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World War One, Gavrilo Pincip Gavrilo Pincip b. July 25 [July 13, Old Style], 1894, Obljaj, Bosniad. April 28, 1918, Theresienstadt, Austria South Slav nationalist who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his consort, Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg (née Ch...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VINotwithstanding the deranged condition of the Milanese, no furtherattempts were made by the senate of Venice for twenty years. They had not yetacquired that decided love of war and conquest which soon began to influencethem against all the rules of t...

The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence ChamberlainEdited by: Robert Guisepi, 2002 Excerpts From Chamberlain's WritingsA Brief BiographyBy Charles CalhounJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine, the eldest of five children. Facing the much larger city of Bangor across th...

Sojourner Truth 1797(?)-l883 Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionists-for she herself had once been a slave. In the 1820s, when still quite a young woman, she escaped from her New York owner after being brutally treated and sold awa...

World War One, Passchendaele The third major battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, took place between July and November, 1917. General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander in Chief in France, was encouraged by the gains made at the offensive at Messines in June 1917. Haig wa...

Great Civil War In England, Execution Of Charles I Part 1 Author: Macaulay, Lord;Knight, Charles By Lord Macaulay 1649 No period of English history is more crowded with important events than that of the civil war. The intolerant reign of James I had brought him into conflict, not only with the rel...

The European Dream Of Progress And Enlightenment Impact Of The Scientific Revolution Science, Art, And Philosophy In The Eighteenth Century Introduction In the eighteenth century, while royal absolutism faced serious problems, many learned and thoughtful Europeans held a shining vision of the futur...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IKingdom of the Visigoths - Conquest of Spain by the Moors - GradualRevival of the Spanish Nation - Kingdoms of Leon, Aragon, Navarre, andCastile, successively formed - Chartered Towns of Castile - Military Orders -Conquest of...

In Maturity, Eighth To Eleventh Centuries The history of the empire, after the greatest Arab onslaughts had been faced and their results assimilated, offered a dizzying series of weak and strong emperors, periods of vigor alternating with seeming decay. Arab pressure continued. Conquest of the isla...

History Of The Conquest Of Mexico, The Aztecs (part four) Book: Book I: Introduction. Preliminary View Of The Aztec Civilization. Author: Prescott, William H. Chapter V: Aztec Agriculture, Part II. But the occupation peculiarly respected was that of the merchant. It formed so important and singular...

Baseball and the National Anthem In 1918, during the heart of America ’s involvement in World War One, the Americans were assigned the right flank of a large Allied army commanded by the French. The bugle sounded and the Americans along with their French and English allies rose and marched forward t...

A History of England Bede: Conversion of England The Arrival in Kent of the missionaries sent By Gregory the Great (597) In the year of our Lord 582, Maurice, the fifty-fourth emperor from Augustus, ascended the throne and reigned twenty-one years. In the tenth year of his reign, Gregory, a man reno...