Central and SouFive continentsSettlersColoniesColonizationRevolutionary WarTribesColonists17751763CarolinaEuropeansSavagesAfricaStruggleConflictHandfulInhabitantsHistoryIndigenousPopulationsVastManifest destinyFrench20th centuryNativeLandsWestwardRootsFateIndependenceTribeHistorianWhitesPeoplesUltimatelyNationsSettlementsPreserveGeronimoGreatSpanishDramaticHeritageCivil WarDrivenWestTimeControlSlavesRaidsAmerica'sPeopleWarsEstablishmentResistanceArmyWhiteLargestPower
Central and Sou1
- Canine rabies remains enzootic in many areas of the world, including Africa, parts of Central and South America, and Asia. (cdc.gov)
Five continents3
- Fought on five continents, and actually lasting more than seven years, the conflict officially began in 1756, when Britain declared war on France. (archivesfoundation.org)
- The aim of the Cancer in Five Continents series is to present data appeared. (who.int)
- Every effort has been made to Cancer Incidence in Five Continents are presented in Table 1.2. (who.int)
Settlers12
- It is hard to accurately document the total number of tribes that were present in North America when the first European settlers made the trip across the Atlantic Ocean. (teach-nology.com)
- Expansion - The history of Native Americans can be looked at as an experiment in both expansion and lack of understanding from the European settlers. (teach-nology.com)
- It is hard to understand what was going on in the minds of the American settlers especially the ones migrating from the original 13 Eastern Colonies westward all the way to California. (teach-nology.com)
- If every single Native American warrior from every North American tribe would have joined forces during the first conflict with the European settlers, quite possibly America and Canada would be quite different locations. (teach-nology.com)
- To keep their claims in the trans-Appalachian area (the area of land that stretched west from the crest of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River), early settlers fought almost constantly with Indians. (encyclopedia.com)
- The American settlers had only their own strength and skill with a flintlock rifle or an ax for protection. (encyclopedia.com)
- The Anglo-American settlers' violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded the boundaries of the thirteen colonies into unceded Native territories. (monthlyreview.org)
- In the course of that war, Anglo-American settlers intensified their use of counterinsurgent violence, which the Anglo settler elite dubbed "savage wars," against Indigenous peoples' resistance to their incursions into the territories of the Ottawa, Miami, Kickapoo, and the confederations identified with Pontiac's leadership of the Great Lakes region, spreading to the Illinois and Ohio countries. (monthlyreview.org)
- American settlers were already pushing into the west along the Oregon Trail, disturbing bison herds, polluting streams, spreading deadly germs and killing Indians. (smithsonianmag.com)
- He had blocked railroad surveys, killed invading settlers and inspired his fellow warriors in the Battle of Red Buttes, the Fetterman Fight, the Wagon Box Fight and many other hostile encounters with the U.S. Army. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. (americanheritage.com)
- At one time the Apaches had been allowed to hunt off the reservation, but settlers were afraid of the armed Indians and the practice was stopped. (nativepartnership.org)
Colonies10
- Laboratories of Western democracy were founded in Britain's colonies in Australasia from the mid-19th centuries, while South America largely created new autocracies. (wikipedia.org)
- As the British colonies on the eastern seaboard grew ever more crowded in the mid-1700s, colonists began to look westward, beyond the Appalachian Mountains , and imagine the incredible riches the continent had to offer. (encyclopedia.com)
- The rapid population growth in the American colonies during the 1700s motivated colonists to move west. (encyclopedia.com)
- The iconic colonial protest slogan "taxation without representation is tyranny" marked the surge of rebellion against British control, but it did not tell the whole story, considering what the tax was for: to pay the cost of housing, feeding, and transporting soldiers to contain and suppress the colonies from expanding further into Indian territory. (monthlyreview.org)
- More than two decades before the Revolution broke out, a group of Americans voted on a scheme to unite the colonies. (americanheritage.com)
- In the beginning, the colonies were, after all, British, and France was trying to establish its own empire on the North American continent at the same time that Britain was. (archivesfoundation.org)
- Most of them returned to France or settled in the southern coastal American colonies of South Carolina or Georgia, but after about 1760, many of them began to return to the French-controlled colonies of Louisiana and some of the Caribbean islands. (archivesfoundation.org)
