However, in the preceeding month of September of 1863, Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert, John O’Meally, John Vane and Mickey Burke had appeared at the small hamlet of Canowindra, a town that consisted of an assortment of sparse wooden buildings, including a butcher’s shop and a blacksmith situated not far from the then ford across the Belubula River, where the current John Grant bridge is today. Canowindra during this period had one substantial brick building that was built by a Mr. Collits, an extensive landholder and business man of the district and the building was rented to Mr. Pearce who operated as a General Store. The hotel patronized by the gang for the festivities during the September raid was also owned by Mr. Collits and was known as the …show more content…
(there are some conflicting views as to the right spot the bushrangers held their jubilee.) The bushrangers had departed their former area of operations in the first week of October in a leisurely manner where from the recent reports appeared to be in fine spirits, regardless of the large police presence at all points of the compass from the bushrangers. However, the Bathurst raid in the first week of October 1863, was up to this date still the most brazen achievement of the gang, but the audacity of their visit to that provincial town would now be surpassed as the five bushrangers, on the 12 October 1863, rode nonchalantly into the station of Mr. Grant, an old lag, born in Moyne, Tipperary, Ireland in 1792. He was transported to New South Wales in 1810 at the age of 18, for the crime of accessory to murder which had been perpetrated by his sister. Once free in 1820, Grant would go on to become one of the most extensive land barons of the Belubula/Lachlan Plains. Therefore, at the old age of 71, John Grant watched as Ben Hall and the gang reined their horses and dismounted, but after a short conversation the bushrangers departed and travelled the short distance onto
William Marvel. “The Making of a Myth: Ambrose E. Burnside and the Union High Command at Fredericksburg,” in The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock, ed. Gary W. Gallagher (Chapel Hill, 1995).
The Seige of 1216 and Dover Castle "THE SIEGE OF 1216 BROUGHT ABOUT LITTLE REAL CHANGE TO DOVER CASTLE.
In November Grant tested Confederate strength at Columbus by landing troops across the Mississippi River at Belmont, Missouri. The drawn battle that followed sent him back to Cairo still eager to advance, but not necessarily along the Mississippi River. Knowing of the poor location of Fort Henry, he wanted to use Union gunboats to advantage, and foresaw that the fall of Fort Henry would open the Tennessee River as far north as Alabama. Winning reluctant permission from his superior, Major General Henry W. Halleck, Grant moved south in early February. The flooded Fort Henry fell to the gunboats on February 6, 1862 and most of the garrison fled to Fort Donelson, which was eleven miles away. Grant then followed, after sending the gunboats back down the Tennessee and over to the Cumberland. In St. Louis, Halleck, a "military bureaucrat par excellence", took no official insight of Grant’s plans.
On Sunday April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant ambushed the Tasmanian tourist destination Port Arthur and heightened the Australian death toll for a single person massacre to a ravaging 35 people. The day had good, calm weather, attracting numerous abundances of tourists to the small Broad Arrow Cafe of Port Arthur in the early morning. By 1.00 pm, an estimate of over 500 visitors were at Port Arthur, although the number died down to about 60 people remaining just before Bryant’s initiation of attack. In his first few seconds, Bryant had managed to claim three young victims, an asian couple and the girlfriend of Mick Sargent, who escaped death with a grazed scalp. Using an AR15 semi-automatic rifle, Martin Bryant’s shots were clean, fast, and unanticipated - causing people to run and hide for their lives. Many males were killed in heroic attempts to shelter their wives and children from the gunfire, with some killed instantly and many left to bleed to death at a slower, more painful ra...
Canadians who had been itching to get into action for two years, were flung into battle ill-prepared and
On October 9, 1781, General George Washington surrounded General Lord Charles Cornwallis at the Virginia port city of Yorktown with 8,500 American soldiers and around 10,000 French soldiers. The bruised up British army contained only around 8,000 soldiers. The Siege of Yorktown lasted eight days, and Cornwallis had to surrender to American forces. The British loss crushed their southern army and forced them to give up on the war. The surrender of Yorktown could easily be one of the greatest moments in American history. Not only did the surrender signal the end of the war, but it also signaled that independence had been won by the colonies. No longer would the colonies have to answer to Great Britain and the tyrants that ruled it.
