1. Unlikely Victory by Thomas Fleming
Clinton found himself unable to dissuade Gage from launching the attack on Charlestown in the Battle of Bunker Hill that contributed to high British losses. The next assault proceeded to be on Breed's Hill, the British rallied and pushed the rebels back to Bunker Hill. ...
Only a few months later, on June 17th, first major battle of the war: Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in Boston. ... The colonist perched up on the hill while 3 waves of British red coats stormed the hill. ... One victory that came out of Bunker Hill was, the colonist forces inflicted mass casualties on British Regime and caused them to retreat (Archives). ...
He also took part in the second Battle of Saratoga, Monmouth, Sullivan's raid on the Iroquois villages, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, and the surrender of Cornwallis, among others (Contemporary Literary Criticism, 25). ... Today, over eighty million copies of his novels are now in print, and according to Bantam Books, after the publication of The Man from the Broken Hills, L"Amour is their best selling author, edging out John Steinbeck and Zane Grey. ... He has received the Western Writers of America Award-Novel in 1969, for Down the Long Hills; the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award...
For this particular assignment, I chose to visit the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The worshippers that belong to this church are referred to as Mormons. I visited this church on April 27, 2003. The service was from about 9:00 a.m. until around 12:00 p.m. The particular church that I visited ...
No African-American Civil War regiment is more famous than the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. In its ranks were the sons of prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass; its colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, was the son of a prominent abolitionist family. African-American soldiers felt they had to pr...
The father of constitutional law, chief justice John Marshall played a pivotal role in the construction of democracy in the United States. Marshall was our nations fourth chief justice and is accredited with helping to establish the power of the United States Supreme Court and strongly enforcing co...
Troubled Farmers "In the first years of peacetime, following the Revolutionary War, the future of both the agrarian and commercial society appeared threatened by a strangling chain of debt which aggravated the depressed economy of the postwar years".1 This poor economy affected almost everyone i...
In the history of the United States, African Americans have always been discriminated against. When Africans first came to America, they were taken against their will and forced to work as laborers. They became slaves to the rich, greedy, lazy Americans. They were given no pay and often badly whipped and beaten. African Americans fought for their freedom, and up until the Civil War it was never given to them. ...
