The Battle Of The Empire

The Roman Empire had a solid armed force which was viewed as the best battling power in mankind 's history. The Roman Army strategies and arrangements, versatile troop organization and adaptable vital sending permitted the Romans to make and keep up an extended and stable Empire which made out of various individuals from various ethnic gatherings (Luttwak, 2016).

Chau’s thesis that the rise and fall of empires was due to tolerance, inclusion, difference, and diversity is shown to be true of the Roman Empire because of the way that tolerance allowed and caused the empire to rise, enter its golden age, and fall. The Roman Empire was a “hyperpower” that lasted from 44 BCE to 476 CE. The empire contained Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe, along with North Africa; thus, there was an abundance of culture from many different conquered groups. Romans wanted to make these conquered nations provinces of Rome. The Roman Empire began (and the Roman Republic ended) with the assassination of Julius Caesar, who wanted to be a dictator. No longer a republic, the lands already ruled by Rome became part of an empire. The government became centralized with a single ruler, the emperor. However, even before the empire, during the Republic, there was also the similar feeling of wanting to conquer other nations was there.

In some ways the confederacy is more alive and active today than it was in the 1860s. Arguments over its symbols, its flags, its leaders, its memorials, and its legacy have been almost constant over the past several years. These battles are always about one thing, the meaning of the confederacy. This usually devolves into an “it’s about slavery, it’s about states’ rights” argument with neither side listening to the other, each side convinced that it is right. Nevertheless, the question remains: what did it mean to be a confederate during the Civil War? The men, women, and children who consider themselves confederates during the 1860s created a nation, believed so strongly that they fought and died to defend it, and then saw that nation disappear into nothing. How do you reconcile that lost? How do you justify the pain and suffering that your family endured for it all to be in vain? You do it through myth and legend; you do it with the hope that the idea of the confederacy lives on even though the nation itself does not, and in that regard it succeeded. The ideal and myth of the confederacy not only outlasted the confederacy itself, but transcended into the very essence of American culture as the Lost Cause.

Between 1870-1900, the European scramble for empire sparked a new attitude for Americas view on the expansion. The United States sought to influence and control other parts of the world in order to protect its national interests. The fear of the country being closed out in the struggle for global markets and raw materials and profits from foreign sales motivated the American quest for global influence. "Republican senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, claiming that the "great nations" were seizing "the waste areas of the world", advised that "the United States must not fall out of the line of march" because "civilization and the advancement of the [Anglo-Saxon] race" were at stake" (Norton, Mary Beth. Chapter 19: The Quest for Empire

On 15 January, Porter continued to be in position to provide their most massive bombardment yet in preparation for the attack. At noon, 1600 sailors and 400 marines executed the ground assault along the beach about a mile and a half north of the fort. By 1500 the marines’ new position was now unable to effectively provide cover for the ensuing assault and failed to keep the Confederate riflemen off the fort’s parapet. As 1500 passed, the sailors quickly became restless for the army’s attack signal. Not waiting for visual confirmation of the army’s attack as directed, 1600 sailors ran across the open beach, and the naval attack very quickly became a rout. The sailors with only their pistols and cutlasses were no match for the Confederate riflemen, canister, and grape. After only 20 minutes the assault was repulsed, with the men retreating in droves, leaving over three hundred dead or wounded sailors and marines. Many of the wounded were left to drown in the rising tide. This was not the outcome Admiral Porter’s had envisioned.

Confederates enter the war with a belief that would also sustain them during war years and ultimately shape the south after the war, a durable belief in their invincibility. Even after major turning points of the war, diehard Rebels continued to express a resilient belief in their invincibility. They were unconquerable and they truly stuck it about because they expected to win. Their ethos; beliefs of being highly favored children of God, attitudes of invincibility (homegrown and those spread through propaganda), patriotism, masculinity, and veteran comradery - on many different levels help to shape the war and the New South.

The Ottoman empire, at the turn of the 20th century was considered one of the weakest empires in the entirety of Europe, weakened by political instability, military defeat and civil strife after a century of decline. In 1908 a group called the “Young Turks” seized control of Constantinople, while a figurehead Sultan was put in place in 1909.

Over the course of the history of man there have be many great military units. The Egyptian Medjay, Thebes of Theban, the Immortals of Persia, and even the Ninjas of Japan were some of the best fighting men of their time. These units were created for one purpose; to win at all cost. King Charles II of England also created his own special unit. “Formed in the reign of King Charles II on October 28, 1664 as the Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot (or Admiral’s Regiment), the name Marines first appeared in the records in 1672” (Museum, RM, and Charles Stadden). This unit is now called the Royal Marines. On June 14th 1775 the Continental Congress created the Continental Army of the thirteen colonies in order to fight the British in the upcoming Revolutionary war. The Army was just an Army, it was not a special unit. Continental Congress needed something more, something Amphibious. In response, Continental Congress created the Marine Corps. The birth of the Marine Corps played a key role in American history prior to 1877 due to their perfection in tactics, and grit.