- Similarly, Thomas Jefferson wrote the "Declaration of Independence," which officially declared the American colonies' independence from Britain. (proprofs.com)
- By the 1750s, the population of Britain's colonies in North America was over 1 million. (battlefields.org)
- The questions, primarily based on U.S. history, together tell the story of how the 13 colonies fought against Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, how the U.S. Constitution came to be, and how the federal government was formed by the founding fathers including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, and James Madison. (lite987.com)
Colonization1
- Generally speaking, the native people were not able to resist the Spanish colonization of North America. (custom-essay.org)
Revolutionary War5
- On this expedition, he became acquainted with others who would also play larger parts in the American Revolutionary War: George Washington, Francis Marion, and Hugh Mercer, among others. (revwartalk.com)
- In the period leading up to the American Revolutionary War, he became one of the most outspoken of the anti-American members. (revwartalk.com)
- Many men, both American and British, who would serve in the Revolutionary War found themselves engulfed in the struggle. (battlefields.org)
- The American Heritage History of the American Revolution is the complete chronicle of the Revolutionary War told in full detail. (americanheritage.com)
- After the French and Indian Wars were over, Britain and the United States faced off against each other in what came to be the Revolutionary War. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
Tribes7
- There are among our Settlements several small Tribes of Indians, consisting only of some few families each: but those Tribes of Indians which we, on account of their being numerous and having lands of their own, call Nations are all of them situated on the Western Side of this Province, and at various distances as I have already mentioned. (rug.nl)
- Rolfe recognized that Powhatan is the leader of a massive confederacy of thousands American Indians and thousands of tribes. (ostatic.com)
- All of these Native Americans can trace their history back to their respective Indian tribes from both of these countries. (teach-nology.com)
- The Native American Indians deeply respected this animal for not only it's meat but also as a spiritual being that was revered by all the tribes that came in contact with this wonderful animal. (teach-nology.com)
- Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be: a sparsely settled, wild home where Indian tribes could thrive, or a more densely populated extension of the America to the east of the Mississippi. (prince-books.com)
- Despite the name of the war in North America, all American Indian tribes did not align themselves with the French. (archivesfoundation.org)
- The Wabanaki Confederacy, whose peoples lived for the most part in New France, did fight mostly for the French, but the Iroquois Confederacy sided mostly with the British, and many other tribes took different sides, remained neutral or switched sides, as they deemed most beneficial to their people. (archivesfoundation.org)
Colonists4
- The cry of the colonists in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Revolution was centered around what key phrase? (proprofs.com)
- This phrase encapsulates the main grievance of the colonists leading up to the American Revolution. (proprofs.com)
- In a speech early in 1775, he remarked that the colonists "…could not fight…", and declared that he could "go from one end of America to other and geld all the males. (revwartalk.com)
- Swept up in the struggle were the inhabitants of New France, the British colonists, the Native Americans, and regular troops from France and Britain. (battlefields.org)
17751
- By the summer of 1775, he was returned to active service, and Colonel Grant was ordered to America. (revwartalk.com)
17633
- After a series of battlefield losses in North America, including a notable one led by a young George Washington, the British finally defeated the French, and the war ended with the Treaty of Paris in February 1763. (archivesfoundation.org)
- When the war was over, the regiment was disbanded in America in 1763. (revwartalk.com)
- It ended in 1763 with the removal of French power from North America and India. (roadville.com)
Carolina4
- Governor Glen of South Carolina recognized the role of the Indian nations in the contest among the outposts of Spanish, French, and English dominions. (rug.nl)
- Queen turns to Sir Walter Raleigh, who established Roanoke Island Settlement (North Carolina) in 1585. (ostatic.com)
- now named Fort Pitt) after 1760 and Scotch-Irish farmers from North Carolina moved into eastern Tennessee around 1771. (encyclopedia.com)
- The setting is a North Carolina restaurant. (archivesfoundation.org)
Europeans2
- North American Indians fought among one another long before Europeans arrived on the continent. (historynet.com)
