Eastern Mediterranean The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Toward the end of the early civilization period, a number of partially separate civilization centers sprang up on the fringes of the civilized world in Africa and the Middle East, exte...

Although the above graph shows that German losses during this month were very high, they appear even worse when we take the total German strength and convert the above figures into percentages. The single engined Bf109 figures represent 24% of the total fighter strength while the bombers represent a...

Leif Ericson Discovers America Saga Of Eric The Red, c. 1000 Besides the Northmen or Norsemen, those ancient Scandinavians celebrated in history for their adventurous exploits at sea, the Chinese and the Welsh have laid claim to the discovery of North America at periods much earlier than that of Co...

Ancient Egypt: Apopis Egypt's HistoryRobert Guisepi, 1984 The Valley of the Nile Apopis was the last great Hyksos king of Egypt (reigned c. 1585-1542 BC). Initially, he controlled most of Egypt but was gradually driven back northward to the vicinity of his capital in the Nile River delta due to succ...