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… Ajaccio, Corsica. He had 7 brothers and sisters. His original nationality was Corsican-Italian. He also despised the French. He thought they were oppressors of his native land. His father was a lawyer, and was also anti-French. One reason Napoleon may…

… outgrow of an effort to discover why the principal British colonies in North America were on the point of rebellion in 1765-1766, ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolution. The author, Bernhard Knollenberg, a lecturer at Yale University,…

… genius was probably the greatest single factor in keeping the Confederacy alive through the American Civil War. Lee was born on January 19, 1807, in Stratford, Virginia. He was the son of Revolutionary War hero, Henry Lee III. Lee was also a model…

… in America had enjoyed relative freedom from England since they arrived. They came to the New World, after all to escape England, for whatever reasons they may have had-religious, economic, or social. When England decided in the eighteenth century that…

… It was waged in 10,000 places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it. It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new weapons, the…

… is one titled The Grapes of Wrath. This is a story of a family called the Joads, and a tale of a courageous family who sought security and family unity. In my paper I will examine the different ways the Joads tried to keep united…

… words spoken by Paul Revere to Colonel William Conant, an American soldier stationed in the steeple of the North Church in Boston, waiting to relay the signal of the intended path of the British invasion on April 18, 1775 (The Glorious Cause 268)…

… mistake just waiting to happen to anyone?         When George Donner, and his brother Jake took the advice of a man they did not know, they felt confident in his word. He told them of a trail that was supposedly faster than the popular…

… Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She spent only the first six months of her live as a slave, but she spent the rest of it fighting for the rights of freed blacks. Ida was born six…

… intense sectional conflict of social and political difference between the North and the South. Slavery played a big part in the cause of the civil war, north not believing in slavery and the south slavery was praised. Slaves was the largest single…