Furthermore, where did Tadeusz Kosciuszco plan a fort?\nWhere did Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley take water to soldiers?\nPlease Help!Thanks.
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It was the battle of Guilford Courthouse (near Greensboro, NC).  While we lost that battle, Cornwallis (the English general) said that another such victory for the English and they shall lose the war.  \n\nThe "victory" at Guilford Courthouse cost so many British soldiers that Washington was able to win the next major battle -- and the war!  \n\n(FYI, this was the battle going on in the big scene at the end of Mel Gibson's movie, The Patriot.)
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Wow! Shocking dreams, I can understand why you would want to investigate further.\n\nHaving done my fair share of research on the net, I honestly think this type of inquiry is more suited to the local and state Historical Society, newspaper articles (most likely on microfiche) and perhaps trying to identify folks who have lived in the area for a long time.\n\nI'd love to suggest easy online sources, but think this is a job for some good old fashioned sluething.\n\nYou can start here:\n\nColorado Historical Society\nhttp://www.coloradohistory.org/\n\nColorado History Museum\n1300 Broadway\nDenver, Colorado 80203\n303-866-3682\n\nDenver Public Library\nhttp://www.denverlibrary.org/\n\n10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. (on Broadway between 13th & 14th Avenues)\nDenver, Colorado 80204\n720-865-1821\nTDD 720-865-1825\n\nDenver Post\nhttp://www.denverpost.com/\n\nRocky Mountain News\nhttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/
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I can't find my notes from last year but heres what i remember:\nAfter the RRR many metis died, some beatin. Two kinds of script issued to the metis, which theu didn't understand because their traditional economy didn't include money or deeds.  Metis threatened by gov't to be imprisoned if they didn't give script to speculators. many metis moved to fort edmonton, saskatchewan rivers, dakota and montana.\nif i think of anymore ill post
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It would appear that Dyngus Day was the day that boys would drench girls with squirt guns... Girls would then get their chance the following day.  \nAccording to the site listed below, it's now a big ol' Polish water war of sorts with participation by everybody.\n\nOdd, but interesting.
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MMMMM... Here in Mexico, USA enter in two points in the history classes:\n- The 13 colonies, what was it, and what they decided to revolt.\n- the mexican-american war... here teachs that all the texas stuff was a stratagem of the USA's gov to get the northen states of México 'cause they needed it for build the trnascontinental railroad. \n-the IIWW, being "the good ones".\n\nalso something about the pancho villa's raid in columbus, but with reason (american army was attacking the revolutionaries in the north of mexico, crossing the border.)
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Part One\n(revised 2.28.96)\n\n\n[Note: This is a single part of what will be, by my classification, about 240 compact tribal histories (contact to 1900). It is limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also includes those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles (Huron, Micmac, Assiniboine, etc.).\n\nAlthough this Cherokee history is larger than most, it's content and style are representative. The normal process at this point is to circulate an almost finished product among a peer group for comment and criticism.\n\nUsing the Internet, this can be more inclusive. Feel free to comment or suggest corrections via e-mail. Working together we can end some of the historical misinformation about Native Americans. You will find the ego at this end is standard size. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments...Lee Sultzman]\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLocation\nOriginal: \n\nThe southern Appalachian Mountains: including western North and South Carolina, northern Georgia and Alabama, southwest Virginia, and the Cumberland Basin of Tennessee, Kentucky, and northern Alabama.\nCurrent: \nDistributed across the United States, but concentrated in eastern Oklahoma. The eastern Cherokee still maintain their reservation in western North Carolina. The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory has almost 12,000 members and has been recognized by the State of Missouri. Other groups of Cherokee, like the 2,500 members of the North Alabama Cherokee, are located in Arkansas, Georgia, and Alabama but currently do not have federal recognition.