Tag: world history

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...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Antipapal Movement: Arnold Of Brescia Author: Neander, Johann A. W. St. Bernard And The Second Crusade, A.D. 1145-1155 During the first half of the twelfth century - a period marked by conflicting spiritual tendencies - in Italy began a work of ...

Council Of Trent And The Counter-ReformationAuthor: Ward, Adolphus W.1545 An important phase of history in the sixteenth century is summarized byMacaulay when he says that "the Church of Rome, having lost a large part ofEurope, not only ceased to lose, but actually regained nearly half of what sheha...

Terrorism In Early AmericaThe U.S. Wages War Against The BarbaryStates To End International Blackmail and Terrorism By Thomas JewettThe events of September 11, 2001 shocked the United States out of its complacency concerning its invulnerability. Even though the U.S. has the most powerful military ma...

The Grandeur That Was RomePage Two Date: 2002The Early Republic, 509-133 B.C.: Foreign AffairsThe growth of Rome from a small city-state to the dominant power in theMediterranean world in less than 400 years (509-133 B.C.) is a remarkablesuccess story. Roman expansion was not deliberately planned; r...

1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.. Maps of Pearl Harbor The United States government first obtained exclusive use of ...

Boer WarBook: By A. Conan DoyleAuthor: Doyle, A. Conan1900In more than one respect the war in South Africa was a surprise to theworld. It was surprising to see two little republics present a defiantultimatum to a great empire. It was surprising with what skill and deadlyeffect the few fought against...

The Huns Huns, nomadic Asian people, probably of Turkish, Tataric, or Ugrian origins, who spread from the Caspian steppes (the areas north of the Caspian Sea) to make repeated incursions into the Roman Empire during the 4th and 5th centuries AD.During the 3rd century BC some of the earlier segments ...

Harold II (born 1022?, ruled 1066), the last king of the Anglo-Saxon period, reigned for only nine months. He was the son of the powerful Earl Godwine and was himself earl of East Anglia and of Wessex before he was chosen king. Most of the time from 1055 until 1066 was spent in conflict with other c...

The American Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Conn. HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE was an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which contributed so much to p...

The American Civil War, George Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876)Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Thank you to Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War for this fine work.Although better known for his Indian fighting, George Custer compiled a creditable record as a cavalry leader in the latter part of the ...

What was it like, that first time under fire? In real battle during the U.S. Civil War? Brothers of the native soil against brothers of the same good earth? Said (or wrote) an officer from Maine sometime after: "The behavior of those who were hit appeared to be singular; and, as there were so many o...