Essays on French Army

Describe how Spain, England, France and Dutch’s different economies-along with their justification for expansion-shape their settlements in North America –

The colonization of North America revolves around the need for Spain, England, and Spain to conquer and control the continent. The French and the Spaniards governed through autocratic sovereigns while the English were free to govern themselves as much as they followed the English law. The biggest advantage, therefore, for the English to expand into North America was that they allowed immigration which enabled them to boost their colonial population that helped them to participate more actively and on a wide scale in agricultural activities. The English colonies were established by a royal charter and settled first in Massachusetts ...

Violent and non-violent tactics used by the FLN to wage its campaign in Algiers and the impacts that they had

The Battle of Algiers is a movie based on the 1954 – 1962 Algerian War. The battle was characterized by blood and turmoil, meaning that the obvious tactic employed was the violent kind. One of them was the killing of the police officers in the French army. Despite the prevalence of the extreme techniques, the FNL are known to have adopted some non-techniques. One of them was mass emigration, which saw the Algerians move from the French colonies in large numbers. In addition, the chose mute resistance as another non-confrontational approach to the rule. They declined to enroll in the ...

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The Algerian War – A background

The war started by France in order to maintain her colonies in Algeria in the Early 1950’s had a disastrous end in 1962, this had a great impact on both France and Algeria in terms of political and social environment and there were lot of activities that happened during this period made a history Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell (1997, 41-48).

The primary impact was on the Military Troops and Civilians of both Algeria and France, this was responsible to destroy the Fourth Republic, and decisively transformed French constitution, divided the French army and politics fir ...

Our critical biography focuses on Joan of Arc, also nicknamed as “The Maid of Orleans”. She was born in 1412 in Domremy, Bar, France. A France heroine and brave national, Joan of Arc is famously known for the way she led the French army to victory over the British at Orleans, at a young age of 18 years old. Her lifestyle was more of that of a male personality. Considering she was a teenager then, she greatly achieved the unexpected. She was later captured after one year and was burned by the English together with her French collaborators as a heretic. Later after ...

The abstract paper on Cinco de Mayo and this one that talks about the influence of the United States military on Middle East countries such as Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen have a lot of similarities. My paper talked about Cinco de Mayo; that translates to 5th of May. It is a holiday celebrated in the Mexican City of Puebla and other parts of the country including the U.S cities that have a high number of Mexicans citizens. The holiday commemorates the unlikely victory of the Mexican army over French army that was supported by Great Britain and Spain. This abstract goes ...

World War I, also known as the Great War, spanned from 1914-1918. It was also the first major contest of arms fought by large, centrally organized nation-states, which was centered in Europe, since the dawn of Industrial Revolution. It all started on one faithful day of June 28, 1914 when the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were shot by a Serbian assassin in Saravejo. The armies present in the field are 12 million Russians, 11 million Germans, nearly 8 million Austro-Hungarians, more than 8 million Frenchmen and a same number of Britons, 5 million Italians, almost 3 million ...

One of the renowned historical figures of America’s liberation efforts, George Washington, continues to hold an indelible mark about leadership many years since his time. This is because unlike many leaders, he mastered the art of servant leadership that made him lead Americans into attaining self-independence from the British colonialists. George Washington, before ascending to the glory of becoming the first president, had led his people through a devastating war of freedom. Whilst most emphasis has been put on the post-independence leadership of George Washington, he had begun providing leadership service to his troops long before ascending to presidency. ...

The battle of Verdun was one of the longest battles of the World War One (WWO). The battle, which involved the French and German armies, lasted for a period about eleven months, from around February to December 1916. Perhaps, it is called the battler of Verdun because it was fought at the Verdun-sur-Meuse hills, north-eastern region of France (Hickman, 2013). The French army, of about 300,000 men, was under the commandership of General Philippe Petain and General Robert Nivelle; while the German army, of about 150,000 men, was under the commandership of Enrich von Flaknhayn and Crown Prince ...

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Explain the relationship between a soldier’s identity and the concept of masculinity. Use an example to illustrate it. The tendency of nations to go to war against one another is a strong reason behind the existence of national military forces. Soldiers stand as the most important members of every military force since they are the ones who actively proceed in the line of battle in every war. With lives at great risk, soldiers do not resist any urges to quit the frontlines to preserve the honor they bestow on their nation. With ...