- After the French and Indian Wars were over, Europeans turned their eyes to the north American continent. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
Savages1
- It is the same system who told us that Christopher Columbus discovered America, that the American Indians were ignorant savages, and that the civil war was fought to free slaves. (thelibertybeacon.com)
Africa2
- The lands of North and South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand became first part of European empires and then home to new Western nations, while Africa and Asia were largely carved up between Western powers. (wikipedia.org)
- refers to people born outside Africa who have ancestors from that continent and whose history is related to forced migrations and diaspora (dispersion of ethnic groups). (bvsalud.org)
Struggle5
- It was Saturday, September 15, 1759, in the midst of the French and Indian War, the titanic struggle between the French and British empires for dominion over North America. (americanheritage.com)
- Quebec's political history has been marked by the struggle to preserve its French and Catholic roots on a North American continent where the majority of the population is and has been English-speaking. (icomos.org)
- Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray, from the early division between the North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops. (americanheritage.com)
- The struggle was known in North America as the French and Indian War and spread around the world as the Seven Years' War. (roadville.com)
- Noted historian Walter R. Borneman brings to life an epic struggle for a continent-what Samuel Eliot Morison called "truly the first world war"-and emphasizes how the seeds of discord sown in its aftermath would take root and blossom into the American Revolution. (politics-prose.com)
Conflict5
- It was a war on such a great scale that the conflict on American soil-the confusingly named French and Indian War-was an offshoot of a much bigger war: the Seven Years' War. (archivesfoundation.org)
- westward expansion was a tumultuous period in American History that included periods of conflict with the Native Americans and Hispanics and increased in sectionalism that created the backdrop for the Civil War. (123helpme.com)
- westward expansion created periods of conflict with native americans and other nations. (123helpme.com)
- It was a conflict that pitted two of history's greatest empires, Great Britain and France, against each other for control of the North American continent. (battlefields.org)
- While the major fighting occurred in New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, and Nova Scotia, the conflict had far greater implications overseas and ignited the Seven Years' War worldwide. (battlefields.org)
Handful2
- Please see below only a handful of the Native American Indian tribal names so that you may become familiar with some of the people's that once roamed free in this great land that is now the United States of America and Canada. (teach-nology.com)
- Today the White men feel guilt for slavery and for having taken America from the handful of Indians who once roamed the great North American continent. (flawlesslogic.com)
Inhabitants1
- Wrested from the American Indians who were its original inhabitants, Quebec became first a French, then a British colony, and finally a part of the Canadian confederation. (icomos.org)
History20
- He gave as the stated purpose of his book the presentation of "the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it," hence the book's subtitle, An Indian History of the American West . (historynet.com)
- I wanted to write something epic-that is to say, to cover a large swath of American history. (historynet.com)
- The history of Native Americans is as old as the continent of North America . (teach-nology.com)
- Divide and Conquer - The history of Native Americans can be summed up in three simple words, divide and conquer. (teach-nology.com)
- Interesting history for readers and a worthy recounting of the war between Native and Anglo Americans that was fought as western expansion after the Civil War was undertaken. (prince-books.com)
- Brands writes a book that no one can set aside if the reader wants to understand two of the leading figures in American history. (prince-books.com)
- Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was a historian and professor who wrote on military history, presidential history, and American expansion and foreign policy. (americanheritage.com)
- During its progress reputations were made that will live for ever in American history, and many remarkable men came to the front. (fullbooks.com)
- Encyclopedia of American history: Expansion and reform, 1813-1855, 4, Retrieved August 14, 2008, from Facts on File: American History Online database. (123helpme.com)
- Retrieved August 14, 2008, from Facts on File: American History Online database. (123helpme.com)
- Encyclopedia of American history: Expansion and reform, 1813-1855, 4. (123helpme.com)
