History of the american whale fishery from its earliest inception to the year 1876. by alexander starbuck. Archives of oituary listings from Funeral Alternatives of Maine, serving Lewiston, Falmouth, and Augusta with low-cost, simplified services. This article addresses the history of transgender people in the United States. Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline: (Special Edition) Finished Timelines and Scenarios. Charlotte, Charlotte Russe & Charley Roosh According to the food historians, charlottes were *invented* in England the last part of the 18th century. Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline: (Special Edition)The Roaring Twenties. Excerpts from Oliver Lark, George Patton: Proletarian Soldier (London: Doubleday, 1. Of one thing there is no doubt, and that is the simple fact that George Patton lived an extraordinary life. Born into an aristocratic conservative family in California on 1. November 1. 88. 5, Patton would go on to serve with distinction in the First World War, advancing to the rank of Colonel in the American Expeditionary Force. While serving, he helped pioneer the use of armoured warfare, innovating tactics and strategies would later become staples in the American military. Facing the hardships and horrors of life in the trenches, Patton, like so many others of his generation, came home a changed man. Mexican Americans - History Le-Pa. SIGNIFICANT IMMIGRATION WAVES When compared to various periods of the twentieth century, Mexican immigration to the United. He soon renounced his birthright, became estranged with his wife and family, and joined the Workers Party of America, all within a few short months of returning from France in 1. Patton, along with his close comrade David Eisenhower, had set the pattern for so many World War veterans. They went off to war committed to their nations cause, and came home subversives.. The sheer number of career military officers in the United States Army who professed belief in Socialism after the Great War is simply astounding. While no reliable figures can be found to establish the exact percentage, estimates range from fifteen percent to as high as twenty- eight percent! 1583. 1600. 1607. Virginia. The first permanent English colony on mainland America was founded by the Virginia Company of London and called 'Jamestown, Virginia. Sections; Top Stories; Video; Election; U.S. World; Entertainment; Health; Tech; Lifestyle; Money; Investigative; Sports; Good News; Weather; Photos; Shows. Shows. Whatever the rate, it is clear just how much the American polity and her military were rotting by 1. Patton was hardly alone in his beliefs in the army, and as his letters show, he formed a discussion club among trusted comrades from the army to correspond on politics.. In one such letter, Patton writes to Eisenhower, confessing about his experiences in the Great War. Dear Ike, he writes: It was at Chemin- de- Dames that it hit me with the force of revelation. Our Mk. IVs had bogged down in the German auxillary trench, and the Jerries soon came down on us with artillery, followed by an infantry attack. We soon ran out of ammunition for our tanks machine guns, and we had to fend off the last of their assault hand to hand, with knives and bayonets. The kids we bayonetted, they couldnt have been older than sixteen or seventeen. I felt old, and worn out. And as relief came, and we finally had a moment of peace, I suddenly realized I had no idea why I was here, or why I was butchering young German boys, or why they were doing the same to us. This categories contains AP US History notes for the American Pageant, 12th Edition textbook. Additional Information: Hardcover: 1134 pages; Publisher: Houghton. For 100 years, ASCAP has protected songwriters and composers while providing them with a livelihood. ASCAP music touches billions. The ASCAP100 campaign features an. I didnt know whether I could believe in my country anymore, or even believe in God. While the exact details of Pattons conversion from Christian soldier to atheist communist remain to the imagination, the documentary evidence suggests that it occurred shortly after the end of the Chemin- de- Dames campaign, while Patton was on a three- day pass in Paris. Pattons letters, and own recollections preserved on archival film suggest that during that time, Patton met up with a French socialist group. One of the few details that are known is that the group was composed of some number of dissident intellectuals, as well as a number of veterans of the French army, discharged as amputees. Patton, now semi- fluent in French, conversed with this group about the political issues of the war and economics for from anywhere from a few hours to whole evening, depending on the account. Upon returning to the front in early June of 1. Patton spent the next few months in command of an infantry battalion in the 1. Infantry Division. Morale was dismally poor, and the troops were under provisioned. Though he had been a stern taskmaster before, he was twice reprimanded by superior officers for fraternization in this period. Thanks to the pressing manpower situation, and his exemplary record, there was no official disciplinary action. His own memoirs mention an event during this period. A group of NCOs threatened mutiny in response to their orders to go over the wall, unprepared, and attack German lines as part of an upcoming offensive. This conspiracy happened within earshot of a junior officer, who promptly reported it to Patton. Rather than follow standard army protocol and arraign the ringleaders before courts- martial as examples to other potential mutineers, Patton spoke with the conspirators personally. The