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Stanley Mathews was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Ohio 23rd infantry and promoted to colonel of the 51st Ohio infantry. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on July 21st, 1824. He went to college at Keyon College that is located on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio. After he got his degree he studied law in Cincinnati. When Stanley got his law degree he moved down to Columbia, Tennessee, where Matthews took the bar.
At Gettysburg, Joshua Chamberlain made a big decision that ended up saving Little Round Top. This decision influenced not only the outcome of the battle, but the outcome of the war. His strong leadership was beneficial to the Union throughout the entire war, during various battles. After the war, he didn’t serve anymore, but he continued to make a constructive impact
In April 1775 British general Thomas Gage ordered his soldiers to destroy American rebel Military stores in Concord, Massachusetts. British and American forces clashed in Concord and Lexington starting the Revolutionary war. The New England state militias firepower forced British general William Howe to abandon Massachusetts in March 1776. A new stage in the war began in June 1776 when the British sailed into New York harbor with an army of 34,000 soldiers forcing the militia to retreat. To counter the british fleet in the harbor, David Bushnell came up with the idea to make a small craft that could slip through british waters and plant explosives on ships.
Before and after the Civil War, people loved and respected Robert E. Lee. Not because of the side he fought for, but because he was an honorable man with strong beliefs; as a general he was a fatherly leader his soldiers looked up to; and he was a very clever tactician. Although Lee fights for the Confederacy, many people greatly revered him, even to this day. Robert E. Lee showed how honorable he was when he chose to fight for his home state of Virginia over the United States. He joined the Confederacy because his “mother” state would be fighting with the Confederacy.
Chamberlain held strong even through the hardest of times, and he did it all to help his men move along. He not only mentally prepared every soldier for battle, but he also did a fantastic job leading his army on Little Round Top. “The Twentieth Maine, led by Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, valiantly repulsed a Confederate assault despite being out of ammunition. This prevented Longstreet from turning the Army of the Potomac's left” (“Gettysburg”). This shows how great of a job he did in pushing back the Confederates, which significantly influenced the overall outcome of the battle at Gettysburg.
Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee has always been thought by many as a god-like figure. To others he was a contradiction. Born on January 19, 1807 at Stratford, Virginia, Robert E. Lee was the fourth child of Revolutionary War hero, Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, and Ann Hill Carter Lee. Raised mostly by his mother, Robert learned patience, control, and discipline from her. As a young man, he was exposed to Christianity and accepted its faith.
Today, the name Samuel Adams is synonymous with a famous Boston, Massachusetts beer company. However, Samuel Adams was a man who made several contributions to help the American Colonies break free from British rule (Constitution Facts, n.d.). Adams, who was also known as “The Firebrand of The Revolution” (Constitution Facts, n.d.) is especially known for being an agitator between the American Colonist and the British (Constitution Facts, n.d.). For example, he organized several protest over the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765) (Boston Tea Party, n.d.), which were both taxations against the American Colonies instituted by the British empire. However, Adams is most famous for helping to plan and execute the political protest of the
When war broke out between the United States and Britain he was already in the army because he joined when he was 13. His leadership in that
The Civil War is known as one of the most destructive wars of the time with a total casualty rate of about 625,000 soldiers.1 The non-slave owning states, the Union, and the slave owning states, the Confederates, fought each other for power over the national government which would be the deciding factor in whether the upcoming states would or would not be slave states. Each side had its own prominent general, Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant of the Union. Many people in America today often have their opinions on who they think was the better of the two so, I’m going to ask you. Who do you think was the greatest general of the American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, or Robert E. Lee?
People’s opinion on Oliver Cromwell are either you think he is corrupt and evil or you think he is a hero and a savior to England. Oliver Cromwell starts off as a regular citizen that was married to Elizabeth Cromwell and had at least seven kids. After eight years of parenting, he decided that he wanted to become a member of parliament. The Parliament elected Oliver Cromwell in 1628, and he was in Parliament that same year.
Throughout the 1800's, men were looked at as the people who are supposed to make things better. Supposed to make things easier and problems go away smoother. One man by the name of Henry Clay was what men were supposed to be. Men were supposed to be hard working and dedicated to what they believed in so that the people around them would believe too. While being apart of the young United States government, he realized that country as a whole had to advance, and that is what he did.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” These words reflected the exact circumstance that was presented to the nation in the times leading up to the Civil War. Before there was a Union and Confederacy, the division began with just the Northern and Southern states. Not only were these regions different regarding geography, but they also had many different views about individual life in the states. One of those differences revolved around slavery.
Oliver Cromwell is today in Britain held with great merit. He is seen by many Britons as the father of modern British democracy. However, his reputation in Ireland is quite different. Cromwell only spent nine months in Ireland yet even still he is seen by many Irish people as someone who was a genocidal monster hell-bent on massacring the Irish population.
The government of the United Kingdom operates within the framework of a constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is the head of state, but it is also a unitary democracy where the prime minister is the head of government. Sir Robert Walpole WAS the first prime minister of the nation and is generally considered to be one of the greatest politicians in British history. While Prime Minister William Pitt was the first to publicly oppose the Slave Trade, another great political leader Charles Grey abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. However Grey was against women’s suffrage which ironically fuelled the movement further. Winston Churchill who served as prime minister three different times in his career is held in history as one
1. Why are you interested in participating in the Rising Phoenix Early College High School Program? I am interested in the rising phoenix program because it would benefit me a lot not only in high school but also in the future. I love challenges and especially in math and science.