- The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet widely forgotten, events in American history. (battlefields.org)
- They also cover U.S. history through World War I and II, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and 9/11, as well as great American leaders including Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. Some questions require knowledge of the Democratic and Republican parties and the U.S. Congress. (lite987.com)
- Explorers in the late 15th, 16th, nad early 17th centuries began the European phase of American history. (salemwitchtrials.com)
- Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American history. (americanheritage.com)
- Enrolling in a course about western history in any online university will allow you to explore the impact that European expansion had on the development of North American society. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
- A class about early western history can touch on such diverse subjects as cowboy boots and the Cherokee Indians, to the life of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
- An example of a class on western history online would teach students about the Trail of Tears, because it is one of the most dramatic parts of American history. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
- If you want a glimpse into the past of this great nation, read America history. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
- The trend towards the internationalisation of psychology has led to the history of American psychology being supplemented by other local histories. (bvsalud.org)
Indigenous5
- The only real indigenous peoples of North America are the Native Indians. (teach-nology.com)
- The truth is that no one who is alive today was alive during the battle with the Indians and the resulting forced reservation living accommodations for these original indigenous Native Americans. (teach-nology.com)
- That was the goal of independence, with both the seasoned Indian killers of the Revolutionary Army and white settler-rangers/militias using extreme violence against Indigenous noncombatants with the goal of total domination. (monthlyreview.org)
- Just as Roman Catholic Jesuit mercenaries destroyed the indigenous population of two continents, burning every remnant of their historical publications, so too did they melt their stolen gold and silver into ingots, and ship it back to Spain. (thelibertybeacon.com)
- You could actually stand up and fight for them… and as I would come to see in later years, all Indian people, all Indigenous People, all human beings of good heart. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
Populations3
- Wado - One thing each and every American and Canadian can say to the surviving Indian tribal populations is wado which means thank you in the Cherokee native tongue. (teach-nology.com)
- The diseases brought to the American continent that helped to nearly destroy the native populations is one example of that exchange. (salemwitchtrials.com)
- The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, and it would ultimately decide the fate of the entire North American continent-not just for Great Britain and France but also for the Spanish and Native American populations. (politics-prose.com)
Vast4
- But in trying to correct the vast record of injustice done the American Indians, he went too far in the other direction. (historynet.com)
- The program of expansion and the wars against Native American civilization and the agricultural societies of the vast valley of the Ohio River and the Great Lakes region began before the Declaration with the French and Indian War of 1754-63, which was the North American extension of the Seven Years' War between France and Britain in Europe. (monthlyreview.org)
- The main features of this environment are a harsh climate, a vast territory, the relatively recent establishment of a North American civilization that is European in origin, the French fact, Catholicism and a particular pattern of human settlement. (icomos.org)
- In the late 1950s, however, to implement their inhuman policy, the United States government cut off the reservations' already meager supply of food and commodities-the pitiful little "payment" they had promised the Indians in their treaties to recompense Indians for all the vast and holy continent they'd stolen. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
Manifest destiny1
- the U.S. had manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence to the free development of our yearly multiplying millions' (¶2). (123helpme.com)
French15
- The Cherokees were generally more friendly with the English, but the other two Indian nations were dominated by the Spanish and French. (rug.nl)
- The Chickesaws live at the distance of near Eight hundred miles from Charles-Town: they have bravely stood their ground against the repeated attacks of the French and their Indians: but are now reduced to Two or Three hundred men. (rug.nl)
