Regardless of the close ties of people and culture with Britain, the colonists started the American Revolutionary War. ... This contradiction implied that the American Revolutionary War, instead of being a random, passionate incident, was in truth an inevitable event that ensued from certain political and economic conditions that was bound to happen in the Thirteen Colonies but not the Province of Quebec. ... The attitudes toward British reign between the Thirteen Colonies and the Province of Quebec had been widely different long prior to the Revolutionary War. ... There must have been some m...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Although some historians think the war was the result of political screw-ups and that the issue of slavery did not cause the war. ... Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War (Boritt 634)". ... "A festering unresolved issue left from the Revolutionary War was the institution of slavery. ... We had fought the Revolutionary War to be free of the English, but slavery had always been legal during that time. ...

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James Otis The Revolutionary War brought out dynamic personalities of men, which have made freedom a reality for us. ... He was an extremely powerful militia general during the revolutionary war, contributing in many ways to the independence effort. ... George Washington The American Revolutionary War brought out, with out question, some the finest possible patriots known to man, each rising up against the powerful crown of England. ... Charles Lee American patriots during the Revolutionary War of the 1770s and 1780s did not necessarily come from the colonies. ... Tea, 1771 -73...

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He introduced a French-style constitution and sold off the property of the church, as expected of a revolutionary Frenchman. ... He went to war with the rest of Europe in order to export these ideals. ... Critics of the Legion of Honour point out that such a move was contrary to revolutionary ideals of equality. The Legion represented the glorification of war in a "society [that] was dominated by military values The glory of war was the supreme good, the measure of character."" ... Its significance lies in the fact that it clarified and codified all the various, confusing and inconsistent le...

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The means by which they sought to achieve these goals ranged from peaceful negotiation to armed insurrection and protracted revolutionary warfare. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. ... This forced the Viet Minh to revert to a passive stage of revolutionary warfare and gave the French a false sense of security that the Viet Minh could never match them in a "set-piece" battle. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... A number of Viet Minh remained in the South as a cadre for a future ...

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In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. ... However, our emphasis is on the usefulness of the concept for studying the "transition" fro...

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The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another. ... Now contrast all of this with the American Revolution, more correctly called the War for Independence. ... A war was fought to be sure, and soldiers died in that war. But . . . there was none of the butchery which we have come to accept as a natural concomitant of revolutionary warfare. . . . There was no 'revolutionary justice'; there was no reign of terror; there were no bloodthirsty proclamations by the Continental Congress." ...

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Gabriel Marquez gave an example of the social and economic injustices committed in his home country, Colombia, in his Nobel Prize speech: "There have been five wars and seventeen military coups; there emerged a dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. ... The revolutionary spirit of discontent also may have driven it, which naturally is critical of the status quo. ... True to South American conditions, the workers are revolutionaries as well as the disgruntled workforce protesting real, almost ludicrous, injustices. ... In "The Real...

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Spain's attempt to keep religious and political unity within her empire led to a long war in the Netherlands, a war that pulled England over to the side of the Protestant Dutch. ... The First War (1562-1563) The first religious war was provoked by the massacre at Vassy in 1562. ... This provoked the second war, which was much a repeat of the first. ... The Third War (1568-1570) It was destined to be short-lived. ... They instead escaped to La Rochelle and raised an army to begin the third war. ...

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There were fourteen women among those arrested during the protests against the steep rise in prices of flour and bread, other wise known as the 'flour war' of 1775. ... The women were determined to lower the bread prices and punish the royal officer who insulted their revolutionary cockade. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. ... Italy had long-standing problems that were made worse by the war. ... Small shopkeepers and white-collar workers-social groups that did not think the working-class movement supported their interests-found themselves alienated by business elites on the one hand and by apparently revolutionary radicals on the other. ... After the war, these groups formed the base of Mussolini's fascist movement. ... Indeed, the government quickly aligned with big business, creating more of a corrupt bureaucrac...

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In 1795 he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. ... STRATEGY AND TACTICS BY NAPOLEON In each battles and campaign he always applied key element of war. ... From this main strategic manoeuvre he derived and applied a number of wars principal. NAPOLEON PRINCIPLES OF WAR Before embarking in determining the limitations of Napoleon's strategy on war, one should understand the principles of war that he applies in various battle and campaigns. ... He always concerned and emphasized the security aspect in his war. ...

