British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War

exists. The British military expedition in the hinterland of the Bight of Biafra between 1895 and 1912 which followed the naval explorations is barely remembered by any of the generations of the Igbo born after 1920. That expedition, which sought to disarm the Igbo peoples, wreak havoc on their lives, destroy their culture and their religion, and ruin their economic activities and their way of life, leaving a trail of injury, chaos, mayhem, and death is now all but forgotten. The war which the military

“The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost (Joseph Stalin).” “Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in a poor village in Georgia (Joseph Stalin).” Permanently scarred from a childhood bout with smallpox and having a mildly deformed arm, Stalin always felt unfairly treated by life, and thus developed a strong, romanticized desire for greatness and respect, combined with a shrewd streak of calculating cold-heartedness towards

09/2015 JISPC CASE STUDY SYNDICATE TWO Easter Offensive in Vietnam in 1972 How the North Vietnamese The Easter Offensive was a military campaign conducted by the communist People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and its allies in 1972. The PAVN, led by General Giap, caught the United States and South Vietnam by surprise when they dropped guerilla warfare approach and launched a three-pronged multi-division cross-border invasion. With ample intelligence

The revolutionary Supercub was the first motorcycle that was designed to allow the operator to change gears with one hand. The powerful, lightweight and easy to operate machine appealed to the Japanese housewife who needed to have a vehicle to use while carrying shopping bags. (The gasoline shortage in Japan after WWII severely limited automobile use.) From 1960-1973, the British share of the US market dropped from 49% to 9% - largely due

government. By 1848, the meaning of the term changed. It was employed to describe violent revolutionaries who revolted against governments. By the end of the 1800s and early 1900s, terrorism was used to describe the violent activities of a number of groups including: labor organizations, anarchists, nationalist groups revolting against foreign powers, and ultranationalist political organizations. After World War II (1939–1945), the meaning changed again. As people revolted from European domination of

throughout the world to memorialize soldiers who have died in modern wars without being identified. The first monument of this kind was the Tomb of Unknown Soldiers in Frederica, Denmark (1858), which memorialized unknown soldiers who died in the First War of Schleswig. Another such Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is found in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was erected in 1866 to honor those soldiers who died during the American Civil War. The history of Tomb of Unknown Soldier begins in modern times in

without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law” (Third Amendment). Over time, this Amendment has been interpreted as the forbiddance of forcible housing of military personnel in a citizen’s home. The only reason this amendment was ratified was because it was a response to the Quartering Acts that were passed by the British parliament before the American Revolutionary War, which allowed the British Army to place soldiers in private residences. Ever since

When the Soviet Union collapsed and the cold war came to an end, the world felt as if it were on the edge of unlimited peace and prosperity. Unfortunately, new issues came to light, such as terrorism. Terrorism is defined by Title 22 of the United States code, section 2656(d) as “the pre-meditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.” In light of recent terrorist activity in

kept a change in Americans heart (374 ). A significant amount of terrorism in American’ history reflects as being motivated by a distrust of American ideal values of democracy, or emerging today issue in which people of various races or backgrounds claimed to belong or loyalty group and or American system. In a nutshell, history teaches us that domestic terrorism can be explained as a violent tendency towards a movement and rights group to proof who or what is authentic in American system. On the other

During the great war 30,000 Marines were sent to the war torn continent, more than a third were either wounded or didn’t come home and many came home as different people being the first of many to experience shell shock (USMC History Division Web). Just before World War 2 the Marines and in general the United States armed forces saw a revamping of its war machine. After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps was sent with