Providential History

Veterans Day

2010-11-11T04:58:00.000-08:00

On this particular day we remember those who fought and died for our freedom. Those who in the revolutionary war fought against the British army and won our freedom. Those who have fought over seas to fight for our freedom and security.

Remember all those who had the guts to go fight and die for freedom.

This day in Providential History, October 16th

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In 1781 - George Washington takes Yorktown, from British forces.
In 1793 - Marie Anoinette is guillotined at the pinnacle of the French Revolution.
In 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon at Lepzig.
In 1859 - John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
In 1923 - Walt Disney is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
In 1939 - WWII: First air attacks on Britian by the German Luftwaffe.
In 1940 - The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
In 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis begins.
In 2006 - A 6.7 Earthquake causes massive damage's to property.

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Part 11 - Chancellorsville

2010-10-13T15:51:00.000-07:00

The Battle of Chancellorsville, fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863 was a major battle that also kept turning the ride to the Union favor. The battle is called 'Lee's Perfect Battle' because of his risky but successful division of his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force. Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid performance in combat combined to result in a significant Union defeat. The Confederate victory was tempered by the mortal wounding of Stonewall Jackson.

May 1st and 2nd

The Battle of Chancellorsville began with the crossing of the Rappahannock river on April 27, 1863 by the Federal Army of the Potomac under Gen. Joseph Hooker. The army then crossed the Rapidan River and concentrated their forces near Chancellorsville on April 30th and May 1st.
By May 1, Hooker had approximately 70,000 men concentrated around Chancellorsville. From his Fredericksburg headquarters, Lee decided to violate one of the generally accepted 'Principle's of war' and divide his force in the face of a superior enemy, hoping that aggressive action would allow him to attack and defeat a portion of Hooker's army before it could be fully concentrated against him, it worked. So Lee left behind a brigade and a division at Mayre's heights to contest any assault that came from Union General Sedgwick's corps. Lee ordered Stonewall Jackson to march west and link up with Maj. Richard Anderson, assembling 40,000 men to confront Hooker at Chancellorsville. Providentialy for the Confederates, heavy fog the Rappahannock masked some of these westward movements and Sedgwick chose to wait until he could determine the enemy's intentions.

At the same time General Jackson was marching west to join with Anderson on the morning of May 1, Hooker ordered an advance to the east to strike Anderson, pushing his men out of the impenetrable thickets that characterized the area. Hooker did this because in the wilderness his advantage of Artillery would be minimized. Despite being in a potentially favorable situation, Hooker halted his brief offensive. His actions may have demonstrated his lack of confidence in handling the complex actions of such a large organization for the first time (he had been an effective and aggressive division and corps commander in previous battles), but he had also decided before beginning the campaign that he would fight the battle defensively, forcing Lee, with his small army, to attack Hooker's larger one. Lee then prepared for the attack.
For Lee's attack to work, three things had to happen. First, Jackson had to make a 12-mile (19 km) march via roundabout roads to reach the Union right, and he had to do it undetected. Second, Lee had to hope that Hooker stayed tamely on the defensive. Third, Early would have to keep Sedgwick bottled up in Fredericksburg. And when Jackson launched his attack, he had to hope that the Union forces were unprepared.

May 3rd

All of these conditions were met. The Confederates smashed the Federals. However, on May 3rd after heavy fighting the Union troops retreated out of Chancellorsville. Still, Lee could not declare victory, nor was Hooker conceding defeat. During the height of the fighting at Chancellorsville on May 3, he called on Sedgwick to break through and attack Lee's rear. Again that general delayed until it was too late. That afternoon, he finally did attack Early's position (after Early at one point abandoned it himself because of a misinterpreted order from Lee), and broke through. But he did it too late in the day to help Hooker. In fact, a single Alabama brigade slowed the already sluggish advance.

May 4th

On the evening of May 3 and all day May 4, Hooker remained in his defenses while Lee and Early battled Sedgwick. After breaking Early's defenses on May 3rd, Sedgwick foolishly neglected to secure Fredericksburg. Early simply marched back and reoccupied the heights west of the city, cutting Sedgwick off.
Sedgwick, as it turned out, was as strong on the defensive as he was weak on the attack, and he stood his ground that day before withdrawing back across the Rappahannock at Banks's Ford during the pre-dawn hours of May 5. This was another miscommunication between him and Hooker; the commanding general had wanted Sedgwick to hold Banks's Ford, so that Hooker could withdraw from the Chancellorsville area and re-cross the river at Banks's to fight again. When he learned that Sedgwick had retreated back over the river, Hooker felt he was out of options to save the campaign, and on the night of May 5–6, he also withdrew back across the river.
In the end Jackson was dead after taking friendly fire then being dropped on a root which punctured his lung. Jackson then contracted Pneumonia. 13,000 casualties for the Confederates and 17,000 for the Federals.

October 11th This Day in Provedential History

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In 1138 - A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo Syria.
In 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle by the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
In 1809 - Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand in Tennessee.
In 1958 - Pioneer 1 is launched, however it burns up and falls back to earth.

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Part 10 - Fredericksburg

2010-10-10T05:43:00.000-07:00

Fredericksburg overview

Robert E. Lee

Ambrose Burnside

The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was one of the most bloody battle's of the war. Ambrose Burnside planned to take the Army of the Potomac and race to Richmond before Lee could stop him. However bureaucratic delays slowed Burnside down because he could not obtain the necessary pontoon bridges. Lee caught up to Burnside and blocked his way at Fredericksburg. When Burnside finally got the bridges the army crossed under fire and from December 11th to the 12th urban fighting ensued. After driving the confederates out they prepared to assault the strongly fortified Confederate positions south of the city at Marye's Heights. On the 13th Gen. William Franklin pierced Stonewall Jackson's line but was finally repulsed. Burnside launched many head on assaults that did nothing but add to their casualties.
On December 15th Burnside finally retreated having lost 12,653 men. The Confederates only lost 5,377 men.

Thus ended Burnside's campaign in the Eastern Theatre.

October 9th, This Day in Provedential History

2010-10-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

In 1047- Pope Clement II dies
In 1760 - The Seven Years War, Russian forces capture Berlin.
In 1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
In 1854 - The Crimean War The Siege of Sebastopol begins.
In 1914 - WWI Antwerp falls to German troops.