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Moreover, any war against Austria in the 1820's would mean war against Russia and Prussia too because the Holy Alliance acted as international police force resisting the tide of change. ... It was doubtful whether they could succeed with no foreign aid but only an ant-revolutionary Holy Alliance. ... Moreover, the war was to be achieved from above not below, by the monarchy, not the masses. ... Mazzini was continue to be preacher of Italian nationality and it needed "Mazzini to endow the revolutionary movement with a spiritual quality", as J. ... Hence, revolutionary sentiment grew, aimi...

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The Forefathers of this revolutionary way of painting were Pablo Picasso and George Braque. ... The movement's theorist, he glorified danger, war and violence, the love of speed and the wonder of the machine age. ... The range of Futurist manifestos was simply vast and covered every aspect of the arts - painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, music, photography, cinema, theatre, scenography, costume design, etc - as well as the everyday - love, war, women, and so on. ...

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The French Revolution was a dramatic change in all of European history. The revolution was necessary in the fact that it changed the lifestyles of all humans in France during this time. The revolution was a gateway to new discoveries up until this day. It allowed women to gain some privileges and changed the ways of governing. The French Revolution could have been avoided, but it would have delayed the development of the world that we know. ...

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Because of the lost wars such as the War of the League of Augsburg and the Seven Years War with England, France had a war debt of half its annual budget. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... A split slowly opened up between the moderate and radical revolutionaries. ... Maximilien Robespierre, the "guiding spirit" of the radical revolutionaries, ruled over the chaos until he was overcome by the moderates, who came back with a fury and finally drove a republican constitution to approval by the National Conven...

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History raves about the heroics of men in war...but few instances are mentioned in which female courage was displayed. ... Soon after this the Revolutionary War began. ... Deborah thought often about this because growing up her family was influenced by war. "Deborah in a sense was born to war. ... This was laughed at because Deborah was a female and the woman's place was not in war but at home. ...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... Along similar lines, and in the Marxist Tradition, Leftist writer and co-founder of Worker's World Party, Sam Marcy, interprets th...

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With the Revolutionary war going on at the time the was a shortage of basic building materials so in his forge he created nails with scrap metal thus creating a huge profit for him and his family. ... Soon after the Revolutionary war ended he started to sell hatpins and men's walking sticks, which turned an even greater profit. ... In 1792, Eli Whitney visited the plantation of Catherine Greene, the wife of Revolutionary War general, Nathaniel Greene, near Savannah Georgia. ... This continuation of slavery by the South led to a ripple effect that can be seen as a driving force behind t...

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Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ...

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The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out as a result of the Sikh Empire of the Punjab falling into disorder after the death of the Maharajah Ranjit Singh in 1839, and British desire to secure the Punjab. ...

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Politicians such as Henry Clay said that he would only support annexation if such a move could be done without any war with Mexico. ... Polk became president; decidedly pro-Texas, pro-expansionist, and pro-manifest destiny, Polk began making war preparations to annex Texas under any means necessary, including war with Mexico. ... Surely enough, Mexico attacked Taylor's troops and killed 11 Americans; that was all Polk needed to declare war on Mexico. In the Senate, Polk was able to obtain permission to declare war on Mexico despite objections from the Whig Party. ... Such an atrocity arou...

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IS THE CONCEPT OF CLASS WAR STILL VALID? ... The use of the single word 'class' therefore may describe legal or traditional rankings, social prestige or material inequalities, as well as revolutionary or conservative social forces. ... It is therefore evident that the definition and relative size of the working class has changed significantly over the second half of the twentieth century, and the evidence of occupational class schemes might continue to demonstrate that occupational class and voting behaviour were still closely related, yet it is difficult make a strong cases to the ...

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In 1795, he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. ... In April 1803 Britain, provoked by Napoleon's aggressive behavior, resumed war with France on the seas. ... Joseph's arrival in Spain touched off a rebellion there, which became known as the Peninsular War. ... The Peninsular War cost France 300,000 casualties and incredible sums of money and contributed to the eventual weakening of the Napoleonic empire. ... Where French Revolutionary armies had passed before, overturning feudal and ecclesiastical institutions, there Napoleonic rule had a fir...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... In the sixties the "Cold War" was heating up. ... Many feel that because of Kenn...

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