While the causes of the Seventh Frontier War can be attributed to increasing tension and friction caused by murders, cattle raiding, racism, cultural differences, mutual distrust, misunderstanding and the hunger for land, it is called the "War of the Axe" because the theft of an axe by a leader named 'Tsili' from a store in Fort-Beaufort sparked the conflict. ... This incident sparked off another war, one that saw the British and Colonial forces suffer a serious defeat, losing more than 60 heavily laden wagons at the Battle of Boomer Pass. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, the realities behind the life of a slave throughout the 1800's are brought to life in astonishing detail as Douglass recaps the transition of his life from being born a slave in Maryland to settling as a free man in New Bedford, Ma...

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Castlereagh faced an immensely complex task during a period of revolutionary fervour throughout Europe sparked by the example of Napoleonic France - which was still potentially the greatest of all the European powers even though Napoleon had been overthrown. ...

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In America, we are privileged to live in such a place where our religion is not put on trial and who or what one believes in is not reason to ignite violence on such an extreme stage. In the movie Gandhi, India is revealed much like the United States was during the Civil Rights Movements, a country...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Grade Level: High School

English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. England has b...

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Reading Anglo-Irish relations into great depth lately has given me a very clear choice of topic for this essay, which is The Great Famine. I believe there is no other event of the same magnitude in Irish history, thus I believe the effects of the Famine were huge, both in the short and long-term. I have chosen this topic specifically because of the way it injured the Irish population and created antipathy for over a century between the Irish and the British. In this essay, I will focus on the impact of lack of British help as well as the reaction of the Irish towards the British as well as con...

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Making Race and Nation In the book Making Race and Nation by Anthony Marx, he compares the development of three different countries which were major active members in the slave trade late into there development and into the modern era.. Marx compares South Africa, Brazil and The United States. Marx's Thesis devises that each Nation though similar in the slave trade developed differently based on the control of an elite few, who in order to control the country economically and politically used the basis of race to divide or unite people to there advantage. Using historical eviden...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School