Not all Jews consider others less than them. While they are God's Chosen People, they are still human and under the same scrutiny as anybody else. If...
How much do you think the death of Stonewall Jackson affected the outcome of the war? From what I remember, it definitely was one of the things that...
Well said, skyblue. Too many people these days don't realize that. Things like Affirmative Action don't help people with darker colored skin. All...
I don't remember much specific to the War of Northern Oppression, but I do know that espionage has played a part in almost every conflict since the...
For all the jokes about stupid Southerners, they've always had more of a military mindset than their Yankee counterparts. Yes, they lost the war, but...
After the Revolution, I believe it was in the Continental Congress, a woman whose husband was killed in the war came to the government asking for a...
Agriculture not something to be praised for its own sake? Apparently you don't like to eat. I don't know that I've got a "favorite" founding...
While many who lose faith in a cause turn to the other side, it is no excuse for the action. I won't claim to know much about Arnold besides the name...
Going back to the original topic of the amount of money spent by Washington to pay spies, it costs a lot of money to make the risk worth it to...
Any country that helps another during a war feels that there is something in it for them. Sometimes it's being able to trade with that country. Other...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_%28American_Revolution%29 and other sites I've seen estimate that around 20% of the colonists were loyalists....
Even with the help of France, the colonists were still not anywhere close to a match for the British on the seas. If the colonies hadn't been at...
As pie said, knowing that other countries were helping out at least a little bit surely helped the common man on the front lines in those periods of...
The irony of the French situation is that initially, they ended up worse off after their revolution (Napoleon) than they were before.
Technology was a factor, but not so much new technology as the fact that the colonists and Brits were more or less on the same page in the tech they...
While the death of soldiers is always an effect, the amount that it affects a people as a group depends. I'm sure the American colonists who lost...
I just finished "The Jericho Sanction" by Oliver North. Next on my list is a re-read of "Star Wars Rogue Planet", and then either "Assassins" by...
The Jews did not steal the land from the Palestinians; many Jews were removed from the land by the Romans in 70AD and others were moved into the...
The loyalists may not have had much of an impact in the overall outcome of the war, but in all likelihood, the war would have been shorter if they'd...
As much as the heart of the Revolutionary soldiers and leadership came into play in fighting the war, they did need supplies. The countries in Europe...
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