The French including Marquette and Joliet, La Salle as well as De Tonti, had several roles in Arkansas from the 1600s to the 1780s. In 1673, Marquette and Joliet came down the Mississippi River and crossed over to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Their role in Arkansas during the 1600s was to find a route to the Orient countries, but they were not successful in finding the route. They found that the Mississippi River led down to the Gulf of Mexico. However, the two explorers did stop in an Indian village near what is present day Helena, Arkansas.…
During the Civil War our nation was split between the North and South. Just like any other war in history each side was trying to get an upper hand on the other, even if it was illegal. Many wars through history had illegal warfare and tactics that was used to win the war. One would wonder what could be used in the Civil War that was illegal in warfare at the time? The answer was submarines, yes submarines, which was not a widely known warfare tactic until World War II with the German U-Boats. These underwater crafts were first documented in 1623 by Dutchman Cornelius Drebbel. It was built for pleasure and not warfare at the time. It was not until 1654 that the first submarine was built for warfare. It was called Rotterdam Boat, it was seventy…
American Civil War The American Civil War started in April 12, 1861. During this time artillery pieces were rapidly developed from smooth bores to bores with rifling. Rifling was first invented in the late 1850s The United States Army had started experimenting and implementing bore rifling at the start of the American Civil War. It was believed that two-thirds of the confederate armies light howitzers where taken from the union forces.…
After securing Atlanta for the Union General Sherman had orders to destroy Confederate General Hood’s army, “Sherman left a corps to hold Atlanta and pursued Hood with the rest of his army” (McPherson 808). Eventually Sherman got tired of chasing Hood and wanted to “ignore Hood and march through the heart of Georgia to the coast” (McPherson 808). “I could cut a swath through to the sea, he assured Grant, divide the Confederacy in two, and come up on…
Only the highlights of their numerous exploits are told here. Rangers primarily performed defensive missions until Benjamin Church’s Company of Independent Rangers from Plymouth Colony proved successful in raiding hostile Indians during King Phillip’s War in 1675. In 1756, Major Robert Rogers, a native of New Hampshire, recruited nine companies of American colonists to fight for the British during the French and Indian War. Ranger techniques and methods of operation were an inherent characteristic of the American frontiersmen; however, Major Rogers was the first to capitalize on them and incorporate them into the fighting doctrine of a permanently organized fighting force. The method of fighting used by the first Rangers was further developed during the Revolutionary War by Colonel Daniel Morgan, who organized a unit known as “Morgan’s Riflemen”. According to General Burgoyne, Morgan’s men were “….the most famous corps of the Continental Army, all of them crack shots.” Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox,” organized another famous Revolutionary War Ranger element known as “Marion’s Partisans.” Marion’s Partisans, numbering anywhere from a handful to several hundred, operated both with and independent of other elements of General Washington’s Army. Operating out of the Carolina swamps, they disrupted British communications and prevented the organization of loyalists to support the British cause, substantially contributing to the American victory. The American Civil War was again the occasion for the creation of special units such as Rangers. John S. Mosby, a master of the prompt and skillful use of cavalry, was one of the most outstanding Confederate Rangers. He believed that by resorting to aggressive action he could compel his enemies to guard a hundred points. He would then attack one of the weakest points and be assured numerical superiority. With America’s entry into the Second World War, Rangers…
The United States Central Intelligence Agency armed and trained an anti-Sandinista Guerrilla force based in the neighboring countries of Honduras and Costa Rica called the "Contras." (Corn) These Contras began a…
The Civil War started April 12,1861 with the attack on Fort Sumter. It was a war fought to preserve the Union and to free the slaves in the South. The North was more justified then the South for fighting the civil war because president Abraham Lincoln was trying to abolish slavery and bring the Union back together. The South was trying to keep slavery because without it there would be no one to pick the cotton, and that at the time was how the South made money.…
The Civil War began when the confederate nation invaded Fort Sumter in South Carolina on…
There were many events that triggered the Civil war. The Civil War was fought between the southern states and the northern states. The war started in April of 1861 and ended in May of 1865. The Northerners had about 22 million soldiers, while the Southerners only had about 9 million soldiers. That having been said, The Northerners had over twice as many soldiers as the Southerners.…
The origins of the Civil War can be found at the time of Thomas Jefferson when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Although Jefferson wouldn't know that this would start a war a hundred years after he wrote them, they were used in debates by both supporters and combatants of slavery. However, slavery was only a part of the reason that the Civil War happened. Other factors such as economic differences between the northern and southern states, government influence and population also contributed to the beginning of the war. The war did not break out until all these things broke the southerners back and they decided to…
When the Civil War began in 1861 it began for many political reasons all of the reasons were affected by slavery, but the war was not entirely about slavery. It is a belief that President Lincoln and the north started the war because they were fighting for slavery, but this common belief in not completely true. They fought to protect the Union. Because of the willingness of the African Americans to fight in the war they changed the idea of slavery and new reasons for the fighting of one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the world. African Americans changed the Civil War, consequently changing the world as we know it.…
On April 12, 1861, the Confederacy declared war against the Union because both the South and the North had different outtakes on U.S problems. The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865, but along the way it caused lots of geographic changes. Although it ended four years later, many problems damaged both sides of the United States, especially the South. Southern women faced starvation and poverty when their husbands and sons, who took care of the farms, went away to war. In the South, there were many riots by women demanding for supplies to provide for their families during this time. The Union would often steal crops and livestock from the South, causing the Southerners to have no food to give to their families.…
To provide a common starting point, it is first necessary to agree upon terms. Dr. James Kiras, a SAASS professor and SOCOM irregular warfare subject matter expert, defines irregular warfare as “primarily about politics and organization.” The US commonly associates irregular warfare…
The Quapaw, Caddo and Osage were three tribes that occupied lands in Arkansas when the Europeans arrived in the early 1500's. All three tribes were very similar and different in other ways. In the end all three tribes today live on different reservations around the country and still struggle to keep their culture, history and memories alive.…
Guerilla Groups: guerrilla movements claim to be fighting for the rights of the poor in Colombia to protect them from government violence and to provide social justice through socialism…