Frederick William I, also known as the “solider king” acieved great success for Prussia. He was a military mastermind who constructed the largest army in Europe. The military was alway his first priority. Therefore, he always kept his military uniform on. He constructed this great army with his side kick, Prince Lepold of Anhalt-Dessau. Dessau was a great solider and strategist. He made the army percised with his invention of the marching step. He also, provided the soliders with bayonetts and replaced the old ramrod with ones made out of iron which enabled them to reload their muskets faster. Furthermore, Frederick William I was a hash disiplinarian who punished misbehaved soliders by flogging and executions. Therefore, his special equitment
“‘Let’s hurry back to the ‘Mayflower’ and bring our families ashore, William declared. But when they reached the ‘Mayflower,’ one person was missing. While they were gone, Dorothy Bradford had fallen overboard. She had been too weak to save herself. Once more, William was alone.” (pg. 176-177) Despite all the hardships that were thrown at him during his life, William Bradford, still became a remarkable, well-known man. When many of us would be asked if we knew who William Bradford was, we would quickly respond saying he was a great leader all throughout his life. Although, what hardships in life and experiences did he have when he was a boy, which transformed him into to such a greatly known man. Bradford Smith’s Book, “William Bradford Pilgrim
Most of the military factors that led to the rise of Prussia came from Fredrick William ‘The Elector’. He was the first leader in Prussia to create and
There is a small white church located on a U.S. highway near the intersection of two Interstate highways in northern New Jersey. There, a Scottish flag flies over an easily missed gravestone in a small churchyard. This stone was erected by an American Founding Father over the burial plot of an officer in the British Army during the Revolution.
Frederick Bailey was born into slavery the February of 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton, on the Eastern shore of Maryland. The farm was one of many in the estate owned by Aaron Anthony. His mother, Harriet Bailey worked too long hours in the fields around Holmes Hill to take care of him, so at an extremely young age, he was sent to live with his grandmother, Betsey Bailey. He lived with his grandma until he was six, and then was moved to a horrible home owned by the slave owner Captain Anthony, where his grandma was sold to another slave owner. The African American children at this household were given tattered linens that went down to their knees as clothes, their food was cornmeal mush given to them in a pig trough, and had
Frederick Douglass Patterson was born on October 10, 1901, in Washington, D.C. He was the youngest of five children and was named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Both of Patterson's parents died of tuberculosis when he was still a toddler, and at just 2 years old, he was sent to live with his aunt Julia Dorsey. When Patterson was 7, his older sister Wilhelmina Bessie became his legal guardian.
In the reading by Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read, he talks about how he learned how to read. He grew up in Maryland and he talks about how his mistress, his slave owners’ wife, taught him the alphabet and how to read. Eventually she stopped, due to him being a slave he wasn’t suppose to know how to read, and Douglass had to continue to learn how to read by himself.
I strongly suggest that you should name a middle school after Robert Fulton because he changed the transportation system.He is caring since he gave half of his paycheck and his bonus to his mother to buy a farm for her since she didn’t have a home and he could’ve just bought more parts for ships and stuff.He was a silversmith as a teenager and he went to study art with Benjamin West a famous artist in England but he decided to quit art since he thought that the world needed more inventors and he liked making cool things in his free time.His profession is being an engineer and an inventor.He was born in 1765 Lancaster County which is an area in Pennsylvania, and he died in Pennsylvania 1815 and that meant he was american and lived to be around 50 when he died. He died by pneumonia since he was trying to save his friend from a frozen river and it developed after he saved him cause he couldn’t dry off in time so the cold seeped into him and he also caught tuberculosis and that meant that he was caring and he could’ve just left him there and he would
Robert Fulton, an engineer, inventor, and the creator of the first submarine. Yes this essay is all about him and his work. Born in Lancaster, died in New York. Robert had done many marvelous things before he died. Here you will read about them and his effects on todays world. He was a son of Ireland immigrants who had lost their farm and had to move to Pennsylvania. There is where he was born. He was sent to a quaker school at age 8 after being able to read and write after teaching himself at home. When he got older he began painting portraits for lockets at a PA jewlery store. He was a fantastic artist. Fulton did get sick. He had a severe cough and had to go to Bath, VA to recover from the cough. I guess they didn't have cough drops back
There have been a lot of great men and women in history. They have been in every country or territory around the world and they are all connected in world history. Every great man or women in history is worth to learn about not just to learn about the past, but prepare for the future. They teach lessons about the past that can be implemented in the future. Oliver Cromwell is one of the great men in world history that helps teach lessons not only about his life, but helps connect all history in the world.
Newspaper correspondents valiant in their reporting of the exploits of Ben Hall and Co, were also finding themselves in the firing line by locals with attempts to intimidate them from reporting the gangs activities, these local supporters and friends of the bushrangers, who were acting as spies and telegraphs for the gang, as well as helping to fence the gang's stolen booty or in receipt of it for harbouring, were somewhat shy of publicity and of the possibility of being implicated in the press and subsequently drawn into the police's attention, brought written threats, as alluded to by Sir Frederick in his last telegram of the 14th instant, the type of threat to reporters is described here in 'The Empire' newspaper from April 1863, the correspondent
Oliver Cromwell, born April 25, 1599. He was the Lord Protector for England, Ireland and Scotland, also being a military and political leader in earlier stages for England. Oliver was one of ten children. Having seven sisters and two brothers, Oliver was the only son to survive past infancy. Oliver, along with his other siblings were all born in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England. While in a local school as a young boy it was said that he was more or so drawn to being a Puritan by most of his teachers and professors. He often went against others and their religious beliefs because he was such a strong willed Puritan. In sixteen-sixteen Cromwell entered into Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge but soon after left because of the sudden
Oliver Cromwell is a very well known English military and political leader. Cromwell’s spouse was Elizabeth Cromwell. He has had many great achievements throughout his life that have caused many ripple effects on other events. Oliver Cromwell was born April 25, 1599 in Huntingdon, England. He studied at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England, but due to his father's death he was not able to graduate and get a degree. In 1640 he became a dedicated puritan (a member of English Protestant).
Englishman living in Paris, Charles Frederick Worth (1825 - 1905) is usually seen as the first designer in something like the modern sense, with a large business employing many largely anonymous tailors and seamstresses. A former draper, Worth's success was such that he was able to dictate to his customers what they should wear. Launched into the spotlight as the Empress Eugénie's primary designer, Worth used his royal connections to gain recognition and clients. The proclamation on February 1, 1853 by Napolón III that no visitors would be received to his court without formal dress meant that the popularity of Worth style gowns was overwhelming. Ornately decorated and constructed in the finest materials, Worth's gowns are well known for their
He typically said the he was the ‘first servant of the state’. Frederick’s tolerance roughly influenced the great thinkers of his time and encouraged new philosophies to arise. Not only did he develop Prussia; he also made many alterations that helped create a modern society. Frederick gave people the right to “freedom of the press and created individual rights” by moving up the legal
Friedrich Froebel, a German educationalist, was born on April 21, 1782 in Oberweissbach, Germany. When he was only nine months old, his mother passed away. His father, a Lutheran pastor, remarried when Froebel was four years old. Unfortunately, Froebel had a very unhappy childhood and was neglected by his father and stepmother. He spent most of his childhood outside in gardens. Spending so much time outside led him to develop a love of nature, which later influenced his views on the way children should be educated.