On October 16, 1859 , a Sunday, the time that John Brown usually commenced a Bible reading to start the day. Brown was a man that had dedicating himself to funding anti-slavery campaigns and was prepared to use any methods necessary to secure victory to be rid of slavery. One of his first moves against pro-slavery actions was the raid on Harpers Ferry. Brown had his plan staged out, he had ordered his men to detain anyone who spotted them. Luckily for Brown, they swiftly came to the bridge over the Potomac River and detained the bridge's guard, William Williams. Then came the misstep, the Ohio-Baltimore train had arrived and Brown stopped the train and out of all the chaos Browns, men killed the night
In Battleford, Saskatchewan an Indigenous man, Colten Boushie, was fatally shot and murdered by Gerald Stanley, a caucasian Saskatchewan farmer in August of 2016.
Rifleman Dodd is a light infantryman in the English army. England is engaged in a war with France throughout the Portuguese countryside. Matthew Dodd is a veteran who has survived several campaigns over five years of service. On several occasions Dodd encounters a French sergeant, Sergeant Godinot. Sergeant Godinot is a platoon sergeant who is trying to get his men through the war safely. He also tries to keep their morale up by promising his men that they will soon find his uncle who is a commanding officer for a French unit in Portugal.
...n for his condition after the fire, Robert would have been in prison for his actions. Instead, his almost lifeless body was guarded all day, even though it was stated by doctors that he would never be able to function or be capable or reason again. Or treason again. Second Lieutenant Robert Ross was a tyrant or pioneer. “Bastard” or “hero”. This is for us to decide for ourselves.
The year he moved, at an Aboriginal Rights demonstration, Mcleod became known for ‘arresting’ Francis Herbert Moy, the assistance secretary of the Department of Aboriginal affairs, at gunpoint. Later he himself was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm. He was charged $40 and put on a good behaviour bond but only because the gun was not loaded at the time of his arrest. Later that year, in an interview, Mcleod said: “I would die for my people, I’m not afraid of that.” His actions at the Aboriginal Rights demonstration may have been influenced by his grandfather, who was the first Aboriginal Stipendry
When Jesse was 14 years old, his brother Frank went off to fight in the war and joined the Quantrill’s Guerrillas. The Quantrill’s Guerrillas was a group of men from Missouri that formed a company of the Confederate Army. These men would hide in the bushes and woods and then ambush Union soldiers. The name bushwhackers came from these men. One day while Jesse was doing his farm work, many Union soldiers came to Jesse’s house. They tore up his house and attempted to hang his step-father, Dr. Samuels to try to get information out of them about the Quantrill’s Guerrillas. Jesse and his family didn’t tell where they were so the soldiers left. This made Jesse very angry. He went and found Frank and the Guerrillas and talked them in to letting him join at the age of 14. He rode
Successful leadership on a battlefield can be measured in different ways. It is possible for a good, successful leader to lose a battle. Conversely, it is possible for an ineffective leader to win a battle, given the right circumstances. What distinguishes a successful leader from an unsuccessful one is his/her ability to oversee an operation using effective mission command. In ADP 6-0, mission command as a philosophy is defined as “as the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations” (ADP, 1). William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory, executed good mission command in the Battle of Tippecanoe because of his ability to effectively utilize the doctrinal tasks of “understand, visualize, describe, direct, and lead” operations.
The story an Occurrence at Owl creek bridge, shows how a man , named Farquhar when
McCullough explains how Johnstown became an example of ‘The Gilded Age’ industrialization prior to the 1889 disaster. The canal made Johnstown the busiest place in Cambria County in the 1820s. By the 1850s the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Cambria Iron Company began, and the population increased. There were about 30,000 people in the area before the flood. The Western Reservoir was built in the 1840s, but became generally known as the South Fork dam. It was designed to supply extra water for the Main Line canal from Johnstown to Pittsburgh. By saving the spring floods, water could be released during the dry summers. When the dam was completed in 1852, the Pennsylvania Railroad completed the track from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and the canal business began its decline. The state offered to sell the canal, the railroad company bought it for the right of ways yet had no need to maintain the dam, which due to neglect, broke for the first time in 1862. McCullough stresses that man was responsible for the...