conversation that followed was downright treasonous: Patton suggested they keep their heads down, and not find themselves in front of a firing squad now so that they could survive the war, and turn their guns on the ones responsible for putting the army in this situation. The first self- reference of socialist belief would not come until a diary entry nearly a month later. He writes tepidly in favour of socialism and its brotherhood of man, and suggests at an imperial nature in the First World War, impugning the motives the national leaders of the Allies as well as the Central Powers. In perhaps the strongest language seen from this previously gentlemanly character, he calls the current president, Woodrow Wilson, a pompous old jackass and a capitalist running- dog. Where he picked up such an obviously German construction is impossible to tell.. Like many radicals of his generation, it was the Bolshevik Revolution that ultimately steeled his convictions in socialism. His correspondence after the war contains many recollections and conversations about the aforementioned event. One such letter was written to John Reed, praising his work on Ten Days That Shook the World, and propositioning a collaborative history of the Soviet Revolutionary Wars, a project that later became the infamous three volume history compendium, written with Reed and Leon Trotsky, the charismatic exile from the very regime he helped build. A History of the Soviet Union, from Birth to Betrayal is perhaps the most oft- cited history of the early Soviet period, and became one of Pattons fixations from 1. From the end of the First World War until the beginning of the Revolution, Patton found himself living a double life. His loyalties were ambiguous after a few incidents, but thanks to some personal recommendations from General Mac. Arthur, the Armys internal affairs division considered him to be still a reliable officer in spite of his socialist sympathies. This mistaken impression was made possible by the turmoil of founding of the Comintern. When the Socialist Labor Party restyled itself as a Comintern Party, records of Pattons membership in the party disappeared. Patton himself portrayed it as a matter of leaving the party over its radicalism. Because of his knowledge, and the strong vouchers for his reliability to the army, the unorthodox officer was considered to be the best candidate to investigate and infiltrate subversive groups within the Army, and to spy on domestic political groups. While on paper he was part of the near defunct Armor Corps of the US Army, in practice Patton served as an important officer for Army Intelligences domestic spying, both on civilians and in the military. Unbeknownst to his superiors, Patton had never left the party. Instead, he had joined the underground party apparatus, and spent much of the 1. Army Intelligence. The outcome of his deception would ultimately prove disastrous for the Army, and the coup hed made against Army intelligence with the network of radicals he had clandestinely shielded in the Army would prove a decisive factor in the coming civil war. Patton was certainly not the only party member to have turned espionage on its head. Indeed, several other important figures in state police organizations, the US Marshals Service and the National Bureau of Investigation are now known to have been, or suspected to have been party members in the 1. Some have spun such a web of lies and half- truths that the real story will never be untangled. The uncertain loyalties of the infamous Public Safety chief J. Edgar Hoover are a staple of crime and mystery fiction to this day. But arguably, the central role that Army played in the civil war, and the crucial role that Patton and his comrades played in the Red victory make Pattons game of smoke and mirrors the most important. The following excerpts were from the chapter Political Realignment in the Long 2. American history textbook. Co- written by Illuminatus_Primus) Political realignment in Late Capitalism, brought on by parliamentary constitutional reform and the growth of workers power, resulted in an increasing inability of the liberal bourgeoisie to maintain control of the old Republicans and Democrats in the tug of war between conciliatory reformists and far- right reactionaries and radical populists. Party society fragmented dramatically in the Long 2. By 1. 93. 0, the Democratic Party and Republican Party together accounted for only 5. The highly regressive electoral system of the U. S. Constitution, though highly weakened by the increasing marginalization of the Senate upper- chamber and the introduction of bourgeois responsible executive government in the popular chamber, remained intense. The old gerrymandered single- member plurality congressional districts were highly disproportional. Therefore, victory counts for the major parties and for choice fusionist tickets often belied the total votes casted for marginal parties and schismatic groups. The WP and DFLP accounted for more than their votes suggested, even via united fronts and fusionism with local and small sect groups, though not to the hegemonic extent of the major bourgeois parties, due to rampant fraud and continuing repression and gerrymandering It is important to remember that before the revolution, one of the major controls of popular democracy was the redistricting system. The lower house of the Old Republic had seats apportioned to the states on the basis of population. But these seats were all single- member constituencies, which are a rarity post- revolution. Because of this, the boundaries of the districts greatly affect the outcome.
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