Leadership Qualities In Henry V (1989) Leadership Qualities In Henry V (1989) Film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays have been made ever since the filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the Autochrome color photography process. However, Henry V (1989) is perhaps the finest film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, and Kenneth Branagh, who directed the film, wrote the screenplay and starred in it as King Henry V himself, was critically acclaimed around the world because of the film. Since the film after all is adapted from Shakespeare’s play, so like the play it shows Henry ...

Germany, together with her allies, i.e. Austria-Hungary and Turkey, lost the First World War to France, Britain, United States of America, Italy and their allies. They began the war very strongly, winning several battles, for instance, against Russia. However, the miscalculations of their generals and her allies’ weaknesses proved costly. Moreover, the United States of America join Britain and her allies against Germany. In the end, Germany lost and on 11th of November 1918 she signed an armistice to end the First World War. In 1933, when Adolf Hitler rose to the helm of the German leadership, Sir Winston ...

Preface

The paper uses press excerpts for the year 1789 to highlight the perspectives held by different authors on the theme contained in these excerpts. This way, we are able to analyze the views of different authors on the French revolution that occurred precisely between the years 1789 to 1799. During this period, France witnessed numerous political, social, and economic changes. The nation went from being ruled by a monarchy to becoming a constitutional republic after the masses revolted against the monarchy rule blaming it for the increased taxes and cost of living. The events culminated with the execution of King Louis ...

History

United States Military Strategy and Policy 1. Describe Washington’s strategy in the American Revolution.

George Washington wore the British and their Hessian mercenaries down small battle by small battle with his Strategy of Attrition. There were practical reasons for using this strategy. The Continental Army had 220,000 but only about half of those soldiers had militia training while on the other hand the British had 162,000 well trained British troops and German mercenaries. The odds against the American revolutionaries were frightening because the New England soldiers were not an army yet when Washington arrived in ...

World War II

Background The World War II was among two conflicting alliances; allied powers and Axis powers. The allied power involved France, Britain, America, USSR and china, and the axis power were Germany, Italy and Japan. Both alliances were helped by other small nations and by the end of the war allied powers totaled to 25 Nations while axis 9 nations. The war sparked off on 1st September when Germany invaded Portland the land which had been made independent in the Versailles peace treaty. Britain and France were absent and stated their intention to help Portland unless the Germany to ...

Preface

Hundred Years’ War took place between England and France for Flanders and the French provinces of Guyenne, Normandy and Anjou, which formerly were in the possession of the English king. It had great historical significance for the development of both England and France. Governmental and cultural division of England and France took place. The British and French the feudal elite clarified their relations, and an absolute monarchy established in England and France. This paper aims at analyzing the course of events in the framework of the war and finding the lessons that can be learnt from it.

Chronology

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Introduction

During the First World War, many battles took place. One of them was the Battle of Somme which happened between 1st July and 18thof November in 1916. The battle got its name from the place where it occurred-River Somme in France. Two armies, British and French, were fighting against the Germany army. The battle was planned as French and British operation and it was an attempt to destroy German work force. Joseph Joffre who was in-charge of the French army came up with the idea, which was seconded by General Sir Douglas Haig and British Expeditionary Force commander. The ...

In every society, wars always leave economical, political and social impacts in the society whereby they took place. Some of the effects of war are long term and their presence is evident even after years of rehabilitation and attempts to restore the situations back to normal. Some of the long term effects include trauma, deaths and physical destruction of property and nature. On the other hand, other effects are short term and are only felt for a short period of time. Some of the short time effects include economical depression and crises as well as infrastructural damages, which are subject ...

During the existence of the Napoleon's French Empire there emerged a couple of revolutionary war against the regime. These wars were perpetuated by organized coalitions that had the common ain of disbanding this French Empire. One of the reasons as to why these series of opposition wars became significant is because European nations at the time had began to develop their weapons using modern technology therefore resulting in massive and large scale destruction of the affected areas. After a long struggle between the Napoleon Empire and the opposing coalitions, there was growth of a nationalistic feeling between nations as they felt the ...

Question One

Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on May 5th in all parts of the United States and also in Mexico where the real events took place. Cinco de Mayo is Spanish name that represent May fifth but in English the name is translated as the day of Puebla battle (Beans & Rawls 34). Mexico was formerly known as Puebla and this day therefore represent the day Mexican became free after overcoming the French forces which took place on May fifth 1862 (Ajoke 194). However, unlike what many people believe, Cinco de Mayo is not the Mexican independent day but an ...