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Part 9 - The Maryland Campaign

2010-10-01T05:51:00.000-07:00

McClellan - Lee

The Maryland Campaign, or the Antietam Campaign (September 4–20, 1862) is widely considered one of the major turning points of the American Civil War.

Following up his victory in the Northern Virginia Campaign on September 4, 1862 Lee moved north with his 55,000 man Army of Northren Virginia. Lee moved north through the Shennandoah Valley. His objective was to resupply his army outside of the war-torn Virginia theater and to damage Northern morale in anticipation of the November elections. He undertook the risky maneuver of splitting his army so that he could continue north into Maryland while simultaneously capturing the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. McClellan accidentally found a copy of Lee's orders, wrapped in three cigars, to his subordinate commanders and planned to isolate and defeat the separated portions of Lee's army.

Battle of Antietam

While 'Stonewall' Jackson captured Harper's Ferry, McClellan moved quickly through the South Mountain. However Lee found out and though being out numbered heavily, delayed McClellan for more than a day before withdrawing. This delay allowed Lee enough time to concentrate his forces at Sharpsburg, Maryland(Antietam). The next day, September 17 was the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history. There were over 22,000 casualties. Lee, outnumbered two to one, moved his defensive forces to parry each offensive blow, McClellan never deployed all of the reserves of his army to capitalize on localized successes and destroy the Confederates. On September 18, Lee ordered a withdrawal across the Potomac and on September 19 and September 20, fights with Lee's rear guard at Shepherdstown finally ended the long bloody campaign.

Although Antietam was a tactical draw, Lee's Maryland Campaign failed to achieve its objectives. President Lincoln used this to announce the Emancipation Proclamation which effectively ended any foreign alliance with the Confederates.

Part 8 - The Cruise of the CSS Alabama

2010-09-30T06:20:00.000-07:00

CSS Alabama

The CSS Alabama is one of the most famous ships in history. It was built in 1862 by the Confederate Navy to try and break the blockade. The CSS Alabama is a screw sloop of war. The ship, however was not built in America, but at Birckenhead, England. The ships main purpose was to raid commerce so that federal ships would have to come off of the blockade therefore making it easier to slip through. She never even docked at any Confederate port but sailed around the world and wreaked havoc with Federal shipping. The captain of the ship was 52 year old Ralph Semmes, a Mexican War veteran. He sailed all seven seas and tore into Federal shipping wherever he could find them. The Union navy sent several warships after the Alabama.
One of those ships, the USS Hatteras, the CSS Alabama met and left a flaming wreckage. He sank 10 ships off the Azores coast. Captured 11 ships off the Canadian coast.
Finally in 1864 the Union ship USS Kearsarge cornered the Alabama in the port of Cherbourg, France. The Alabama sailed out, it was needing major repairs and its ammunition was defective. The Kearsarge, had been newly outfitted with 11 pound Dahlgrens. And not even known to Semmes it had been outfitted with sheet chain and was in fact an ironclad. At first the battle swayed in the Alabama's favor. One of the shells from the Alabama stuck in a vital position. However the shell was a dud and the battle swayed now toward the Kearsarge. The Kearsarge's shells wrecked havoc on the Alabama while most of the shots from the CSS Alabama just bounced off.

Ralph Semmes

Even though the Alabama sunk the Union ship could still not catch Semmes, he escaped on a English Yacht. In the end the CSS Alabama cost the U.S. Government nearly 7 million dollars, and 66 ships.

Part 7 - Shiloh

2010-09-29T06:00:00.001-07:00

Grant

Albert Sydney Johnston

Carlos Beull

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the western theater.
It was also a turning point. Union General Ulysses S. Grant led his army of Tennessee (48,894 strong) after his victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and his drive through Tennessee. As Grants army was encamped at Pittsburg Landing. The Confederates under General Albert Sydney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard launched a massive ambush of Grants troops as they marched from Pittsburg Landing. On the first day of the battle, the Confederates struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the river and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west, hoping to defeat Grant's Army of Tennessee, before the anticipated arrival of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Beull's Army of the Ohio. (17,918 strong)The Confederate battle lines became confused during the fierce fighting, and Grant's men instead fell back to the northeast, in the direction of Pittsburg Landing. A position on a slightly sunken road, nicknamed the "Hornet's Nest", defended tenaciously by the Federal forces.

Beauregard

This provided critical time for the rest of the Union line to stabilize under the protection of numerous artillery batteries. Gen. Johnston was killed during the first day of fighting, and Beauregard, his second in command, decided against assaulting the final Union position that night. Jefferson Davis, President of CSA said when he heard the news of Johnston's death "I realized that our strongest pillar had been broken."

Reinforcements from Gen. Buell and from Grant's own army arrived in the evening and turned the tide the next morning, when the Union commanders launched a counterattack along the entire line. The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United states history up to that time. The battle itself was a draw, but a tactical victory for the Federals. It cost the CSA 10,699 men in casualties, their best western theater General, locked the Confederates out of west Tennessee for good, and shook the armies confidence.

September 28th This Day in Providential History

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In 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England and the Norman Conquest begins.
In 1781 - American forces, backed by the French Fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
In 1787- The American Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State Legislator.
In 1791 - France becomes the first European nation to emancipate the Jews.
In 1939 - Nazi Germany and Russia agree to divide Poland after their invasion.
In 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Germany.
In 1944 - Soviet troops liberate the Klooga Concentration Camp in Klooga, Estonia.

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The Civil War Part 6 - The Northren Virginia Campaign

2010-09-27T15:38:00.000-07:00

Pope and Lee

The Northern Virginia Campaign, also known as the Second Bull Run Campaign or Second Manassas Campaign, was a series of battles fought in Northern Virginia these battles lasted during August and September 1862. Confederate General Robert E. Lee, following up his successes at the Seven day's campaign moved the Army of Northern Virginia (48,500 strong), north to confront General John Pope's Army of Virginia (75,000 strong). Lee did this because of his concern that Pope's and McClellan's still large army would combine and overwhelm him.