- The Chactaw Nation of Indians is situated at a somewhat greater distance from us, and have till within this year or two been in the Interest of the French, by whom they were reckoned to be the most numerous of any nation of Indians in America, and said to consist of many Thousand Men. (rug.nl)
- 1600s, French finds there's not a Northwest Passage, but a massive amount of land and the fur trade happening in the North. (ostatic.com)
- Gallant exploits against long odds helped the American militia capture the famous French citadel. (americanheritage.com)
- So how did we go from all-out war to the French helping us fight for our freedom and giving us one of the most iconic symbols of our nation? (archivesfoundation.org)
- When France began expanding its empirical ambitions into the Ohio River Valley, Britain launched what became the Seven Years' War, called the French and Indian War in North America. (archivesfoundation.org)
- In Louisiana, their name, "Acadians," was gradually changed to "Cajun," and their French culture melded with Spanish, Native American and African American cultures to create one of the greatest of all American traditions, especially in and around New Orleans. (archivesfoundation.org)
- By 1757, Grant was a major of the 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders), fighting in the French and Indian War. (revwartalk.com)
- Having no wilderness experience, he was ambushed himself by Indians and French on September 14, 1758. (revwartalk.com)
- The French and Indian War is unique, because the fighting began in North America and spread to the rest of the world. (battlefields.org)
- What was it that both sides wanted to obtain during the French and Indian War? (battlefields.org)
- English settlements were subject to brutal raids by French forces and their Indian allies. (archivemore.com)
- During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. (archivemore.com)
- It was also a century of political upheaval with the new political ideas of the Enlightenment culminating in the American and French Revolutions. (archivemore.com)
20th century1
- Around the turn of the 20th century, Short Feather, an Oglala elder, told an American anthropologist that Oglalas of Crazy Horse's period had been "more like the Great Spirits than any other of mankind. (smithsonianmag.com)
Native18
- This review will not touch upon a very sensitive subject concerning the treatment of the Native Americans by the groups of white men but it is important to realize what happened to the Native American people. (teach-nology.com)
- In the year 2008 there are more than 4 million Native American individuals both in the Continental United States and Canada . (teach-nology.com)
- Great Plains Buffalo - The Native Americans of North America utilized their natural resources in a manner that has never been duplicated on the North American continent. (teach-nology.com)
- What the Native Americans had created with their 100% utilization of the buffalo from snout to tail was almost completely destroyed by the arrival of rifle sharpshooting hunters. (teach-nology.com)
- What we do know is that the entire continent that Americans call home was once all Native American Indians. (teach-nology.com)
- Respectful People - To say that the Native American Indians were mistreated is a fair statement and one that can be expanded upon with open discussion and relevant factual information. (teach-nology.com)
- The Native American Indians acted as any other population of people would have done when their beloved land and food sources as well as natural resources were being taken from them. (teach-nology.com)
- The pride of the Native American Indian for family, tribe and earth is spectacular and inspiring. (teach-nology.com)
- As it stands the Native Americans now have very important rights that are only superseded by certain United States and Canadian Federal laws. (teach-nology.com)
- If given the choice between being free or living on reservations the Native American Indians would have certainly selected choice number one. (teach-nology.com)
- Many allied themselves with Native Americans to learn more about the wilderness they roamed. (encyclopedia.com)
- the eastern half of the continent was "ethnically cleansed" of Native nations by 1850, through forced relocation to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi. (monthlyreview.org)
- Perhaps no Native American is more admired for military acumen than the Lakota leader. (smithsonianmag.com)
- The Lakota Nation had launched a concentrated expansion into the Trans-Mississippi West and was fighting several other Native nations over pasturelands, river valleys and trading privileges. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Analyzes the impact of western expansion on domestic policy, including the dealing with the native americans. (123helpme.com)
- Stuck in the middle were the Native Americans, and many of them, like the Iroquois, were effective in commercially pitting Britain and France against each other all the while remaining a "neutral" nation. (battlefields.org)
- Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. (csum.edu)
- Strong, self-sufficient Native American communities. (nativepartnership.org)
Lands1
- During the last years of the Eisenhower administration a resolution was passed by Congress to "terminate" all Indian reservations and "relocate" Indians off their lands and into the cities. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
Westward4
- These excursions provided maps of the continent and prompted many to flock westward and settle all worthy territory. (encyclopedia.com)
- The Declaration of Independence of 1776 symbolizes the beginning of the "Indian Wars" and "westward movement" that continued across the continent for another century of unrelenting U.S. wars of conquest. (monthlyreview.org)
- As Americans ventured westward to settle the frontier, their inherent superior beliefs, culture and the principles of democracy accompanied them. (123helpme.com)
- Analyzes how the westward expansion affected the economy and social structures of the northern and southern regions of america. (123helpme.com)
Roots2
- This cult of the natural has deep roots in America. (bostonreview.net)
- Leonard Peltier (of the Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations) traces the roots of his political activism to the rank racism and brutal poverty he experienced every day as an Indian child growing up on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Fort Totten Sioux reservations in North Dakota. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
Fate1
- The fate of North America hung in the balance. (americanheritage.com)
Independence2
- Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called "Common Sense," which was instrumental in inspiring the American Revolution and advocating for independence from Britain. (proprofs.com)
- On the other hand, the Americans were able to defeat the British at Yorktown, which became the spark that ignited the fight for independence. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
Tribe1
- A tribe of Indian tribe tried to communicate with the men (used words common to Croatoan) and so they assumed the men went up to the Indian tribe to live with them. (ostatic.com)
Historian4
- Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. (prince-books.com)
- Brands is an American treasure: a professional, discerning historian who can write with forceful elegance. (prince-books.com)
- Most Americans know of Crazy Horse's reputation as a fierce combatant, but a close study of his character by the Lakota historian Joseph M. Marshall III over the last three decades suggests that this legendary warrior, who almost always outwitted his opponents, was a surprisingly humble man. (smithsonianmag.com)
- That is one reason American Heritage has published so many of them - and why noted military historian Stephen W. Sears has selected the most compelling. (americanheritage.com)
Whites2
- How do you perceive the Indians who allied with whites? (historynet.com)
- Fur trappers of the Far West accommodated the cultural differences between whites and Indians for the benefit of trade. (encyclopedia.com)
Peoples2
- By examining how the IWW consistently advocated for, and recruited, workers of color in the US and SA, we argue that the anarchist/syndicalist tradition was the first in both countries to fully embrace oppressed races and peoples: African Americans, black Africans, and other workers of color. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
- In the course of time, immigrants from different places have been added to the amalgam of the three peoples who originally fought over the territory of Quebec. (icomos.org)
Ultimately1
- So ultimately, Americans needed to discover what every square mile of their country had to offer and promote the best places for settlement. (encyclopedia.com)
Nations3
- The powerful Indian nations entrenched on the ridge of the Appalachian Mountains held the balance among the colonial powers on the North American continent. (rug.nl)
- Nation of nations: A concise narrative of the American republic (3rd ed. (123helpme.com)
- The first of the Indians' 20 Points demanded the restoration of their constitutional treaty-making powers, removed by the provision in the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act, and the next seven concerned recognition of the sovereignty of Indian nations and the revalidation of treaties, including the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
Settlements2
- After the brutal killing of his wife, children and mother by Mexican soldiers, he became a relentless avenger, raiding Mexican settlements across the American border. (prince-books.com)
- More permanent settlements were needed there to establish America's claim to the rest of the continent. (encyclopedia.com)
Preserve2
- One was a leader of his people, who fought to preserve their place in the western United States. (prince-books.com)
