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- 221: Benedict Arnold
- Benedict Arnold The name Benedict Arnold has become a synonym for a traitor to one's country. In the first years of the American Revolution, however, Arnold was a brilliant and dashing general, highly respected for his service to the patriot cause (see Revolution, American). Benedict Arnold was born on Jan. 14, 1741, in Norwich, Conn. His father, Benedict, was a well-to-do landowner. His mother was Hannah King Waterman Arnold. While a boy, young Arnold twice ran away to join the colonial troops fighting in the French and Indian War. When he was 21 he settled in New Haven. In time he became a prosperous merchant and a captain in the Connecticut militia. He married Margaret ...
- 222: Fidel Castro's Reign In Cuba
- ... bitterly and sweepingly attacked the relations of the United States government with Batista and his regime".(3) He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 ... Cuban agricultural land to state ownership would take place".(5) Such a notion then would have been inconsistent with many of the Castro pronouncements, including the theory of a peasant revolution and the pledges to the landless throughout the nation. Today most of the people who expected to become independent farmers or members of cooperatives in the operation of which they ... by the councils. (10) Two events that provided fuel for the Castro propaganda furnace stand out. These are the "bombing" of Havana on October 21 and the explosion of the French munitions ship La Coubre on March 4, 1960.(11) On the evening of October 21 the former captain of the rebel air force, Captain Dian-Lanz, flew over Havana ...
- 223: George Washington
- ... the scars from the disease for the rest of his life. Fortunately this experience gave him immunity to the disease, which was later to kill colonial troops during the American Revolution. Lawrence died in 1752. George soon inherited the beautiful home Mount Vernon, in Fairfax County, one of six farms then held by the Washington family interests. Also, the death of ... then without military experience. In November 1752 Governor Robert Dinwiddie appointed him assistant of the southern district of Virginia. During the following summer, Virginia was shocked by reports that a French trip from Canada was establishing posts on the headwaters of the Ohio River and seeking to make treaties with the Native American peoples. Governor Dinwiddie received orders from Britain to demand an immediate French withdrawal, and Major Washington on time volunteered to carry the governor’s message to the French commander. His desire at this time was to secure the royal preference for ...
- 224: Conquests Napoleon Made Domestically As Well As Militarily
- ... new combinations---that is life." -Napoleon Bonaparte- On August 15, 1769 Napoleone Buonaparte, future emperor of France was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. An avid disciple of Rousseau, Napoleon joined the French Military, and slowly began to work his way to esteemed positions. Later, as General Bonaparte, Napoleon defeated much of Europe in an effort to take over the world. He was ... years. However, Napoleon did leave France dramatic changes in the legal system, government administration, economic affairs, and the education system. To begin with, Napoleon instituted many significant changes to the French government. In the area of law and justice, he created the Napoleonic Code. This did many things for the citizens of France, such as declaring all men equal before the ... s produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence." Also, the Code gave France a single and coherent system of law, something that the Age of Enlightenment and the Revolution had tried but failed to do. Within that law, the people had the right to choose their own religion and occupation. To show France that he was open to ...
- 225: Hitler's Life
- ... awkward boy who liked to read and draw but was very lazy in school. In 1903, when he returned from summer vacation, things got worse. Hitler still failing math and French gave up and stared behaving badly. Playing pranks and jokes on the teachers he hated. Even years later as Fuher, Hitler still liked his pranks and would tell them to ... 15, he received the Catholic Sacrament of Confirmation in the Linz Cathedral. But he was now bored and uninterested in faith. After this he took a make-up exam on French and passed on one condition—if he would leave. He went another school in Steyr, a small town 25 miles from Linz. There, him and others shot rats for entertainment ... took four to equal a U.S. dollar. After the bill, it became seventy-five marks to one U.S. dollar. The Germans didn’t pay their payments and the French took over the industrial part of Germany. The mark fell to 18,000 to the dollar. By July, 1923, it was 160,000, by August 1,000,000, and ...