So Lee sent Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson north to intercept Pope at Gordonsville the forces though clashed at Cedar Mountain which was a confederate victory. So Lee followed Jackson with most of his army. Jackson then conducted a wide-ranging move around Pope's right flank, seizing the large supply depot in Pope's rear, at Manassas Junction. Placing his men between Pope and Washington D.C. Jackson put his men in a well defended area near the battle of the First Manassas. Jackson successfully repulsed Union attacks on August 29 as Lee and Longstreet's command arrived on the battlefield. On August 30, Pope attacked again, but was surprised to be caught between attacks by Longstreet and Jackson, and was forced to withdraw with heavy losses. The campaign concluded with another flanking maneuver by Jackson. Jackson hoped to cut off the Union retreat from Bull Run. On September 1, beyond Chantilly Plantation on the Little River turnpike, near Ox Hill. Jackson sent his divisions against two Union divisions, fierce fighting broke out. The confederate attacks were stopped by fierce fighting during a severe thunderstorm. Union generals Stevens and Kearny were both killed. Recognizing that his army was still in danger at Fairfax Courthouse, Pope ordered the retreat to continue to Washington.
Lee's maneuvering against Pope is considered a great military masterpiece. Historian John J. Hennessy wrote that "Lee may have fought cleverer battles, but this was his greatest campaign."

In the end the Army of Northern Virginia lost 9,197, while the Union forces lost 16,054.

Part - 5 The Seven Days Battle's Continued

2010-07-07T15:56:00.000-07:00

McClellan and Lee

The next days were a series of small battles such as Battle of Garnett's & Golding's Farm on June 28th, and Savage Station on the 29th. On June 30th Lee tried to intercept the retreating Army of the Potomac at the battle of Battle of Glendale, also known as the Battle of Frayser's Farm, Frazier's Farm, Nelson's Farm, Charles City Crossroads, New Market Road, or Riddell's Shop. Though the casualties were about equal (3,797 297 killed, 1,696 wounded, and 1,804 missing or captured by the Union Forces, and 3,673 638 killed, 2,814 wounded, and 221 missing by the Confederate Forces) this battle was lost because of poorly executed orders by the Confederates Forces, the loss also gave the Union troops time to dig in at Malvern Hill.

Malvern Hill

The final battle of the Seven Days Battle's was the the Battle of Malvern Hill, also known as the Battle of Poindexter's Farm, which took place on July 1, 1862. Gen. Robert E. Lee launched a series of disjointed assaults on the nearly impregnable Union forces at Malvern Hill. Lee's forces took more than 5,300 casualties without gaining an inch of ground. Despite his victory Gen. McClellan continued his retreat down the James river. If McClellan had gone on the offensive the war may have been much shorter.
The Seven Days ended with McClellan's army in relative safety at Harrison's Landing on the James River, having suffered almost 16,000 casualties during the retreat. Lee's army, which had been on the offensive during the Seven Days, lost over 20,000. As Lee became convinced that McClellan would not resume his threat against Richmond, he moved north for the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Maryland Campaign.

The Civil War Part 4 - The Seven Days Battles

2010-06-08T20:00:00.000-07:00

McClellan-Lee

The Seven Days Battle was a series of six major battles that happened around Richmond from June 25 to July 1, 1862. General Robert E. Lee led his army of 92,000 men against Union General George B. McClellan with 104,100 men. Gen. Lee drove the invading Union's back into Maryland.
The first battle was the battle of Oak Grove. Gen. McClellan tried to advanced his lines with the objective of bringing Richmond in range of his siege guns. The battle began when two union divisions from the III Corps attacked across the headwaters of White Oak Swamp, but were repulsed by Maj. Gen Huger's Division. The end result was that the Union troops gained only 600 yards, at a cost of over a thousand casualties on both sides.

Beaver Dam Creek

The second battle, Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, also known as the Battle of Mechanicsville or Ellerson's Mill was the first real engagement. Lee's first counter offensive against McClellan. Lee attempted to turn the Union flank bet was repulsed, Gen. Stonewall Jackson arrived late. Gen A.P. Hill threw in his division in the vain attempts at the works at Beaver Dam Creek, which were manned by the V corps under Gen. Fitz John Porter who after the battle fell back to Gaines Mill. There were nearly 1,700 casualties on both sides.

Gaines Mill

The Battle of Gaines' Mill, also known as the First Battle of Cold Harbor or the Battle of Chickahominy River, took place on June 27 the third battle in the campaign. Lee renewed his attacks on the V corps, at Gaines Mill. which had established a strong defensive line behind Boatswain's Swamp north of the Chickahominy River. Porter's reinforced V Corps held fast for the afternoon against disjointed Confederate attacks, inflicting heavy casualties on the attackers. At dusk, the Confederates finally mounted a coordinated assault that broke Porter's line and drove his soldiers back toward the river. The Federals retreated across the river during the night. Defeat at Gaines' Mill convinced Gen McClellan to give up Richmond. Though he could have defeated Lee's forces.

To be continued...

June 7th This Day in Providential History

2010-06-07T19:57:00.000-07:00

This is what happened today in Providential History,

In 1099 The First Crusade, The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
In 1420 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas, Which divided the New World between them.
In 1862 The US and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
In 1942 WWII The battle of Midway ends.
In 1967 Isreali forces enter Jerusalem during the Six Day War.

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May 17th This Day in Providential History

2010-05-17T15:47:00.000-07:00

This is what happened today in Providential History,

In 1792 The New York Stock Exchange is formed
In 1891 Napoleon Zervas, a Greek resistance fighter is born.
In 1900 The Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking
In 1940 World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch city Middleburg is bombed by the Luftwaffe.
In 1943 World War II: the Dam buster raids by Squadron 617 RAF on German Dams.

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This Day in Providential History

2010-04-09T16:02:00.000-07:00

This is what happened today in Providential History,

In 1241 The Battle of Liengitz: The Mongol army defeats the German-Pole army.
In 1413 Henry the V was crowned.
In 1682 Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, and claims it for France and name's the area Louisiana.
In 1860 The first audible recording of a man's voice. See Here
In 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appotomax Courthouse, ending the war.
In 1867 Congress passes the bill to buy Alaska.
In 1916 WWI The Germans launch their third offensive in the Battle of Verdun
In 1917 The battle of Arras starts.
In 1957 The Suez Canal opens.

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Health Care

2010-03-22T14:23:00.000-07:00

Today our nation has passed the most radical bill in our nation's history. It was passed by a vote of 219-217. Our nations taxpayer will be paying taxes for four years for medical care that they will not be receiving. This bill will plunge us millions more dollars into debt.
In spite of all of this though God will use this for the better. This bill was passed ONLY because God allowed it to and is using it for the good. He is judging our country for the many years that we have been disregarding his word.