- Englishmen regard the question of Secession, when he implies that had he been a New Englander he would have fought to the death to preserve the Union, while had he been born in Virginia he would have done as much in defence of a right the South believed inalienable. (fullbooks.com)
Geronimo3
- Apaches Relatives of the Navajos, the Apache Indians are best-known for their fierce military resistance against the Mexicans and Americans, under the leadership of warriors like Geronimo and Cochise. (teach-nology.com)
- But Geronimo preferred to fight. (prince-books.com)
- His remarkable decision to discuss Indian relations and conflicts via these dual, and dueling, biographies of Sherman and Geronimo yields unexpected inf lections and surprising insights. (prince-books.com)
Great7
- Intense fighting over the northern Great Plains solidified Crazy Horse's position, along with his compatriot Red Cloud, as first among the Oglalas' military leaders. (smithsonianmag.com)
- With that innate love of virtue and real worth which has always distinguished the American people, there has long been growing up, even among those who were the fiercest foes of the South, a feeling of love and reverence for the memory of this great and true-hearted man of war, who fell in what he firmly believed to be a sacred cause. (fullbooks.com)
- Since the late 17th century, hostilities between France and Great Britain in North America had been continuous. (battlefields.org)
- Queen Anne's War, (1702-13), second in a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France in North America for control of the continent. (archivemore.com)
- The Avengers - Not Steed and Emma Peel (although there was an Avengers film featuring these two (Ralph Fiennes, and Uma Thurman involved) which was not a great success), but the gathering of Marvel superheroes such as Hulk, Captain America and Black Widow to see off threats to the Earth. (props-n-frocks.co.uk)
- By the eighteenth century, only Great Britain and France remained as rivals for the heart of the continent. (americanheritage.com)
- All first-person accounts of great events have their own fascination, but the editors of American Heritage have discovered that people writing about World War II seem to tell their own story with particular passion and eloquence. (americanheritage.com)
Spanish3
- A miracle happens, a typhoon from North Sea comes and sinks the Spanish navy to the ocean floor. (ostatic.com)
- They fought at the Siege of Havana, held by Spanish forces, which ended in the surrender of the city. (revwartalk.com)
- Spanish explorer who, with the backing of Ferdinand V and Isabella I, discovered the North American continent on October 12,1492 . (salemwitchtrials.com)
Dramatic2
- This brilliant anthology tells the dramatic story of America's war in Vietnam, with essays by ten leading American historians including Max Boot, Douglas Brinkley, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stanley Karnow. (americanheritage.com)
- Compiled and introduced by American Heritage Editor Edwin Grosvenor, the book covers topics from the first American deaths in Vietnam, the dramatic victory at Ia Drang, the Tet offensive, and, finally, the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (americanheritage.com)
Heritage1
- Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage . (americanheritage.com)
Civil War3
- Cozzens, author and editor of 17 histories of the Civil War and Indian wars, turns his gaze west again to provide balance regarding the broad narrative of the Indian wars. (historynet.com)
- The other fought in the Civil War and forced the destruction of the South and eventual victory for the North. (prince-books.com)
- Analyzes how regional differences escalated to a level where neither the north nor the south could settle on common understanding, leading to civil war. (123helpme.com)
Driven1
- Apalachees Original people of northern Florida, the Apalachee Indians were driven west and their descendants live in Louisiana today. (teach-nology.com)
West2
- There are no long mountain ranges in Maine, but there is a general elevation which extends from the northeast boundary at Mazs Hill to the sources of the Magalloway River in the west, and constitutes a divide between the streams flowing south, and those flowing north or east. (catholic.com)
- It describes how Custer and his men, after being forced to retreat to the west by the Indians, made a dangerous trek over an extremely difficult terrain. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
Time3
- and I hope that the accounts which I have from time to time transmitted of Indian affairs will shew, that I am pretty well acquainted with the subject. (rug.nl)
- he spent a lot of time on the South American continent. (nma.gov.au)
- He was engaged in what Darwin recognised at the time as a mission to exterminate the Indians. (nma.gov.au)
Control4
- He developed two plans, each of which was designed to both gain control of territory and to deal a serious or fatal blow to the American army. (revwartalk.com)