\n\nPopulation\nEuropean epidemics introduced into the southeastern United States in 1540 by the Desoto expedition are estimated to have killed at least 75% of the original native population. How much the Cherokee suffered from this disaster in unknown, but their population in 1674 was about 50,000. A series of smallpox epidemics (1729, 1738, and 1753) cut this in half, and it remained fairly stable at about 25,000 until their removal to Oklahoma during the 1830s. The American Civil War was the next disaster and cost the Cherokee 25% of their population. No other group of Americans, red or white, suffered as severely during this conflict. The 1990 census listed 308,132 persons (15,000 full-blood) who identified themselves as Cherokee. Of these, 95,435 were concentrated in eastern Oklahoma while 10,114 eastern Cherokee lived on or near the North Carolina reservation. Cherokee tribal governments have fairly liberal membership standards, and some estimates exceed 370,000, which would make the Cherokee the largest Native American group in the United States.\n\n\nName\nThe most familiar name, Cherokee, comes from a Creek word "Chelokee" meaning "people of a different speech." In their own language the Cherokee originally called themselves the Aniyunwiya (or Anniyaya) "principal people" or the Keetoowah (or Anikituaghi, Anikituhwagi) "people of Kituhwa." Although they usually accept being called Cherokee, many prefer Tsalagi from their own name for the Cherokee Nation (Tsalagihi Ayili). Other names applied to the Cherokee have been: Allegheny (or Allegewi, Talligewi) (Delaware), Baniatho (Arapaho), Caáxi (or Cayaki) (Osage and Kansa), Chalaque (Spanish), Chilukki (dog people) (Choctaw and Chickasaw), Entarironnen (mountain people) (Huron), Gatohuá (Creek), Kittuwa (or Katowá) (Algonquin), Matera (or Manteran) (coming out of the ground) ( Catawba), Nation du Chien (French), Ochietarironnon (Wyandot), Oyatageronon (or Oyaudah, Uwatayoronon) (cave people) (Iroquois), Shanaki (Caddo), Shannakiak (Fox), Tcaike (Tonkawa), and Tcerokieco (Wichita).\n\n\nLanguage\nIroquian, but Cherokee differs significantly from other Iroquian languages.\n\n\nSub-tribes\n\nThe Cherokee have been divided into three divisions depending on location and dialect (east to west): \nLower
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http://www.lcbp.org/ATLAS/HTML/so_historic.htm\n\nThis is a pretty good US map.
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Look at these links:\n\nhttp://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Scanned%20Nominations/Lewis-Clark/LewisClark.htm\nhttp://visitmt.com/history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/summer2003/montanatraveler.htm\nhttp://www.jeffcitymo.org/jeffcityweb.nsf/e0087b5460c4a721862569c2005fa85a/364a5eec4c9be37086256e5a005e9e00!OpenDocument\n\nThere's more than enough there for you to pick 4 that sound interesting and research a little about them.\n\nBTW, if you google search for landmarks instead of masses, I think you'll do better than you were
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Description: In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation, leading ultimately to his appointment as General-in-Chief of the Union armies. \n\nResult(s): Union victory
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~I've done some research on this for you.  You have several options.  Here's a few for your perusal:\n\n1.  The Dutch bought Manhattan with glass beads\n\n2.  The Tahitians found Hawaii uninhabited and settled the archipelago\n\n3.  Uncle Sam stole Hawaii by force\n\n4.  My favorite,  the Spanish stood on the beach in Panama and claimed the entire Pacific, then got the Pope to back them up on it, much to the chagrin of the Japanese, Polynesians, Indonesians and everyone in between.\n\n5.  The British told the Maoris that they couldn't eat people anymore and starved them out of New Zealand.\n\n6.  Everybody walked into Sicily and whoever was in occupation at the time said "take it, it's yours", but nobody every wanted to keep it long (choose your island wisely, you can get a lemon)\n\n7.  The Russians simply said the Kurils are ours - not real effective because the Japanese thought it was such a neat idea, they said it too.  Stay tuned, this one's still up for grabs.\n\n8.  A more contemporary approach, the US nuked the snot out of Bikini.   (But Unc Sammy can't quite put up condos yet.  It'll be a few more months before even the cockroaches and rats can return without glowing in the dark and having 6 headed offspring.)\n\n9.    A more practical solution, in keeping with what I presume  to be your budget :  Get a shovel;  go to your back yard; scrape away all the grass and dig a hole about 6 inches deep, level across the bottom (otherwise, shape and dimensions at your discretion);  build numerous piles of dirt, stone and sod throughout the hole at varying heights between 7 and 12 inches; get your garden hose;  turn on the water and fill the hole with water to the top;  give the hole some exotic and spiffy name, call it a country and appoint yourself monarch/despot/president/god (it's your country, be whatever you want to be or can be - like joining the army); send a letter to the State Department and announce that you have declared your independence and have  seceded from the union.  Voila, you now are the proud owner of a group of islands in your own country (until the tanks roll).
