Biography Of Lieutenant Jean Brillant

Dear Mother, It’s been a long time since I had the opportunity to sit down and write you a letter. I miss you and father a lot. I am overjoyed to be writing this letter to you. The mood here is one of jubilation. Our assault on Vimy Ridge began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday, eight days ago. We lost a lot of good boys but I am so very pleased to inform you that the Canucks got the job done! What the French couldn’t do for two years and the Brits too we, Byng’s Boys did in three days. I was assigned to the front line in the trenches as part of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade attached to the 4th Canadian Division. This is actually the first time all four divisions got to work together as a unified Canadian Corps. They

The speaker is Baron de Breteuil, a French diplomat from Moscow. The speaker is credible because even though he acknowledges how certain aspects of her reign will flourish and how her passion proves useful in Russian society, he does mention negative vices that will inflict havoc upon her sovereignty and ultimately lead to internal faults in her empire.

During the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the 2nd Infantry was ordered to cover the retreat from Strasburg, Virginia in the battle at Front Royal on May 23, 1862. In this engagement Shaw received a minor wound and was recognized by his men for exhibiting courage and a cool composure during the fight. But the 2nd Infantry would not experience their real baptism of fire until the Northern Virginia Campaign at the Cedar Mountain wheatfield, August 9, 1862. The regiment suffered terrible losses and would be tested again on September 17 at the Battle of Antietam, considered the bloodiest single day in the war. Shaw, now a captain in the unit, received a minor wound but felt the excitement of the battle as never before. However, after experiencing the horrors of this event, he wished more than ever that the war would end. Shaw was offered a deal to take command of a new All-Black Regiment. At first, he declined the offer, but after further thought he accepted the

Many people have been born that have struck a chord with the world. Some people have become legends, patriots and even heroes. Though one person stood out among the rest, this one was not made a hero, but was born to be one. He was a hero at what he strived to be in life and he has captured the attention of the public like no other solider has done before or since. This great Canadian Air Force Ace became one of the legendary figures in 20th century air warfare. With his daring and dramatic dogfights in France, he achieved a record of 72 kills in his many encounters. His role on the ground during the Second World War training pilots changed and inspired a whole new generation of fighter pilots. This man is known

Benjamin Tallmadge was an officer in the Continental Army that rose to the rank Colonel (COL) by the end of the Revolutionary War. He served as Chief Intelligence Officer to General (GEN) George Washington during the war and was a close advisor to the Commander-in-Chief He distinguished himself as a leader in battle while assigned to the 2nd Regiment of the Light Dragoons and solidified his place as a Legacy Leader. COL Tallmadge displayed all of the Attributes and Competencies of an effective Army Leader that are found in Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 6-22. His legacy as a distinguished leader had a great influence on me personally, both as a leader and a Military Intelligence Professional.

He was a private (the lowest fighting rank in the military), but was promoted to a corporal. For some reason he decided to decline the higher position. The new position he was given had better pay, and more benefits from the army. He would be respected more by everyone else, but he declined. Most troops would have loved to take that position but he decided not to. Still to this day it is unknown why he declined. Almost all of his regiment was untrained, including him. Their regiment was in many battles but never any important battles. He was not injured badly in battle and he made it back home to his

Over the progression if history, there have been many true Canadian heroes and well known captains under specific air forces. Plenty of captains are widely known for what they have done. For example, Arthur Billy Bishop was a Canadian flying ace and was credited 72 victories, which made him the top Canadian ace of the war. There were many more captains and they have earned that power, thoroughly like Roy Brown did. Roy Brown was a true Canadian hero, joining the Royal Naval Air Service and being appointed as the Temporary Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant who was officially credited with shooting down von Richthofen. The Royal Air Force (RAF) credited Roy Brown for shooting down Manfred von Richthofen who was also known as the Red Baron. Roy

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican, and his father was a Haitian immigrant, the combination of both eventually led Jean-Michel's into learning creole, Spanish, and English. At an early age, Jean-Michel decided he wanted to be a cartoonist and so his mother took him to a art museums in order to stimulate his imagination. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. At the age of eight, he was extremely injured in a car accident and was hospitalized for a month. He broke his arm, suffered multiple internal injuries and underwent a splenectomy. His mother brought him a copy of his Grey’s

Role/Responsibility on D-day: He was assigned to The Regina Rifle Regiment after enlistment and fought in the first wave.

Christopher Edwin Breaux was born on October 28 1987 in Long Beach, California. When he was about five years old, his family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. When Breaux was young he would go around doing neighborhood chores to earn money to rent studio time to work on music he was creating. The first type of music he was exposed to was through his mother’s CD’s of Celine Dion and Phantom Of The Opera. After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Breaux moved to Los Angeles to continue working on music where he earned a songwriting deal and began writing music for artists such as Justin Bieber, John Legend, and Beyonce. In 2009, he changed his name to Frank Ocean and joined a hip-hop collective group named Odd Future and met Tyler The Creator, a rapper,

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and soldier who played a major role in the Revolutionary War. Although he had an impressive title, “to all the Patriots, he was simply “the Marquis”” (Bernier, 2017, p. 3). According to UShistory.org, The Marquis de Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757 in Chavaniac-Lafeyette, France. At the age of two his father died in the Seven Year War which was fought in Europe. At the age of eleven his mother passed away, leaving him as an orphan. In 1771, when he was fourteen he joined the Royal Army of France. When the Marquis turned sixteen, he married Marie Adrienne de noailles, who was from one of the wealthiest families in the country and was a relative

Dreams are satisfying; they make you feel like as if you're flying on a cloud, or you had just sold a best-selling book or you'd just fixed a broken machine that hasn't worked for years. I, Hugo Cabret, had a really good dream until the sound of the bothersome clock rouse me up into a ray of blinding light and the air of dust and loneliness. Up until then, the unrealistic dream had deluded my eyes to see the fixed Automaton sketch its message, brainwashed my mind to have its full attention on Papa Georges' horrendous and unspeakable past, and obtained my soul captured by Isobel's beauty and interest in books. It's been so long since I've read a book, that the words I'd learned to peruse as a youngster has vanished from my brain. Therefore, I greatly relished the time I had with Isobel when regaining the ability to read again and I hate to admit it, but also spending a little more time with her. Unfortunately, my solace suddenly terminated, just when Isobel was going to

In the most urban areas, one could look around and notice certain words or phrases with many colors and shapes. Graffitti may not seem like “art” to some but to Jean Basquiat, it was. It was his way to express how he felt about certain aspects of life and the society that surrounded him.

“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” Jean Michel Basquiat was an abstract expressionist that has changed the art world forever. He has touched many artist styles and improved art to the finest. Many people look up to this man for his creativity. Known as the “public eye” for neo expressionist, Basquiat will always be the face of this contemporary group (Fretz). Jean Michel’s impact on the world around us has been encountered by many people; his importance to art is momentous. Jean’s purpose in life was not only to show off his artistic skills, but to start something new.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 1960. With a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat's assorted social legacy was one of his many wellsprings of motivation. A self-educated artist, Basquiat started drawing at an early age on sheets of paper his dad, a bookkeeper, brought home from the workplace. As he dug further into his imaginative side, his mom emphatically urged him to seek after creative abilities. Basquiat initially pulled in consideration for his spray painting in New York City in the late 1970s, under the name "SAMO." Working with a dear companion, he labeled metro trains and Manhattan structures with mysterious truisms. In 1977, Basquiat quit secondary school a year prior to