- The confrontation at Fort Necessity, just east of Uniontown, in the summer of 1754 was the prelude to the war fought by England and France for control of the North American continent. (roadville.com)
- Throughout the war, both Britain and America tried to take control of Canada by force. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
- The American Respiratory Alliance of Western Pennsylvania is dedicated to the prevention and control of lung disease through education, training, direct services, research funding, and advocacy since 1904. (cdc.gov)
Slaves2
- The dead woman was one of the lowly Indian slaves known as Panis. (americanheritage.com)
- Grants that give a person the right to take labor in the form of slaves or any type of homage form a designated group of Indians. (salemwitchtrials.com)
Raids1
- He move to his capital at St. Augustine, established the Florida-Georgia border, stopped Indian raids with the Treaty of Fort Picolata, and encouraged new settlement in his colony. (revwartalk.com)
America's1
- Now, Indian people were offered money to get off their land and move to cities like Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Chicago-where they were faced with joblessness, poverty, and hopeless despair on the mean streets of America's inner-city slums. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
People5
- I lately made a considerable purchase from that Indian Nation, of some of those hunting grounds, which are now become the property of the British Crown, at the Charge of this Province: I had the deeds of conveyance formally executed in their own Country, by their head men, in the name of the whole people, and with their universal approbation and good will. (rug.nl)
- Arapahos the Arapaho Indians were originally farming people, but once horses were introduced to the Americas, they began to follow the buffalo herds like the Cheyenne and Sioux. (teach-nology.com)
- Many in the US seem to have no clue just how much of a 'city on a hill' the US is still perceived to be, and how important that American beacon is to millions of people living under autocratic regimes. (spectator.co.uk)
- Why don't they stand up and fight for their starving people? (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
- The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. (cdc.gov)
Wars6
- I settled on the Indian wars in no small measure because of the absence of historical balance in Brown's book. (historynet.com)
- What is the biggest misconception about the Indian wars? (historynet.com)
- Brands puts the Indian Wars] in the widest possible perspective even as he examines them at the most intimate level. (prince-books.com)
- Brands describes the horrors of [the Indian Wars] in vivid prose, drawing on conversations and memoirs from the era to document the tragedy. (prince-books.com)
- Early wars and land purchases legalized Americans' claim to the continent (see Chapter 1). (encyclopedia.com)
- Under a religious pretense, most all wars were thought both justified and reasonable by the common man, fought for cultural and pious reasons, but the true motivations for war comes from a select and dominating few who have learned to organize and synthesize the exact inspiration for war … by the manipulation of the mind of men. (thelibertybeacon.com)
Establishment1
- It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. (blogspot.com)
Resistance1
- There was no unified Indian resistance, as his book implies. (historynet.com)
Army4
- But I suppose I would have to say the notion that the Army was the implacable foe of the Indian, that generals were hell-bent on exterminating the Indians, is the most pernicious. (historynet.com)
- First, explorers blazed trails across the continent, and then the U.S. Army sent engineers to explore the boundaries of the country. (encyclopedia.com)
- Former American Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, travelling around the world to train an army of activists and influence international climate policy. (csum.edu)
- He eluded the armies of both countries so many times that one army official called him the 'greatest Indian general who had ever appeared on the American continent. (nativepartnership.org)
White4
- The White man has shown in the past that he can fight as well as any on earth. (flawlesslogic.com)
- In the 1800s the American continent lay out before the White man. (flawlesslogic.com)
- I want to tell you something else about the White man who created America. (flawlesslogic.com)
- Most respondents were either Black/African American (26), White (25) or MENA (23). (cdc.gov)
Largest1
- Located in the Western Hemisphere, North America is the third largest continent by area. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
Power1
- The bison hide trade with the Americans was booming, and the Lakotas emerged as the dominant power in the heart of the continent, in the Black Hills or Paha Sapa , their mythical birthplace. (smithsonianmag.com)