Romans 8:28, And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John

New Blog

2010-03-16T18:13:00.000-07:00

I have (with my friends) created a new blog that you may find interesting.

The new blog is called:

The Masterful Media

March 2nd This Day in Providential History

2010-03-02T09:09:00.000-08:00

This is what happened today in Providential History,

In 1793 Sam Houston is born.
In 1836 The Republic of Texas declares Independence from Mexico.
In 1855 Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
In 1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt at Windsor.
In 1896 Ethiopia defeats Italy in the battle of Adwa This was the first African victory over a European power.
In 1941 German Troops arrive in Bulgaria after they joined the Axis in WWII.
In 1972 The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched to explore the outer planets.
In 1978 The Czech Vladimir Remek, in Soyuz 28 is the first non-Russian and non-American to go to outer space.
In 1985 The American football player Reggie Bush is born.
In 2004 Terrorist's from Al-Qaeda carry out the Ashoura Massacre. Killing and wounding nearly 700 people.

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Feb. 16th This day in Providential History

2010-02-16T13:28:00.000-08:00

This is what happened today in Providential History,

In 1804 The First Barbary War, Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the Pirate held USS Philadelphia
In 1862 The American Civil War, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant Captures Fort Donelson in TN.
In 1923 Howard Carter Unseals the Tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
In 1968 In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
In 1985 Hezbollah is founded.

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Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)

2010-02-12T15:03:00.001-08:00

Today is Charles Darwin's birthday. He was the person who proposed the false and unbiblical theory of evolution. Here is a brief timeline of Charles Darwin's life.
On February 12th 1809 Charles Robert Darwin is born.
In 1817 Darwin's mother dies.
In 1818 He attends Shrewsbury Grammar school with his older brother Erasmus.
In 1825 Darwin's father pulls him out of school to help him in medical practice.
In 1825 He goes to the University of Edinburgh.
In 1827 Darwin leaves the medical university to go to Christ's College to study for the ministry. During this time he neglected most of his studies. He spent most of his time collecting bugs and reading.
In 1828 Darwin begins thinking about a career in natural science.
In 1831 Darwin begins to attend classes on Geology.
From 1831-1836 Darwin sails on the HMS Beagle visiting South America, Tahiti, and the Galapagos.
Darwin begins to interact with people who share his same view of millions of years.
In 1837 John Gould gave back the samples that Darwin gave him telling him that they were finches with beak variations. After that Darwin began to formulate the idea of Evolution.
In 1838 Darwin breeds domestic animals to study how change happens.
In 1839 He marries Emma Wedgwood.
During the years between 1840 and 1859 Darwin had 8 children, although several died.
In 1859 He published his book "Origin of Species."
In 1882 He died.

And that's the highlights of the person who gave the theory that is linked to abortion. And because of it Hitler, and Stalin the two biggest mass murderers of all time also were driven by the theory of Evolution. I hope in the future I can fully explain that the theory of Evolution is false and should not be accepted as fact.

Feb. 12th This day in Providential History.

2010-02-12T09:59:00.001-08:00

This is what happened today in Providential History,

In 1502 Vasco De Gama sets off on his second voyage to India.
In 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born.
In 1934 The Austrian Civil War breaks out.
In 1961 The U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.

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The Exploration Era - Part 3 Columbus's Adventure's on his second voyage. Part Three.

2010-02-04T18:06:00.000-08:00

Now I will continue where I left off on my last post.

Ojeda had snatched a king from his body guard of a thousand or more men with only ten men of his own. Several atempts were made by the Caribs to recapture their chief. But all were repulsed.

The Spanish in the new world were in great need of food and so it was a great joy to see four ships coming in the month of September of 1494.

The King and Queen sent word that they were well pleased with him. Columbus sent back his charts and strange plants that he had found. He also sent back 500 natives that he had captured.

Now the red men soon formed a league and then marched against Columbus to take back the Lord of the House of Gold. But Columbus took a small band and a score of Blood hounds that were trained to rip human flesh against the red men that were five times stronger. The natives were completely defeated.

He then enslaved many natives and forced others to pay a tribute. His main aim was to pay off the debt he owed to the king and queen of Spain.

In Spain many people wanted his position so they spread lie's about him working men to death and making others work while sick and weak.

On my next post I will finish Columbus's adventures on his second voyage.

February 4rth This day in Providential History

2010-02-04T17:41:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the things that happened today in providential history.

In 1789 George Washington is unanimously elected the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
In 1810 The Royal Navy seizes Guadalupe.
In 1998 An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afganistan kills more than 5,000.
And today a 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit California but no one was killed and it apperars that their were no buildings that collapsed.

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Jan. 27th This day in Providential History.

2010-01-27T12:04:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the things that happened today in history.

In 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world trip in 72 days.
In 1945 In World War 2 The Battle of the Bulge ends.
In 1994 the Clementine space program is launched.
In 1995 The Norwegian Rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
In 1999 a 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits Western Columbia killing at least 1,000.

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The Exploration Era - Part 3 Columbus's Adventures on his Second Voyage. Part 2

2010-01-19T16:08:00.000-08:00

Now I will continue where I left off on my last post.

Soon the saw land. Most of the natives fled after seeing the ships coming and left food that was much welcome to the hungry sailors who were with Columbus. They asked the natives when they finally came out of hiding where they could find Gold. They pointed south so in a couple of days the neared land. But suddenly as they drew near at least three score men in ten dugouts came at them yelling and meaning war. Now a young red man named Colon who knew both Spanish and the language of the red men soothed the warlike crowd with kind words and gifts. Then they drew near to isle the beach was suddenly filled with natives armed for war. Columbus decided to attack so that the natives would not think themselves more highly than them. So with their guns and crossbows they set them to flight.

Columbus called the island Santiago but now it is called Jamaica. They still thought though that they were near Japan. But the crews were sick and the ships worn down and the food was going bad.

They followed the coast of Cuba and he thought that it was the mainland of China. But Columbus fell ill and they had to return to Isabella.

Now ships from Spain arrived with fresh supplies. Columbus was extremely busy with quelling the strife between the forts and red men. One of the chiefs came and warned him that the chiefs were in league to destroy them. On top of that the Lord of the House of Gold was on the warpath. He could not easily get to his lands for they were on the other side of the island and it had dense forests, deep streams and high rocks that kept invaders out. He sent a man named Ojeda who was a man known to do daring feats. With ten bold men on horse to go and capture the Lord of the House of Gold.

