Tag: world history

Toward The Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: VariousDate: 1992 Edited By: R. A. GuisepiThe Gulf WarIntroductionTime present and time pastAre both present in time future ...Time past and time futureWhat might have been and what has beenPoint to one end, which is always time present.T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norto...

Foundation Of The Order Of Knights Templars Title: Foundation Of The Order Of Knights Templars Author: Addison, Charles G.1118 Among the military orders of past ages, that of the Knights Templars, founded for the defence of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, with its lofty motive, its superb organizat...

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...

Ancient Egypt, Thutmose III Thutmose III was an Egyptian king of the 18th dynasty (reigned 1479-26 BC),and is often regarded as the greatest of the rulers of ancient Egypt. Thutmose III was a skilled warrior who brought the Egyptian empire to the zenith of its power by conquering all of Syria, cros...

The American Civil War: Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Ambrose Everett Burnside, though often criticized for his tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, faced unique challenges and exhibited a mix of success and failure throughout his military career. Nota...

Guadalcanal Guadalcanal (August 1942-February 1943), was a series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. Japanese troops had landed on Guadalcanal on July 6, 1942, and had begun con...

Sam Watkins Confederate soldier who wrote of his experiences in the American Civil War. The following is an excerpt from 'Company Aytch' A private soldier is but an automaton, a machine that works by the command of a good, bad, or indifferent engineer, and is presumed to know nothing of all these gr...

History of Maps The oldest surviving maps are maps from Mesopotamia made on clay tablets and maps from ancient Mediterranean cultures made on mosaic tile. The writings of ancient Greece and Rome refer to other maps, but these were drawn on perishable parchment or paper, and the originals have disapp...

Russia And Japan - Industrialization Outside The WestAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.; Adas, Michael;Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992Russia's Reforms And Industrial AdvanceNeither Russia nor Japan generated significant changes during the firsthalf of the 19th century. Both countries were bent on maintaining t...

Founding Of The House Of Hapsburg Author: Coxe, William Founding Of The House Of Hapsburg1273 The house of Hapsburg - also called the house of Austria - owes its origin and firm establishment to the most celebrated of the Hapsburgs, a German princely family who derived their name from Hapsburg cast...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henr Part III The peace of Constance presented a noble opportunity to the Lombards ofestablishing a permanent federal union of small republics; a form ofgovernment congenial from the earliest ages to Italy, and that, perhaps, underwhich she is again destined one...

Persia Darius I Author: Grote, George Darius I, called the Great, tells the story of the overthrow of Bardiya and of the first year of his own rule in detail in his famous royal inscription cut on a rock face at the base of Bisitun mountain, a few miles east of modern Kermanshah. Six leading Achaeme...