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The forgotten history and cultural and political legacies of U.S. imperialism and other historical debates in political cartoons, literature, and historical texts and analyses.

Newly updated, very intensive site on the Spanish American War. Internationally respected site covers battles, such as Manila Bay, Santiago, San Juan Hill, etc.; re-enactment groups, Geneaological research tips ...

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The PC Users Group Welcome to the home page of the PC Users Group (ACT) Incorporated. The PCUG is located in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, which is in turn located in the Australian Capital Territory. The Group has a membership of about 2000. TIP News Web based email: TIP now offers a secure web based email service. This can be used to read and write email and manage your mailbox from ...

The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Alphabetical Title List or Topical Title List | Subject Index This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the ...

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Hundreds of searchable Pennsylvania Spanish American rosters and muster rolls, regimental histories and Medal of Honor winners. Tips on ways to discover if your ancestor was in the military with instuctions how to order your ancestor's military records from the National Archives. ...

The War of 1812 Website offers articles, War of 1812 links, uniform charts, War of 1812 book reviews, War of 1812 reenactments, military replicas (swords uniforms) ...

An online bilingual companion resource to The US-Mexican War (1846-1848) a documentary produced by KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth for PBS ...

The Napoleonic Collection offers Napoleonic Wars articles, Napoleonic Wars reenactment listings, and Napoleonic replicas (swords, uniforms) ...

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The Napoleon Bonaparte guide, guides you to the best Napoleonic sites. Start your search for information about him here.

Welcome to Fort Erie and The War of 1812 Old Fort Erie...Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada Every August on the 2nd weekend, the War of 1812 is re-lived where the most bloody Siege of Fort Erie took place on August 15, 1814. Entering into its 16th year, this battle re-enactment has attracted over 600 participants to relive the event over a two day period. Pyrotechnics, day and night battle scenes, live ...

Displays an evolving, dynamic map of Europe and the Middle East. A free demo version covering the Napoleonic Period may be downloaded from the site.

On-line Napoleonic resources at The War Times Journal. Includes rare archives, articles and free gaming rules.

War Museum of the Boer Republics | Guestbook | Intro | Chronology | Photos | Camps | Important People | Publications | POW | Black People | Contacts One of the most significant events in the history of South Africa was the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. Although the protagonists were Britain and the two Boer Republics, the population of South Africa as a whole became embroiled in the war either ...

January 25, 1898 -- The U.S.S. Maine enters Havana harbor, about three weeks before it was blown up. Remember the Maine Cuba Libre Provides background information about the Cuban insurgency against foreign control both before and after the Maine incident Map of Cuba (This is an interactive map -- for example, click on Havana for a more detailed view of the city.) For a wider view of the region: ...

A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish Conflict, ...

All about the Armies, Uniforms, War history and Soldier's daily life during the era of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815) ...

Website dedicated to the Victoria Cross Winners from Rorke's Drift, 1879 ...

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An updated and revised short history of the causes and effects of the Spanish-American War.

South African (Boer) War centenary exhibition about New Zeland's participation, includes over 50 images, sound files and transcripts from letters and newspapers ...

This factual account of the Metis half of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion includes a look at Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont (12 illustrations).

The South African Military History Society Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging Military History Journal (incorporating Museum Review) Articles published over the last 35 years Guidelines for Authors The Military History Journal (incorporating the Museum Review), established in 1967, is published by the South African National Museum Of Military History in association with the South ...

Zulu War Fine art prints depicting Rorke's Drift, Isandhlwana, Ulundi during the Zulu War. Rorke's Drift art prints by Alphonse De Neuville, Mark Churms and Brian Palmer. Original paintings are available from Cranston Fine Arts.

Overview of the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, in which hundreds of thousands died as the U.S. colonialized an independent nation.

Key Events & Causes: War of 1812 Event Date Location Significance Napolean excludes British goods from fortress Europe 1806 Europe American ships caught in middle as British respond with blockade. British seize 1000 U.S. ships, French ca. 500. British impress American sailors 1803-1812 High seas British captains took over 10, 000 American citizens to man ships. Chesapeake -Leopard fight June 1807 ...

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Text only E4 FilmFour.com attheraces 4car.co.uk T4 TV LISTINGS COMMUNITY SHOP A-Z OF C4 SITES SEARCH THE WEB NEWS | SPORT | ENTERTAINMENT | CULTURE | HISTORY | SCIENCE | HEALTH | LEARNING | LIFE | FILMS War against Napoleon Nelson's Trafalgar 4 March 2002 Napoleon's Waterloo 11 March 2002 A World in Arms 18 March 2002 25 March 2002 30 March 2002 Wellington's Women 31 March 2002 ...

