Chief Red Cloud Accomplishment

George Armstrong Custer was a United States cavalry officer who served with distinction in the American Civil War and was the youngest ever brevet brigadier general at age twenty-three (History.com Staff, 2009). Custer had various disciplinary issues throughout his career ranging from abandoning his post for romantic reasons to leaving the field without searching for a slain reconnaissance unit (History.com Staff, 2009). His expedition in 1874 that led to the discovery of gold, was in violation of the treaty of 1868 wherein the Black Hills were recognized to belong to the Sioux Nation. Custer was known to have a reckless temperament and was often at odds with superior officers. Nevertheless, as a Lieutenant Colonel assigned to the Seventh Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Riley, Kansas, Custer was tasked to lead the force against Sitting Bull’s alliance (History.com Staff, 2009).

The attack began. Soldiers fired huge guns at the walls of Vera Cruz. One of the men at the guns happened to be Robert's brother, Smith Lee. When he could, Lee went to stand by his brother's gun. "I could see his white teeth through all the smoke of the fire"1 Lee said, in a letter to Mary. The Mexicans soon gave up Vera Cruz. General Scott thanked Lee for his work. Now the Army could move on to the Mexican capital. The march to Mexico City wo!uld be hard. General Scott asked Lee to find the best way to go. And he asked him to see what Santa Anna, the Mexican general, was doing. To get news for Scott, Lee went behind the lines of enemy soldiers. This was dangerous work. Once when Lee was behind enemy lines he heard voices. Mexican soldiers were coming to drink at a spring. Lee jumped under a log. More Mexicans came. They sat on the log and talked. Lee had to hide there until dark. Lee found out many things for Scott. Once he even found a secret road for the army. He was extremely brave. At Cerro Gordo he led the first line of men into battle. The Americans won. Lee then wrote to his son, Custis, "You have no idea what a horrible sight a field of battle is."2 Then came the biggest battle of the war. The Americans attacked a fort outside Mexico City. Lee planned the attack. For days he worked without sleep. He found out where the Mexican soldiers were. He knew where to put the big guns. It was e!asy for the Army to take the fort. The

In this essay I will be talking about the hero and the most important people in Oklahoma history. They are the ones who shaped the state it is today and made the state famous as it is now. I will be picking eight people from the list in this project. They were all blessed by God with their talents and they used it well. The eight people I will be talking about are the following; Jim Thorpe, Mickey Mantle, Paul Harvey, L. Gordon Cooper, Will Rogers, Shannon Lucid, Shannon Miller, and Owen K. Garriot. These are just a few people who not just made Oklahoma look great but U.S.A. look great.

In “A Red Record” Ida speak of while in slavery, individuals were reflected as property and for that reason they were a kind of investment that ensured their lives while treated as unhuman. While after slavery ended these people were cruelly murdered. Wells lost a number of friends to lynching and so her urge became telling the country about all of these terrible happenings that she knew of. She published several articles discussing the killings of her friends. That was not the safest path to choose; soon after she began writing, she started to receive threats and, her newspaper office was destroyed by a mob. After she remained an active writer and also becoming a speaker for the rest of her life, helping to found the NAACP and publishing articles

It was men like this which made the Battle of the Alamo so memorable. Although all of the soldiers fighting in the soldiers fighting in the revolution were putting their lives at risk, these men went beyond that when they marched to what would be their deaths. Travis was also well aware of the sacrifice he was about to make. In what was to be his final letter, he again asked for reinforcements. He described the thousands of Mexican soldiers that were coming in and wrote that without reinforcements, he had no vision of winning this battle, instead,

Have you ever heard of Tecumseh? You probably haven’t read more to learn about this famous war chief! Tecumseh was the son of puckshinwau. “Ohio History Central.” Tecumseh – Ohio History Central. http://www.ohio.history.central.org/w/Tecumseh?rec=373 Web. 24 Feb. 2016 Tecumseh was also a Shawnee native American chief. Did you know that the tribe leader Tecumseh was born near Chillicothe Ohio?

These examples show us so much insight into the real Valley Forge. They show us the brutal conditions of the lives of these poor men who deserved better. The sacrifices that they made were tremendous and often a matter of life and death, before any shots were fired. Again, if it were my decision, I would have strayed from Valley Forge. The thought of leaving my family and the possibility of death before battle would not have been worth the

The author does a great job on describing the journey to and from Valley Forge, and why they were there in the first place

The red cloud uprising started when the army started to build forts on the Bozeman Trail. The lakota tribe used that as their hunting grounds. Crazy horse a leader of that tribe made the commander think that there was a small raiding party at the forts. The army sent a group of 80 soldiers to investigate. The natives were ready and killed the group of soldiers and the us abandoned the forts. The natives wanted there land back so they tricked

The Battle of the Alamo was fought by many valiant people, but the most inspirational of them all would have to be Colonel James Bowie. It is well known that he fell ill during the battle, but his earier actions spurred the Texans fight. As a colonel, the Texans looked up to him as a leader. During the final battle, the colonel still tried to fight along side his people. He was near death and he was drenched in perspiration, but that

The video thoroughly went over the entire story of the battle and its history. There were also many useful maps, explanations, and artifacts. The artifacts such as the bullets, cannon balls, weapons, supplies and uniforms are very cool to observe.

Ransom A Slack is the soldier that I made a biography on. He was a farmer as a young boy and continued through his life. As a child he had a brother and three sisiters. He worked as a farmer almost his full life before and after the war. Like most of the young men in vermont he went to the war to fight for his country. He thought of war to be thing that he must to as his duty. He went to war to get away from the hard work of daily life and to be honored.

The name of the chief is Chief Tecumseh. Chief Tecumseh was a part of the Shawnee tribe and he fought and died in the War of 1812. The Chief also fought in the Revolutionary War. Chief Tecumseh was born in an Indian village which is now known as Ohio. His name means shooting star. His father name was Puckeshinwa and he was the Chief of the Shawnee tribe. When Chief Tecumseh died he died at the battle of Thames. In his early twentys Chief Tecumseh had 32 tribes and 10,000 poeple during the war. He also had a brother that was named Lalawethika. he as born in March 1768. His mothers name is Methotaske and he also had another sibling named Cheeseekau.

Tecumseh became the prominent war chief of the Shawnee Native American group by the 1800. He led a group of young warriors along with their families that were located in east-central Indiana. In 1805, Lalawethika, Tecumseh’s younger brother, had some visions which led him into becoming a religious leader. Tecumseh accepted his

SGM Frank Grippe is my modern day hero because as a young soldier I looked up to him because he was the one who took me in and mentored me to be the person I am today. SGM Grippe during Afghanistan in Operation Anaconda took his guys into combat and brought us all back many was injured but we didn’t lose anyone. We fought off God knows how many repeated attacks, did a lot of killing during a long night and endless day and night against al-Qaida who was trying to kill us with mortars and sniper fire in that icy windblown mountains. What kept us going was the feeling that we weren’t going to be put down by anybody. We were 1/87. Grippe’s battalion. SGM Grippe told us the night before we have been training