It had been over a year since anyone had seen an aircraft carrier sitting off the coast; it was a mother hen looking over her young. The small armada had made good time and arrived in the late evening of the fifth day. The USS Iowa with her powerful guns standing guard; Sailors were at their battle stations twenty-four seven now, in the morning the transports would make their way into Norfolk followed by the Iowa. The USS Hornet would remain on duty off the coast; the Iowa would only be in port long enough to drop off the Admiral, once that was done it would quickly return to the Hornet.

The three soldiers were able to make it to the coast. They had taken a route that took them around the Marines and 82nd Airborne, while making note of their numbers, vehicles and weapons. They were surprised to find them there, with Second Brigade no place in sight. They entered Baltimore from the north and headed southeast where they found much of the city sparse with life, though some civilians told them of the Supreme General and her Army and how they were defeated. The soldiers again were surprised, since they were told stories of fighter aircraft coming out of nowhere, and destroying the main base. They were also told of the mighty shells that came in and destroyed the Supreme General’s compound.

Hood started out by having Brown and Cleburne to attack Wagner’s line of 3000 men. Wagner’s men were guarded by fieldworks put up before the Confederates had arrived, but since they were made in haste, they quickly collapsed. Wagner’s line let out a single volley of rifle fire before turning around and retreating to the main line. The Confederates were on the heels of the fleeing Federals, so the defending Federals couldn’t fire in fear of hitting their own. This inability to shoot caused a weak spot in the center of the Union line, so Brown, Cleburne, and French focused their troops on that spot. Within minutes, the Confederates had breached the line forty yards in, and Union soldiers quickly started retreating. It was looking to be a

In an award winning fictitious novel, Julie Asuka explores the lives of some Japanese immigrants living in the Southern part of America during the Second World War. In about four months following the Pearl Habour, Japanese Americans received instructions through signs all over the streets of the Unites States of America, to report to incarceration camps during the war period.1The writer describes this situation as a form of alienation and oppression through the use of one family. This family’s nightmare is explored from various points of view which ultimately lead to an experience that alters their lives forever . This order led to the splitting of the family, from when the mother receives an evacuation letter, followed by the long train journey experience of the daughter, the son living in the desert military camp, the return home of the family members, as well as the release and homecoming of their father from a bitter four year captivity. The novel tells of a forgotten ancient American wartime episode from history.

The Roman empire is considered one of the most powerful and longest lasting empire of all time by most historians. At its peak the Roman empire managed to take control and rule nearly the whole inhabited world at the time. Though their military achievements were outstanding the Romans also excelled at legislature. The Romans ran a governmental system which was most like a republic which the power was in the hand of the senators and patricians. The senators and patricians were mostly extremely rich elders of the community who linked themselves to gods. Though the people were the ones who voted for the senators the rich always voted who they wanted because they were the first to vote which made the senate corrupt since the lower classes barely got a say. Although the Roman empire was extremely successful historians are always doing research to figure out what elements led to its collapse. However, the Roman legislature, use of propaganda to sway public opinion, military power to conquer lands, and philosophy were essential reasons for the extended survival of the Roman empire.

Minae Mizumura argue in “Who Wants to Marry an Emperor” that being married to an emperor is a fool’s errand; women are the ideal candidates of an noble emperor. Despite her trivial attacks on male emperors, men are undoubtedly far superior in ruling justified by their extension back to antiquity rulers, capability, and traditional essence.

Each story of a conflict between two side, whether that be two people, cultures, communities, nations, etc, they all have two different opinions. Each side has their own idea of the events and actions that took place, and who did what, who did it first, who started it. However, the truth is always somewhere in the middle. The conclusion that cannot be argued regarding the our historical legacies of globalization, is the fact that the Europeans began the age of exploration and formed the world into one unified world. However, horrific events also took place in this binding of the world. Whole cultures were lost and entire communities of people were wiped off the face of the Earth, with no justified reason why. It was the Europeans that destroyed these cultures and crushed anyone standing in their way of conquest. The Aztecs provide a prime example of the horrific events of globalization. These were a people of great strength and a great empire, yet they were still overtaken by the lust of the Europeans in their search for gold. The legacy of the Aztec is gone and forgotten. Their religion, culture, and lifestyle is nonexistent nowadays. The Europeans hold the blame for this disgusting event in our history. However, how can we respond to this. To what extent can we fix the wrong of our ancestors. With all of them exterminated, how can we even show our feelings of regret. This connects with the idea of the Europeans being at fault, because of them we cannot even respond to