#1 site on the Mexican War by the Aztec Club of 1847. Packed with 100s of battle scenes, maps, uniforms, flags and weapons, biographies, journals, narrative histories, battle chronologies and statistics.

A visit to the Teddy Roosevelt Rough Rider Museum in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Crazy Horse/Tashunkewitko, Oglala A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. I was hostile to the white man...we preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers came and destroyed our ...

The U.S. Army in the War with Spain The Rough Riders A DECLARATION OF WAR TROOP B, IN THE PORTO RICO CAMPAIGN THE TEMPORARY INCREASE OF THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN TIME OF WAR ANNUAL REPORT OF MAJ. GEN. FITZHUGH LEE, COMMANDING SEVENTH ARMY CORPS (Extracted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of War for 1898, 2:218-223) BLACK JACK IN CUBA: GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING'S ...

THE FIGHTING TWENTIETH 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry An Account of the Kansas Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898-1899 A Short History Rosters Medal of Honor Recipients Further Reading References Kansas was represented in the Spanish-American War of 1898-1899 by 4 regiments, including the 20th Kansas Infantry Regiment. In recognition of the upcoming Centennial Anniversary of this ...

Everything about the Napoleonic Wars, Leaders, Battles, Kings, Campaings, Uniforms and a lot more ...

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Plains Indians During most of its early history, Fort Laramie was a social and economic center for several tribes of Plains Indians. The Native Americans came to trade, to visit, and later to sign treaties and receive annuities. Early relations between the traders at the Fort and the Indians were amicable, but as the tide of emigrants swelled along the Oregon Trial, resentments and friction ...

Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898 By John Baker Contents Background -- February 1898 -- On the Way to War -- Ethnic Minorities, War and the Press -- War -- Aftermath -- Footnotes -- Bibliography The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked a turning point in American history. Within a few years of the war's end, the United States was a world power, exercising control or ...

Film Studies and the Spanish-American War The commercial cinema was barely two years old when the United States declared war against Spain in April of 1898. Judging from the work of leading film historians, it would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Spanish-American War to a fledgling American film industry in the wake of cinema's putative novelty year. In Commercial Warfare and ...

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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Peace Conference at the Hague 1899 : Correspondence, Instructions and Reports Major Collections What's New Avalon Home pre 18th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century Laws of War Page - Hague and Geneva Conventions SEARCH the 1899 Hague Conference: Rescript of the Russian Emperor August 24 (12, Old Style), 1898 Russian Circular January ...

Links to Old West Forts and Towns His summers are spent in campaigning; his winters in getting his horse in condition for the next campaign. He has scarcely a mounted drill for in summer he must save his horse for active work, and in winter his horse is unfit for it. He is building posts, stables, cantonments, driving a team or cutting firewood. He is a 'hewer of wood and a drawer of water.' ...

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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS BAKER, BENJAMIN F. Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 12 March 1862, Dennisport, Mass. G.O. No.: 521, 7 July 1899. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Nashville during the cutting of the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898. Facing the heavy fire of the enemy, Baker set an example of extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout ...

Blockhouses of the Boer War by Maurig Jones photos: author's collection The popular image of a blockhouse of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is that of a circular metal construction entangled by wire fortifications sitting forlornly in the middle of the veldt. Correct as this is, there were however, two other types of 'blockhouses'. The first blockhouses were built on the orders of the ...

Emergence Of Modern China The success of the Qing dynasty in maintaining the old order proved a liability when the empire was confronted with growing challenges from seafaring Western powers. The centuries of peace and self-satisfaction dating back to Ming times had encouraged little change in the attitudes of the ruling elite. The imperial Neo-Confucian scholars accepted as axiomatic the ...

The complete photographs and text of Neely's Photographs: Fighting in the Philippines, first published in 1899, including many photographs of U.S. soldiers, Filipino casualties, and various scenes in the Philippines.

MILITARY SERVICE Spanish American War Private Millard Mayo Auxier of Nebraska enlisted on June 20, 1898 at Columbus, Nebraska. He was first assigned to a recruit detachment at San Francisco, California from June 27 to August 21, 1898. He served on Honolulu Island from August 28 to November of 1898. On December 3, 1898 he was assigned to Company M of the 1st Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry ...

Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Battle Streamer index DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060 Spanish-American War 1898 On the night of 15 February l898 the battleship USS Maine was shattered by an explosion which sent the ship and two-thirds of her crew to the bottom of Havana harbor.

Five photos: The Medal of Honor, this nation's highest honor for valor under enemy fire, was awarded to four Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts.

When can their glory fade O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade The 13th at Balaclava From: C. R. B. Barrett, History of the XIII Hussars, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1911. STATE OF THE REGIMENT ON ...