Ojeda got their and became friends with the chief. He urged him to go to Columbus and treat with him. Now Ojeda also told him that if he came that he would give them the bell of the small church in Isabella. Now when the red men heard it calling for mass they thought that it spoke and the white men paid heed to it. Now the Lord of the House of Gold wanted that bell very badly so he agreed. When they left Ojeda was surprised at the enormous force of Armed men that the Lord of the House of Gold was taking with them. When Ojeda Asked why the large force was necessary The Lord of the House of Gold said that it would not do for a great prince to go out with a small train.

Ojeda feared that the Lord of the House of Gold was going to do some dark deed. Columbus either wanted to make peace with him or take him captive so Ojeda thought up a bold scheme. They came to a large stream. and Ojeda brought forth a pair of handcuff and told the chief that they had come down from the skies and were worn by the kings of Spain, and that they were gifts from them. He also said that if he put them on and cross the stream with them on a horse that his tribe would look up to him in awe. The chief was pleased to wear the bright steel and ride the strange animals. Then they crossed the stream and then they rode away as fast as they could. They made it back to Isabella with the Lord of the House of Gold in the handcuffs.

To be continued.

January 19th This day in Providential History.

2010-01-19T15:09:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the things that happened today in Providential History.

In 1807 Confederate General Robert E. Lee was born.
In 1809 Edgar Allen Poe was born.
In 1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison begins service in New Jersey.
In 1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann telegraph that proposes a German-Mexican Allaince against the U.S.
In 1977 Snow falls in Maimi, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. Snow also fell in the Bahamas.

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Jan 7th This day in providential History.

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Here are some of the things that happened today in Providential History.

In 1610 Galileo discovers four moons orbiting Jupiter.
In 1927 Thew first Transatlantic phone call is made. New York to London.
In 1942 WWII The Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.

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Jan 6th. This day in Providential History.

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Here are some of the things that happened today in history.

In 1492 the first mass happened in the town of Isabella.
In 1838 Samuel Morse successfully tests the first electric telegraph.
In 1912 New Mexico is admitted as the 47th state in the United states of America.
In 1995 A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bonjinka, a mass-terrorist attack.

These are just a few of the things that happened to day in Providential History.

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The Exploration Era-Part 2 Columbus's Adventures on his Second Voyage.

2010-01-05T15:19:00.001-08:00

In this post I will go in depth on Columbus's Second Voyage.

On December 7th, Columbus was headed for the port of La Plata, but was blown off course and was forced to land at a natural port. He was though much pleased with the place. Their were two streams one big one small the soil their was good, and the streams were full of fish. Columbus decided that he would make a town their. Soon all were put to work and all the guns, tools, and livestock. Were on shore, and soon the new town, which Columbus named Isabella after the Queen of Spain. Unfortunately many of the men were sick in their minds. They had come for gold. And since sea travel was not very comfortable they were all tired and need of rest. But unfortunately for them, their was no rest for them. Columbus himself fell ill from over exerting himself. Many others in the town also fell ill.

Soon Columbus sent the ships back to Spain. He himself was disappointed that he could not send them back laden with rich stores that would have been gained by the fort. He did though send back a little gold that had been found and some of the fruits and plants. He asked though for the King and Queen to send him food, medicines, and guns for the fledgling town. He also asked for some workmen, and men who knew how to work in mines and could smelt and cleanse ore.

He had a little earlier captured some Carib men and women. He sent them with the 12 ships he sent back from his original 17. In Spain great hopes were raised by Columbus's letter.

Back at the Isabella the men were want to return home. So some men laid a scheme to take some if not all of the five ships that were docked. Fortunately they were found out. The chief man was held in irons in one of the ships.

When Columbus recovered from his illness he and a party of men went out in search of a gold mine. On March 12th they set out. After a two or three day hike they came to a place were their was gold in the streams. The natives their were k9ind and they brought them food and grains of gold that they found in the streams. Columbus built a fort their and left in the charge of one of the Dons with 56 men. He returned to the town on March 29th well pleased with his excursion.

Soon though word came that the local natives near the fort, were about to go on the war path. Their chief's name was The Lord of the House of Gold. The fact was that after Columbus left they started to do the red men all sorts of wrongs to get their gold.

But Columbus had no fear of the fort. For the Natives had a fear and awe of the white men. Columbus did send the Don a score of men, food and ammunition. So that they could work on the road between the town and the fort.

Columbus's chief concern though was for the people in the town. Many were sick and the bread ran out and the flour ran low. Columbus then said that those who did not work did not eat. This hurt many of the young men of high rank who were to dignified to get their hands dirty. They had come to get richer but not by toil. Columbus was forced to make them work.

Columbus decided that he would go out in search of new lands. So he took the there small ships and set sail on April 24th.

I will finish this story in my next post.

Jan. 5th, This Day in Providential History.

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Here just a few of the things that happened today in history.

In 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis
In 1846 The US House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the UK.
In 1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
In 2006 Eris the largest known Dwarf Planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Micheal Brown, Chad Trujilo and David Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
In 1943 George Washington Carver died.

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Isaac Newton

2010-01-04T13:05:00.000-08:00

Today is Isaac Newtons birthday, he was a physicist, mathematician, Astronomer, alchemist, natural philosopher, and a theologian. He is considered one of the greatest scientist of all time. In 1687 he published his first work (It was actually three books.) called Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica which is Latin for Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. It is considered one of the most influential books ever written. It layed the ground work for classical mechanics. In this work Newton explains Universal Gravitation and the three Laws of Motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical Universe for the next three centuries.

Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling.

Newton died on March 31rst 1727.

Newton remains influential to scientists, as demonstrated by a 2005 survey of members of Britain's Royal Society (formerly headed by Newton) asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or Albert Einstein. Royal Society scientists decided Newton to have made the greater overall contribution to science.

The Exploration Era-Part 1 Columbus

2010-01-03T15:45:00.000-08:00

I will start a new series which I will run Parallel to my Civil War series.