- 226: Adolf Hitler
- ... to do. When the job ended, Hitler went back to Munich, where he was offered a more challenging job due to his great dislike for the Communists who were provoking revolution in cities throughout Germany. In this assignment, Hitler was given the task of keeping a close watch on individual groups, which could have been a threat to the military of ... had over 150,000 members, all drawn by the exciting rallies and the hatred of Jews. During this same year, the Ruhr, an important mining region was occupied by the French troops. This action was taken, because it was during this year that Germany failed to pay debts and damages to France. This invasion by France angered many Germans who were ... many Germans, these groups did seem like plausible excuses for their troubles. On November 8, 1923, five years after the Germany's defeat, Hitler chos! e the moment for a revolution. At a beer hall in Bavaria, he attempted to seize power in the Beer Hall Putsch, where he failed to gain power, but where he gains national recognition for ...
- 227: Feminism
- ... she wrote the Thoughts on the Education of Daughters and in 1790 published A Vindication of the Rights of Man as a response to the goals brought fourth by the French revolution. However Wolstonecraft owes much of her fame to her feminist social study A Vindication of the Rights of Women. In this work Wollstonecraft addressed the legal, economic and educational disabilities ... of Women were widespread in 18th century England. But it is necessary to review the political background of these times. Wollstonecraft was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, the French and American revolution, and interacted in the intellectual circles that included, Paine, Burke, Rousseau, and Voltaire. It is important to remember that the French Revolution began in 1789, and ...
- 228: Mexico
- ... the Maya, Aztec, and Toltecs, and by Spanish and mestizo farmers and laborers; each of these heritages has enriched the regional culture. In the cities both European, particularly Spanish and French, and other North American influences are evident. Most contemporary Mexican artists are striving to produce identifiably Mexican work that blends Spanish, Native American, and modern European styles. Literature Mexican writing ... motifs, is found throughout Mexico. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first during the short reign of the Habsburg emperor Maximilian and later under President Porfirio Díaz, the French splendors of the second Empire style were introduced into the capital. Díaz also commissioned the ornate Palace of Fine Arts, completed in the 1930s. Since 1945 an architectural renaissance has ... New Spain were weakening the link between the colony and the parent country. To these internal conditions was added the importation of liberal political ideas from Europe, particularly after the French Revolution of 1789. The occupation of Spain by Napoleon eventually resulted in the Mexican war for independence. Disorganized by the disaster that had overtaken the home government, the administrative ...
- 229: Imperialism
- ... it seemed logical to move into, or develop areas in Africa, China, and India, since they were rich with resources that could benefit European countries. The coming of the industrial revolution caused a large increase in the need of raw materials for use by England, and France. These countries found that there were valuable 'veins' of resources availiable in India and ... exceed its imports. A profitable balance of trade, it was believed, would provide the wealth necessary to maintain and expand the empire. After ultimately successful wars with the Dutch, the French, and the Spanish in the seventeenth century, Britain managed to acquire most of the eastern coast of North America, the St. Lawrence basin in Canada, territories in the Carribean, stations ... in Africa changed drastically, for several reasons. Probably the greatest reason the British annexed land in Africa after 1869 was to protect their biggest money maker: India. In 1869 the French completed the Suez canal in Egypt. This was a quick route to India, but if another country had control of the canal, the possibility existed that they would cut ...
- 230: The Sedition Act of 1798
- ... by landowners in the South. These issues as well as neutrality issues between France, England, and the United States were the catalyst for the forming of the Republican Party. The French and English conflict caused many problems with America's political system. The English "Order of Council" and the French "Milan Decree" wreaked havoc with America's shipping and led to Jay's Treaty of 1794. Jay's Treaty was advantageous to America and helped to head off a war with Britain, but it also alienated the French. The French reacted by seizing American ships causing the threat of war to loom large in American minds. President Adams sent three commissioners to France to work out a ...
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