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No results were found by Google for Stauchlow.\n\napparently someone lied.
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Hell, we got outside help in fighting the English for our independence.  One of my ancestors was a German with money who came over during the revolution and fought against the English.  After the war of independence, he decided to stay and married one of my direct ancestors who's family had already been in the colonies for 100 years. Sorry, I digress!\n\nSo you see, this help thing can work both ways. If you want off on Cinco De Mayo, you first have to get a Mexican to acknowledge they got help from the US against the French.   Do you think that's possible??? \n\nBoy, these Mexicans who still have jobs must have money to burn, if they can afford to take off work two days in one week, so they can attend their Mexican holidays.  I wonder if they will be waving the American flag to show their loyalty to the US on that day???
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Under the terms of the fraudulent l836 Treaty of New Echote, all Cherokee who lived within the\nCherokee Nation, were required to give up their homeland and remove west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. As of May l838, only a few had done so. General Winfield Scott arrived at Calhoun, Tennessee in command of about 7,000 soldiers to forcible remove almost l6,000 Cherokee to the west. More than 25 stockades were established in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama to be used as “holding pens” for the Cherokee until they could be marched to Rattlesnake Springs. From there, they would begin the forced march under armed escort known as the Trail of Tears.\n\n\nTsali was one of the “traditionalist” Cherokee who had not been involved in the heated debates\nover the removal policy. He lived with his wife and three sons in a cabin near the mouth of the\nNantahala River, where it flows into the Little Tennessee, near present day Bryson City, North\nCarolina. After an l8l9 treaty, he, as well as about l000 other Cherokee at Quallatown, lived outside\nthe boundaries of the Cherokee Nation. Like most of the North Carolina Cherokee, he had been\nsomewhat bypassed by the “progress” that had been made by those Cherokee who had accepted the “white man’s road after 1794. Most of the “Progressive” Cherokee lived in Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. Most of the Cherokee who lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina were “traditionalists.”\n\n\nTsali farmed a small hillside plot and hunted to provide for his family. Only now and then did an\noccasional bit of news about the troubles in Georgia trickle into this area of North Carolina. When\nthe Federal troops began rounding up the Cherokee in May of l838, it would be the primitive or\n“traditionalists” in North Carolina who made up the bulk of the Cherokee who refused to go to\nOklahoma. They had always been outside the mainstream of Cherokee “progress”, and did not live\nwithin the boundaries of the Cherokee nation as it existed from l8l9 to l838. As the historical events\nof l838 began to unfold, Tsali would become a legendary hero to the Cherokee.\n\nWhen James Mooney of the Smithsonian Institute lived with the Cherokee from l887 to l890, this\nis the story he was told. Tsali’s brother-in-law came to Tsali’s cabin in May of l838 and told Tsali of\nthe 7,000 soldiers who were rounding up the Cherokee to take them to a land where the setting sun\nbent down to touch the earth. General Winfield Scott had said that all Cherokee people must begin\nthe long march west before the next new moon. Tsali did not understand why the Cherokee must go,\nand he only thought of it for a few moments as he sat by the fire puffing his pipe. The next day he\nwent back to his fields, with little more thought of it. And while Tsali worked his fields, the soldiers\nwere rounding up the Cherokee and putting them in the more than 25 stockades, in preparation for\nthe long march west. Some Cherokee believed that Tsali began dreaming of a dream of how his\npeople might stay in their native hills. After all, that is the stuff of legends. But it is most likely that\nTsali was only concerned for his crops and a good harvest to feed his family through the long winter.\n\n\nSoon the soldiers arrived at Tsali’s cabin and told him that he and his family must go to the\nstockade at Bushnell, down the Little Tennessee River from Tsali’s cabin. The site of Bushnell is now covered by the waters of TVA’s Fontana Lake. Although Tsali did not understand, he offered no resistance. With his wife, his sons and his brother-in-law’s family, they headed toward the Bushnell stockade carrying only a few things which they had managed to put into bundles. Four soldiers escorted them. According to the story which was told to Mooney, somewhere along the way, one of the soldiers prodded Tsali’s wife with a bayonet, to quicken her steps. Tsali became angry. In the Cherokee langua