The Exploration Era started when Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Sailed across the Atlantic ocean to try to find a quicker way to get to India in 1492. He had always been fascinated by the sea and sailing. He had gone to sea at ten years old. We do not know much about his early life. He made a theory that he could go westward by sea and reach India faster than the Portuguese who had to sail all the way around Africa. Most people of that day believed (even though science said otherwise) that the earth was flat and at the end of the earth were great monsters that would devour all ships that came there. But after much persistence he persuaded Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to give him ships to sail and find this quicker route to India. They gave him three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. They set sail on Aug. 3, 1492 from Palos, Spain, and on October 11, 1492, they spotted the Caribbean islands off southeastern North America. Now Columbus thought that these islands were just offshore from India. But with further exploring they realized that they were not near India. They visited the modern day islands of San Salvador, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

On the return voyage the Santa Maria, was wrecked so Columbus arrived back at Spain on March 15, 1493.

On Sept. 25, 1493, Columbus set sail with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men to find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies(Which is what Columbus called them). Columbus established a fort in Hispaniola(which now encompasses Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and sailed around Hispaniola and along the length of southern Cuba. He spotted and named the island of Dominica on November 3, 1493.

Later on a third expedition (May 30, 1498-October 1500), Columbus sailed farther south, to Trinidad and Venezuela (including the mouth of the Orinoco River). Columbus was the first European to set foot on the mainland of America, since the Viking Leif Ericcson. Also when he returned to the fort on Hispaniola it had been attacked and destroyed.

When Columbus retired he had been striped of his great title by people who wanted his glory. He died a poor man.

But he had one of the largest impacts in history. God used him to start a nation over 250 years after his death.

The Civil War Part 3 - The battle of the Ironclads

2009-10-20T15:07:00.000-07:00

The ironclads that fought in the Hampton roads were the first iron battleships. The Virginia or the Merrimack was built to break the blockade which by the way is unconstitutional because in the constitution it says that no blockade can be issued unless at war with a foreign power. But since the south was part of the U.S. and not a foreign power it was not constitutional to issue the blockade.
On March 8th The Virginia came into Hampton roads and sank the Cumberland which was a 22 gun sloop. Then the Virginia turned the Congress a 44 gun ship into an inferno. The captain of the Virginia decided he would leave because one it was getting dark two the steam frigate Minnesota had come to join the fight but had run aground so they thought they could come back tomorrow and finish off the Minnesota the next day. But when they Virginia sailed in the next morning they found that a small iron raft with a turret with two large guns sticking out of it standing between them and the Minnesota. It had been built when the Union found out that the Confederacy was building an iron ship. It had been clear that the Union Navy would need and iron ship to do battle with the one the Confederates were building. The design that President Lincoln choose was for the Monitor. It had been designed by a Swedish inventor named John Ericsson. He had designed it several years earlier, but people had laughed and said it would sink.
John Ericsson had to hurry to get the job done. He had to invent most of the pieces himself. In fact the elevator that was used to hoist the shot up into the turret was the beginning of the modern elevator. So the Virginia opened up on the Monitor but the cannonballs just bounced off the turret in a flurry of sparks. Then the Monitor's turret turned and fired heavy shot at point blank range but it did'nt go through it only slightly damaged the iron plates.
For several hours the two ships cricled each other firing shot after shot into each other. The Virginia tried to ram but they had lost most of it when ramming another ship so it did little dammage. But near the end of the battle one of the gunners aimed at the small box in the front that served as a pilot house. And that was also were the captain was standing. He fired a shell their and blinded the captain of the Monitor. But so much dammage had been taken on both sides that they both retreated. But by the end of that year both ships had sunk. The Virginia had gone back to Norfolk but Major General Benjerman Huger abandoned the city on May 9th without consulting the Navy so now the Virginia was trapped so the captain decided to blow her up, and that is what he did.
Now the Monitor sank in a storm out in the Atlantic while being transported to a new location.
But this had been the first battle between iron ships. Soon other countries began to build their own iron ships and soon the wooden ships would be outdated and old. This was one of the greatest battle in the world. It changed naval warfare forever.

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The Civil War part 2 - First Blood

2009-10-18T19:40:00.000-07:00

The first battle of the Civil War was the first battle of Manassas, on July 21rst 1861. The Union General was Gen. Irvin McDowell. The General's for the Confederate side was: Joseph E. Johnston and Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. This was the first major battle of the war. Nearly 70,000 troops were involved in this battle(US 28,450; CS 32,230). It On July 16, 1861, the untested Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run.
On the 21st, McDowell crossed at Sudley Ford and attacked the Confederate left flank on Matthews Hill. Fighting raged throughout the day as Confederate forces were driven back to Henry Hill. Late in the afternoon, Confederate reinforcements (one brigade arriving by train from the Shenandoah Valley) extended and broke the Union right flank. The Federal retreat rapidly became into a rout. Although victorious, Confederate forces were too disorganized to pursue. . Thomas J. Jackson earned the name: “Stonewall.” By July 22, the shattered Union army reached the safety of Washington. This battle convinced the Lincoln administration that the war would be a long and costly affair. McDowell was relieved of command of the Union army and replaced by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who set about reorganizing and training the troops.

A few other battles had occurred before this but this was the first field battle of the Civil War.

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The Civil War part 1 - Secession

2009-10-17T19:09:00.000-07:00

The civil war cost 620,000 war deaths, these do not include the many more thousands of civilians that were killed in the war. This was the bloodiest war up until that point in history. Many say that it was fought over slavery while others the taxation of the south, or even to save the "Union".
In this post I will talk about these three reasons and I will talk about the myth that secession is "Treason".

First I will talk about how that slavery was not the main cause of the civil war. First if Lincoln wanted to free the slaves why not do it peacefully as most of the countries did. England for example freed their slaves by paying the owners forty percent of what each slave was worth. If Lincoln had taken the amount of money that the Union spent on the war they could have freed each slave (using England's technique) and given him forty acres and a mule!
"Well what about the emancipation proclamation?" some might ask.
The emancipation proclamation was Lincolns last card as one Englishman put it. The union had lost many a battle by 1863 and Lincolns administration was gambling that their would be a massive slave insurrection, but it did have its whiplash back. As many Northerners were horrified, mobs took to the streets, 200,000 Federal soldiers deserted, another 120,000 evaded conscription, and another 90,000 men fled to Canada. Lincolns real agenda was to "Save the Union" or to centralize the power to the government and to make them sovereign and he said so in a letter to the New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley he said:

My Paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it: and if it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the union.

This letter is interesting because like a true politician Lincoln said one thing in his inaugural speech then another now that he is in power. In fact he said that he had no power to free slaves in his inaugural speech now he talks as if he could even if he thought about it.

