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- 551: John Paul Jones
- ... name to John Paul Jones of which he was called for the rest of his life. He arrived in America just as the Revolutionary War was starting and joined the revolution effort. He was made a first lieutenant on an American ship and gradually, through his almost unbelievable successes, became captain of his own ship. He successfully completed many missions and ... that his ship was being shot to pieces and his only hope was to board the enemy. The chance came when the anchor on Serapis caught on Richard and the French marine sharpshooters that Jones had hired prevented the British from cutting it free. Because the American flag had been shot down, Captain Pearson hailed to ask if they were surrendering ...
- 552: Oliver Cromwell
- ... Spain. He sent a naval expedition to the Spanish West Indies, and in 1655 conquered Jamaica. As the price for sending a fleet to Spanish Flanders to fight alongside the French he obtained possession of the port of Dunkirk. He also interested himself in Scandinavian affairs; although he admired King Charles X of Sweden, his first consideration in attempting to mediate ... s first Parliament met he justified the establishing of the Protectorate as "healing and settling" the nation after the civil wars. Arguing that his government had prevented anarchy and social revolution, he was particularly critical of the Levellers who, he said, wished to destroy well-tested institutions "whereby England hath been known for hundreds of years." He believed that they undermined ...
- 553: American Republican Ideology
- ... would need a special form of discipline, as well as a unique individual to lead it. George Washington became the man for this job. Having past military experience in the French and Indian War, as well as political experience in the Virginia House of Burgesses, he was to make an ideal general for the task at hand. Throughout his military duties ... be no way for him or his army to grow beyond the smallest size necessary. Washington was faced with many difficulties, however, in his term of military service during the Revolution. He had to respect the personal liberties his soldiers possessed as Americans, as well as keep some form of effective discipline, and constantly plead with Congress for essential equipment for ...
- 554: Thomas Edison
- ... stylus. In December 1877 Edison unveiled the tinfoil phonograph, which replaced the strip of paper wrapped in tinfoil. Many people would not believe what they were hearing including a leading French scientist who declared it to be a trick device of a ventriloquist. The public’s amazement was quickly followed by universal approval. Edison became famous all around the world and ... American in the world. When he died he was the venerated and mourned as the man who, more than any other, had laid the basis for the technological and social revolution of the modern electrical world.
- 555: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a material brain, and giving animals all ... threat to the authority and basis of command of the monarchy. Further, the upsetting of the balance of social power and elimination of the status quo may lead to a revolution by the lower levels of the social strata and an anarchical breakdown of class structure. The businessmen and nobles might be overtaken by the mobs of the have-nots and ...
- 556: Alexander Hamilton
- ... his birth is still argued among scholars. They believe that he was born sometime in between 1755 and 1756 but the exact date is unknown. His mother, a Huguenot or French catholic, was named Rachel Faucett lavien. His Father was a Scotsman named James Hamilton. His father abandoned him along with his brother James and his mom in 1765. The first ... have long fact finding missions before he came to a decision. Hamilton in his new home in New York could not pick up his newspaper without finding articles about the revolution. He would find both pro and con articles. It was not long before Hamilton put his two cents into the whole matter. After reading a pamphlet written by a loyalist ...
- 557: Eighteenth Century Philosophers
- Eighteenth Century Philosophers After the French Revolution many men began a search for a utopian society, one which would allow justice and happiness for all who resided there. It was not only a search for these men ...
- 558: Charles Dickens
- ... of Two Cities (1859) was the second of his most famous novels. It is set in London and Paris and tells of the heroism of fictional Sidney Caron during the French Revolution. Critics don’t highly rank this book. In Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens returned to his light-hearted sense of humor. This novel tells of an unknown person who provides ...
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