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Erm...if you want really detailed and true story...\nI suggest you to go back in time (laughs) but since so far we aren't capable of it yet, so your best shot is at archives(arkib) and going to the site and asking the locals is worth a shot and you can also try at the library but you can't actually get the full list of soldiers and people who are involved because that is like impossible even if you get the recruits names from that specific place but you must know that there are others like villagers that helped too...If you want every of their names...i think its not possible because they are villagers and their name are not recorded anywhere...\nAnd if you want the all that are involved, do you count the people that did petit jobs like maybe lke the person who cooked for the men before they fight...You see what i mean?\nAs for the dates, times, i am sure you can get from the national archives or national library...
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Any search engine will work (Google, Yahoo, etc).  You might want to narrow down the topic a bit (ex. battles in NJ, Deborah Sampson, or Fort Ticonderoga).  PBS did a television series called Liberty! which was very good, and there is also info on their website (www.pbs.org).
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I don't know how the past can be used as a valid argument, it doesnt make sense. \n             Excerpt from the History Channel\n\n                   War with the U.S.\nThe residents of Texas, then under Mexican rule, had been angered in 1829 by a governmental decree abolishing slavery, and the plan by Santa Anna to centralize the government increased their resentment. Texas rebelled in 1836 and declared its independence after Santa Anna was decisively defeated by the Texan leader Sam Houston at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. In 1846, as a result of friction between U.S. citizens and Mexicans, a dispute over the western boundary of Texas, and the desire of Americans to acquire California, the U.S. declared war on May 12 (see Mexican War). The Mexican forces were again routed, and U.S. troops occupied northern Mexico and, in 1847, Mexico City. Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb. 2, 1848, the Rio Grande was fixed as the boundary of Texas and the territory now forming the states of California and New Mexico became part of the U.S. The Gadsden Purchase in 1853 clarified the New Mexico boundary and gave an additional strip of territory (now southern Arizona and a slice of southwestern New Mexico) to the U.S. \n\nMexico was confronted with a grave reconstruction problem after the war. Finances were devastated, and the prestige of the government, already weak, had considerably diminished. Santa Anna, compelled to resign after the war, returned from exile in 1853 and, with Centralist support, declared himself dictator. Early in 1854 a liberal revolt began, and after more than a year of intensive fighting, Santa Anna fled from Mexico. The revolution was the first event in a long, fierce struggle between the powerful classes that had traditionally dominated Mexico and the liberal democrats who demanded a voice in the government.
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Where do you get your information that the settlers were stealing from Indian graves?  And if this is true, you're putting way to bad of a slant on it.  The settlers of Massachusetts were a very religious group that would just steal unless it was a matter of survival more than likely.  What would you do for your family in a life and death situation?  Don't taint our country's history by making the settlers at Plymouth sound like a group of selfish and careless people.  Their first winter was very difficult, and they had to learn how to live all over again.  As for teaching this to elementary students, I think they would be a little young to understand the whole truth.  An older group of students would be able to grasp the details better and know that nothing was malicious in their acts, whatever their acts may have been.  Regardless of the truth, it should be told.  The truth shouldn't be twisted, but made to be understood.  Obviously there are adults out there that can't grasp the meaning behind some things either.