The taxation of the south was probably the main reason for the civil war. Huge tariff's were being levied against the south. Because the south was so trade dependant, the northern businesses profited greatly from it. Many southern representatives railed against it. Calling for them to bring it down as most of the other foreign countries were.
On the eve of the firing on fort Sumter a new Tariff was about to be levied it would plunder the South without completely destroying it.

The third reason people give for the reason of the civil war is that we needed to save the "Union" so that the U.S. would not break up into smaller countries and therefore we would not be the great nation that we are to day. My answer is this. To the founding fathers secession was a fundamental principle of political philosophy. In fact the Declaration of Independence was a secession document.
Thomas Jefferson the main author of the Declaration of Independence said in his first inaugural address in 1801 said this: "If there be any among us who would wish to to dissolve this union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of safety with which error of opinion mat be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." And when his words where put to the test when a group of New England Federalists states attempted to secede from the union, Jefferson maintained it saying "If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in Union...I have no hesitation in saying 'let us separate'."
Lincolns declaration that secession would destroy the union of states and lead to "anarchy" was a lie. If they had been allowed to go in peace it would have the effect the founding fathers wanted it to have. The tariff's would go down and it would have stopped the slide to a centralized state and in the end the south would have probably favored a union with the north and 620,000 young men would have not lost their lives. As James Madison said in 1787 that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical... a medicine necessary for the sound heath of government."
Based on this evidence and much more I think that the south was in the right when they seceded. A bloody war may have been averted if Lincoln had not been a great centralizer of power and a dictator upon which I will talk about in further posts.

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The end of the war

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The end of the war came 1945 it had taken opn the pacific side over 3 million Japanese civilians lives and 2 atomic bombs had to go off before it ended it ended on the European side with the taking of Berlin.

With peace came many change Germany was split up. Europe was changed forever by this war, it was one of the most costly wars ever fought.

And Thus World War 2 came to an end.

D-day

2008-06-24T11:29:00.000-07:00

After Stalingrad, Russia began to push the Germans back into Ukraine. The Germans burned and destroyed evey thing in sight. Then while Russia was pushing Germany back the British and Americans began to land troops on D-day. The German defenses were very strong and hefty. The Allies lost many troops and here is how it happened.

The allies had been preparing for this day for a long time. So on the morning of June 6, 1944 thousands of allied troops landed on Normandy's beaches. Hundreds of our American men were killed as they stepped off the boats and were slaughtered by German soldiers with machine guns and artillery. Movies like Saving Private Ryan portray this bloody scene with an R rating (I have never seen the movie myself, but that is what I heard). Fierce fighting soon took place at places like St. Lo.

D-day was one of the bloodiest battles in they war.

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Pearl Harbor

2008-05-12T19:58:00.000-07:00

Pearl Harbor was a Japanese attack on one of our naval bases in Hawaii. No one on our side even knew the attack was coming. One eyewitness account said: "It was early Sunday morning and I heard the sound of engines I ran out and saw Airplanes with red dots and I thought must be a drill, but then the one of their planes dropped a bomb and I knew that this was real". The Japanese sank many ships, the sailors had little time to react and the Japanese struck quickly. Their plan was this, the first wave would fly in and knock out as many ships as they could.The second wave targeted the air fields and planes. The third wave targeted the dry docks and ship yards. The first wave did their job efficiently, the second the same, but the third didn't even hit. This mistake proved to be a very fatal mistake. Admiral Yamamato decided that they had done their job. The mistake was that with the dry docks still intact the could rebuild almost every thing they had lost. The americans had lost many ships but they fought on till the wars end.

They sunk many battleships, like the Oklahoma, Arizona, and Virginia. These are only three out of the seven battleships that were sunk. Three battleships were rebuilt in the dry docks.

The Resistance

2008-04-17T12:12:00.000-07:00

With almost all of Europe captured, Hitler ordered that all newspapers, radio brodcasts and mant other public doucumants to be taken over. With the newspapers and broadcasts, they controlled what people heard. With this type of persecution, many underground groups were formed. To help these forbidden groups, England smuggled weapons, poison, radios, and typewriters (which all of these were outlawed highly) in to them.

Many weaons like the ones pictured above were smuggled in by airdrop using a single engine Lysander(below). These planes would drop tons of guns and radios to help those underground.

The resistance went on untill the end of the war.

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The Holocaust

2008-02-08T13:16:00.000-08:00

This part of the war is very sobering. This time in history is known to be the most scariest and bloodiest time in all of history. When the Germans conquered most of Europe, the Gestapo or the German secret police started rounding up Jews, Slavs, and many other races that Hitler believed were inferior. He only thought that the Aryan race were fit for life. In Hitler's eyes human life was cheap. However, we are told in Genesis 1:27 "So God made man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." This verse tells us that God created us equally in his image. Hitler himself said that god sent him to deliver and glorify the Aryan race.

When the Gestapo rounded Jews up, they were put in boxcars so tightly put together that no one could sit. The ride was a three day trip. When the Jews got off they were then separated in two groups. One had all the able bodied men, and the other had all the seniors, women, and children. The able bodied men were then sent to labor camps. The seniors, women, and children were then sent to a low building that looked like a bathhouse and lullabies were played on loud speakers to calm the people down. They were then put in large rooms with shower heads on the ceiling. The last thing those Jews heard was the sound of hissing gas. Hitler murdered over 5 million Jews and over 6 million other races including Slavs, Kurds, and Arabic's. When U.S. troops saw these camps, they were horrified! It was hard to understand and believe the carnage.

These camps were heavily guarded with electrical and barbed fences plus lookout towers. There was virtually no escape and almost all of the uprisings were put down.

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The siege of Lenningrad

2008-01-12T15:17:00.000-08:00

The winter was hard for the 3 million citizens of Leningrad in 1941, the German armies had surrounded the city. Their next step was to invade the city, but the people of Leningrad had been preparing for the attack. They would go out a little ways to dig tank traps and trenches. Also surrounding the city there was barbed wire with machine gun nests weaved in at a regular intervals. But that was only the outer perimeter, inside the city there were houses that were actually pillboxes and on top of that the whole city was mined.

Then in September 1941 General Von Leebs Panzer's cut the railroad that connected Leningrad to Moscow now their only way of communicating was crossing Lake Lagoda. Now there was a problem with this route because the Luftwaffe patrolled this route regularly.