The Pigeon Post into Paris 1870-1871 by J.D. Hayhurst O.B.E. Prepared in digital format by Mark Hayhurst Copyright 1970 John Hayhurst Cover illustration. PREFACE The postal history of the siege of Paris has long been a subject of intensive study; much has been written, much remains to be written. The research is mainly directed at the balloon post, occasionally at the boules de Moulins. In ...

Chapter 8 THE MEXICAN WAR AND AFTER Extracted from AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY UNITED STATES ARMY CHAPTER 8 The Mexican War and After Receiving by the new telegraph the news that James K. Polk had been elected to the Presidency in November 1844, President John Tyler interpreted the verdict as a mandate from the people for the ...

Virginia Tech University Archive Special Collections University Libraries V.P.I. in the Spanish American War by Col. Harry D. Temple Page One { Page One - Page Two - Page Three - Page Four } Text and pictures copyright 1996 by Harry D. Temple. Used with permission. NOTE: The staff of Special Collections regret that it is unable to provide any further information on the subjects contained in this ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 WHEN war was declared between France and Germany in the early summer of 1870, I was sent by a London paper to act as special correspondent with MacMahon's corps d'armee, and, leaving the town at twenty-four hours' notice, arrived at Strasburg with by no means too much time to spare.

Chapter 14 Extracted from WINNING THE WEST THE ARMY IN THE INDIAN WARS, 1865-1890 AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY UNITED STATES ARMY CHAPTER 14 Winning the West: The Army in the Indian Wars, 1865-1890 Perhaps because of a tendency to view the record of a military establishment in terms of conflict, the U.S. Army's operational experience in ...

The South African Military History Society Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereeniging Military History Journal - Vol 4 No 4 The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift G.A. Chadwick, B.A., B.Com. Editors' Note: Mr G.A. Chadwick is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the South African National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg and the Voortrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg ...

Muster Roll Co L, 7th California Vol. Infty Spanish American War 1898 Solomon H. Finley, Captain Walter A. Greenleaf, First Lieut. Lewis L. Vestal, Second Lieut. George H. Magill, First Sargeant Allan F. Smith, Quartermaster Sargeant Sargeants Leo R. Brock John C. Abbey Charles W. Hannah Louis A. Barrett Gilbert P. Campbell Corporals William B. Bowers Albert H. Sitton Hugh M. Day Gilbert E.

The war fought mainly in the Crimea from 1854 to 56, between the 'Allies' (Turkey, France, Britain, and Piedmont/Sardinia) and Russia. The topic is broadly developed chronologically, starting with background, causes and then through the main events of the war, broken up with articles on personalities and issues prominent during the War. - dewey decimal 947.0738 ...

In the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, the first treaty in the modern history of China, London gained Hong Kong island as a reparation from the Qing Court, desperate to stave off escalation of the military conflict then underway. (The image to the left is a fragment of that treaty.) One particularly important document which led to the Opium War (and, ultimately, this conference and site) was drafted ...

1898 Los Documentos de Puerto Rico Scholar-Sailors in the Spanish-American War By: Miguel J. Hernandez Torres Mr. Hernandez have the web page: Puerto Rican/Hispanic Genealogical Society Inc. In the pre-dawn darkness of the 28th of June of 1898 an American warship, the U.S.S. Yossemite, lay in wait off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Although commissioned as a cruiser, she was not originally ...

Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, presented in The National Center for Public Policy Research's Archive of Historical Documents ...

The Polish Vistula Legion by George Nafziger and Tad J. Kwiatkowski In 1806, what was left of the old Dabowski and Kniaziewicz's Danube Legion (established in 1796 and 1799 respectively) was one infantry regiment and one cavalry regiment in the service of Kingdom of Naples. In February 1807 these remnants became part of the French army and were sent to Silesia. These Polish veterans became the ...

Skip Navigation Michigan.gov Home DMVA Home Site | Sitemap | Contact DMVA | FAQ | DMVA Jobs Public Affairs Financial Services History Michigan Military History Military Personalities Museums & Forts Historical Links Director & Leadership DMVA JOBS Legal Contact: paocmn@michigan.gov The Spanish-American War Michigan Joins the War The Spanish-American War is assumed to have started ...

The Burning of Washington, presented in The National Center for Public Policy Research's Archive of Historical Documents ...

Der Befreiungskriege 1806 - 1813 The History of the German Struggle for Liberty (A Pictorial Essay) A Memorial for the Germans who gave their lives and or their prized possessions so that their countrymen could be freed from Napoleonic tyranny Prelude to the Wars of Liberation: The Humilation of Prussia Glory at Colberg The Martyrs The Reformers The Winter of 1812, and the Campaign of 1813: The ...

Important places and persons of the First Empire including the King of Rome, Malmaison and Saint Cloud ...