So trapped in their doomed city the people were forced to take extreme measures, people ate everything they could get their hands onto. They ate wallpaper, make-up and even leather belts. The only way to get food into the city was to travel across the ice on Lake Lagoda. Soon steady convoys came across the lake with trucks that were full of food. The truck drivers were considered as heroes. The Germans tried to break the convoy by bombing it, but nature just filled the craters right back up. The siege would continue until January of 1944.

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Kharkov

2007-12-15T07:24:00.000-08:00

Kharkov was a German attack on the town of Kharkov were Russian soldiers were stationed. The German commander Hausser ordered the 2nd SS Panzer corps (a tank division) to charge Kharkov. Then the Leibstrandarte division or the the Adolf Hitler division and other SS Waffen troops were sent in to attack this industrial city. One German described how slow the fighting was saying "Street after street house after house". Even thought the fighting seemed slow from the soldiers perspective, the Germans captured half the city in less than a day. Then on march 15th the SS Waffen defeated the last pocket of resistance.

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WW2-the early air war p1

2007-11-11T11:54:00.000-08:00

The early air war was controlled by the Germans. The Germans used this advantage and wiped out the Polish air force very easily. Their main ground attack plane was the Junkers Ju87 Stuka (shown on the top right). Their main fighter was the Bf109G (bottom right). These two planes were the back bone of the Luftwaffe.

Here is a list of the main early German aircraft:

Bf110

Fw190

Do.17

The air would be a constant battle even till the end of the war.

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WWII, PART 1 - THE BEGINNING

2007-09-26T05:42:00.000-07:00

WWII started when Hitler invaded Poland with the USSR. He and his generals were trying a new type of strategy called Blitzkrieg. This new type of warfare was fast and deadly.

Imagine your looking at a map of Poland and the surrounding countries. Here is how they invaded Poland...

The fourth Army started in north Germany, then fanned out as far as the USSR, the towns of Kutno and Plock, and a small detachment to Danzig.

The tenth army started in central Germany, and fanned out as far as the VistulaRiver and to Warsaw. While a small detachment went to Lodz.

The third army started in East Prussia and went to Warsaw and Modlin.

The fourteenth army started in Slovakia and went ot the San River.

The Polish army was conquered in a matter of weeks. The new strategy had worked! The third Reich's next target was Scandinavia. They soon had it captured. They then attacked Belgium and advanced so quickly that Belgium and British soldiers had to evacuate all of their soldiers at a place called Dunkirk. After driving out the soldiers in Belgium, Hitler invaded France. He conquered it in four weeks (they were still using the Blitzkrieg tactic). By July of 1940 Hitler's empire had tripled in size! Then Europe quieted down for the rest of the year.

Rome part 4

2007-07-24T14:46:00.000-07:00

The city of Rome was in interesting place during this time in history. The city was made up of half ordinary, common folk (plebeians) and the other were people of some respect and money.

A typical villa usually consisted of:

2 bedrooms

a dining room

a pool room (The pool got its water from the rain.)

a servants room

a hall way

a kitchen

a bathroom

a discussing room

a small garden

stables

store houses

School in Rome

Almost all kids in Rome went to school,boys and girls. They usually read on scrolls, but wrote on wax tablets. School was harsh in that you could quickly get a beating for not following instructions.

Fun in Rome

The Colosseum is where Romans went for entertainment. There they would watch people or animals kill one another. This is a crazy form of entertainment in my opinion. However, we Americans don't hesitate going to the theaters and watch Jason Bourne kill people. Are we that much different then the Romans of yesterday?

For those of you interested in weapons, here is a list of what a gladiators might use while fighting in the Colesseum:

hopolomachus sword ,shield

tracian sword ,shield

retiarius trident

secutor sword ,shield
venatores spear

The retiarius would fight the secutor. Venatores were at type of gladiator that only fought animals. The Colosseum in Rome could hold 50,000 people! It had a pool in the middle and some Palm trees in the middle.

What type of animals were used?

lions

elephants

leopards

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Rome Part 3

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Next, was the Primus Pilus. He was in charge of 700 to 800 men and 8 senior centurions. This man was shown respect for the position he held. He got paid 18,000 denarii a year. Although he was a very superior officer, he would fight as much as a Legionary. The Primus Pilus carried two weapons called a gladius, and wore a cool looking breastplate.

The Senior Tribune was the Legates right hand man. He was in charge of six Tribunes and had lots of respect. He was also in charge of all the paper work.

The Legate commanded a whole legion and never ever fought.

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Rome - Part 2

2007-06-06T05:14:00.000-07:00

I once told my grandfather (Who I think knows everything.) that the Roman pilum bends when it hits the ground and he said (to my surprise) "I never knew that."

2. The Roman army was noted for their organized military. The lowest rank soldier was an Auxiliary who was a non-citizen of Rome. They were the lowest paid soldier in the army. They were paid about 250 denarii a year. Now, it would seem like these guys would never be on the front line. However, that's not true. They were always on the front lines fighting. In addition to fighting, they were also messengers and scouts. Instead of a pilum they carried a hasta and instead of a square shield they had a round shield, which allowed them to fight in loose formations. They did not have breastplates and they were given little training.

The Legionary was paid 300 denarii per year. He was very well trained and disciplined. His weapons were a pilum (spear) and gladius (sword). He used a square shield and always fought on the front line. These soldiers, instead of loose formations, fought in tight formations like the "wedge" and others. The wedge was usually used for breaking enemy lines.

Then there was the tortoise which looked like a tank. It was so strong that once they tried to drive a cart and horse over it and it worked! Here is a picture of a tortoise.

The next soldier is the Centurion,he was paid 8,500 denarii. He is in charge of 80 men and was very cruel. In battle he would usually lead wedges. You can see he has a unique helmet. His only weapon is a gladius. The stick in his left hand he used to beat disobedient legionaries. Here were the top 4 reasons a Centurion would issue a punishment.a

1. Cowardliness
2. Theft
3. Disobedience
4. Desertion

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Rome - Part I

2007-06-05T10:35:00.000-07:00

Many people think that the roman empire was massive. Well actually, the Roman empire was smaller than the US! Now here are 10 technological edges that the Romans had.

1.Their aqueducts were probably the thing that they were known most for. They would usually start at some mountain then traveling over hundreds of miles to some city. Then a smaller one would hook up to a reservoir then the water would be shipped off by pipes to fountains, bathes, and villas.

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