Napoleon's army, uniforms, maps, battles, organization, and commanders.

The Irish Legion by J.Lochet illustration by Mike Gilbert The Legion Irlandaise or Irish Legion, was raised as a light infantry battalion by the Decree of 3 April 1803 from the almost endless stream of enthusiastic Irishmen that appeared any time there was an Englishman to be shot. The Legion was raised with the intention of using it in the proposed French invasion of Ireland, a project which ...

Lin Zexu (Lin Tse-Hsu) (1839 CE) Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria (use your browser's Back button to return) From Ssuyu Teng and John Fairbank, China's Response to the West (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1954), reprinted in Mark A. Kishlansky, ed., Sources of World History, Volume II, (New York: HarperCollins CollegePublishers, 1995), pp. 266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu ...

Return to Wars and Conflicts page Return to Naval Historical Center home page. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060 Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the War of 1812 These lists contain the names of all commissioned and warrant officers of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after the close ...

The South African Military History Society Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereeniging Military History Journal - Vol 10 No 3 (incorporating Museum Review) ANGLO-BOER WAR TOWN GUARD FORTS IN THE EASTERN CAPE, 1901-1902 By Richard Tomlinson During the author's travels in the Eastern Cape over the past six years, he came across the remains of several small stone fortifications erected by local ...

Sevastopol history : Crimea war 1854-1855 (1st Sevastopol defence) Crimean war flared up in 1854 as result of long saved economic and political contradictions between England, France, Turkey and Russia. Each of these countries aspired to strengthen the influence on Near East to win the markets of selling to subordinate to itself new territories. England and France, skilfully using more and more ...

OLD NEWS Return to Old News home page Besieged Parisians Launch Balloons by Rick Bromer The Franco-Prussian war, which began in July of 1870, was a disaster for France. By September 20, 1870, an invading army of Prussians had surrounded the French capital of Paris. The leaders of the French Republic then found themselves besieged and unable to communicate with their own armies in the provinces.

Illustration by Art Seiden Florida Atlantic University Libraries Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America from Colonial Times to 1900: A Judaica Collection Exhibit Jews Who Served With Honor In The Spanish-American War by Seymour Sy Brody When the battleship MAINE was sunk on February 15, 1898, there were 15 Jewish sailors who went down with the ship. The executive officer of the MAINE, and later a ...

Mercer County Military Section Spanish American War Spanish American War Ancestral Heroes A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Submit Your Mercer County Ancestral Hero Search Ancestral Heroes! powered by FreeFind The History of the 15th Regiment of PA Volunteer Infantry, recruited from Mercer, Butler, Erie, Crawford and Clarion Counties Spanish American War Website - history, ...

A British Account of the Burning of Washington, presented in The National Center for Public Policy Research's Archive of Historical Documents ...

This page lists a number of different re-enactment units that portray historical period known as the War of 1812.

THE TREATY OF NANKING Nanking, August 29, 1842 Peace Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of China. HER MAJESTY the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous of putting an end to the misunderstandings and consequent hostilities which have arisen between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a Treaty ...

American Merchant Marine in Spanish-American War ...

Scottish Military Crimean illustrations and uniforms on the Internet.

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A Perfect Hailstorm of Bullets: A Black Sergeant Remembers the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1899 by Frank Pullen The best-known image of the Spanish-American War is that of Teddy Roosevelt on horseback charging with his Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba. But not only was the role of the Rough Riders exaggerated, it also displaced attention from the black soldiers who made up almost 25 percent ...

A guide to the wars, armies and geography of 19th Century military history (from Waterloo to the 1st World War), backed up by longer articles and wargame battle reports.

OLD NEWS Return to Old News home page Emperor of China Declares War on Drugs by Paul Chrastina Lin Tse-hsu, the governor of the Chinese province of Hu-Huang, was an accomplished administrator and bureaucrat who wrote stylized Confucian poetry in his spare time. During his long career, 53-year-old Lin had acquired a reputation as a man who could be counted on to do the right thing in a difficult ...

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THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO THE ANGLO BOER WAR CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS. WHATCH THIS SPACE!! A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE ANGLO BOER WAR FOREIGN REGIMENTS INVOLVED IN THE ANGLO BOER WAR ANGLO BOER WAR RELATED LITERATURE LIST OF MILITARY AND ANGLO BOER WAR RELATED MUSEUMS SOURCES WHERE BY THE BLOW-BY- BLOW EVENTS OF EACH BATTLE AND EVERY SKIRMISH OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR CAN BE TRACED THE ANGLO BOER WAR ...

A concise illustrated history of the evolution of military uniforms during the napoleonic wars.

Biography of Otto von Bismarckfocus on how the planetary metaphot of Saturn was reflected in his life and work, by renowned astrocartographer Rob Couteau ...