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- American Civil War (47733 bytes)
14: |Result||Defeat of seceding CSA
44: !colspan="2" |Casualties
53: ...om all remaining states to recover the forts, resulting in the secession of four more states: [[Virgin...
55: ...y after the [[Baltimore riot of 1861|rioting in Baltimore]] and other events had prompted a federal de...
58: ...t of this MO detail should go in sub-article--> Although Kentucky did not secede, for a time, it decl... - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
41: *[[1804]] - [[Aaron Burr]]/[[Alexander Hamilton]] duel
49: *[[1807]] - [[Robert Fulton]] invents [[steamboat]]
60: *[[1812]] - [[War of 1812]] begins
61: *[[1812]] - [[Daniel Webster]] elected to [[Congress]]
62: *[[1812]] - [[Louisiana]] becomes a state - Ohio (19444 bytes)
44: ...States as the [[French and Indian War]]. As a result of the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]]...
50: ... official date of statehood did not begin until [[1812]], with [[Louisiana]]'s admission. So, on [[Augus...
72: ...ated [[Allegheny Plateau]], and then by another belt known as the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. Most...
82: ... processed foods, tools, and other manufactures. Although Ohio is one of the leading industrial states...
84: ...is the site of the invention of the airplane, resulting from the experiments of the [[Wright Brothers]... - Metronome (3057 bytes)
4: ...dicate metronome markings in his music, in 1817, although the extremely fast markings he put on some p...
21: ...|electronic musical keyboards]] have their own built-in metronome function. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|restoration...
13: ...he Revolution). European monarchs found it difficult to reinstate pre-revolutionary [[absolute monarch...
14: ...iefs and aristocracy, but on the basis of human culture, origin, and ideology.
15: ...ntention to create a single European state, and, although Napoleon's defeat set the thought of a unifi...
28: ...ombatants are difficult to find, but in September 1812, Russia had about 904,000 enlisted men in its lan... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ... [[Kings of Spain]]. This Inquisition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s a...
26: ...of all these threats, in August of [[1480]] the Sultan had attacked [[Italy]] itself, at the port of [...
38: ... the allegations, in the desire to appropriate wealthy Jews' lands, property and valuables.
42: ...oved during [[Napoleon]]ic rule ([[1808]]–[[1812]]), but reinstituted when [[Ferdinand VII of Spai...
44: ... - 2,000 were actually sentenced to the death penalty, as latest scientific research has found out - t... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...ndence movement, the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May 3]] as well as le...
6: ... prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned an...
14: ...ge." This goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height with [...
16: ...f with the mechanics of physical observation, resulted in a coherent system of verifiable predictions ...
20: ...stressed that the world was accessible to the faculty of human reason, and that the "laws" which gover... - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...large, sea-going [[watercraft]], sometimes with multiple decks. A ship usually has sufficient size to ...
4: ...man Empire|German]] ships and [[barque]]s were built partly for [[prestige]] reasons.
12: ... vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously unstable condition. Additiona...
21: ...educed the requirement for fresh water, and the multiple expansion engine, which improved efficiency. ...
25: Most ships built since around [[1960]] have used diesel power or [... - Wildebeest (2915 bytes)
10: ... = [[Hinrich Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein]] | date = 1812}} - Impala (1708 bytes)
13: ...= [[Martin Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein]] | date = [[1812]] }} - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
9: | preceded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
32: ...d>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]</td></tr>
51: ...the office upon the death of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
58: ...last president not to earn a [[college]] degree, although he studied for two years toward a law degree...
61: ...t at Ft. Sill, would pay dividends after the war, Lt. James M. Pendergast, the nephew of [[Tom Penderg... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ferson]] as for his [[duel]] with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[t...
14: ...Haven]], where Benedict Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[A...
18: ...[shipwreck]] off the Carolinas in the winter of [[1812]] or early [[1813]]. Aaron Burr and his first wif...
20: ...y which was hopefully not lost on the younger Hamilton.
24: ... he defeated a favored candidate -- Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law, General [[Philip Schuyler]] --... - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
5: ...ht the [[United Kingdom|British]] in the [[War of 1812]]. By December he had risen from [[Private (rank)...
9: ...avily the entire time. Following a trial for assault in Washington he left the Cherokee and his wife t...
11: ...harton and his brother. He also attended the Consultation of [[1835]]. He was made a [[Major General]]...
24: ...61]] following his refusal to take an oath of loyalty to the [[Confederate States of America|Confedera... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
26: ...lk survived the risky surgery, enjoying better health during the rest of his life.
35: ...ilver]] over [[paper money]], and preferred agricultural interests over industrial ones. This behavior...
37: ...s]], with the latter often subjecting Polk to insults, invective, and challenges to [[duel]]s.
65: ...along the [[49th parallel north|49th parallel]]. Although there were many who still clamored for the w...
67: ...e precise "spot" where American blood had been spilt. Such technical points, however, were largely ign... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first known perm...
8: ...king [[Ashoka]], contributed greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a ser...
14: ...or rose to power, especially in the relatively sheltered south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourishe...
17: ...|Sanchi stupa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]]
20: ...oy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in India coming under the direct rule of the Br... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
14: The first steam [[locomotive]] was built by [[Richard Trevithick]], an English engineer, i...
16: In [[1812]] [[Oliver Evans]], a [[United States]] engineer ...
18: ...llow him to build a steam-powered machine. He built the [[Blucher]], the first successful flanged-whe...
22: ...d rail technology improved, and railroads were built in places where canals were not practical.
24: ...[[Metropolitan Line|Metropolitan Railway]] was built to connect several of these separate railway term... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
21: ...n a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in...
23: ...ollowed by continuous development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Cl...
25: ...Boulton and Watt steam engine]], and on return built the ''North River Steamboat'' (often called the [...
27: ...undas'' were taken up by [[Henry Bell]], and in [[1812]] the [[PS Comet|''Comet'']] began a passenger st...
30: ...oats on the major American rivers soon followed Fulton's success. [[Mark Twain]], in his [[Life on the... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
27: ...ly. They also plundered all the coasts of the [[Baltic Sea]], ascending the rivers of Eastern Europe a...
31: ... Sea. By 642 they invaded southern Italy and assaulted Siponte in [[Benevento]]. Their raids in the Ad...
39: ...aritime trade in both the [[North Sea]] and the Baltic Sea was seriously in danger of attack by the pi...
50: ...n the one side stood the Muslim-ruled [[Bahmani Sultanate]], and on the other stood the Hindu kings ra...
52: ...f_world_history/v012/12.2risso.html|title=Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Piracy: Maritime Violence in t... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
13: After the [[War of 1812]], Lafitte was active in the Neutral strip of coa...
17: ...Parish, Louisiana]]) interprets the natural and cultural history of the uplands, swamps, and marshland...
21: ... plank. No such event is known to have occurred, although there are unsubstantiated legends that Lafit... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...as completed, and functioned perfectly. It was built to tolerances achievable in the [[19th century]],...
8: ...mprehensive school still extant today, but his health forced him back to private tutors for a time. He...
12: In [[1812]] Charles transferred to [[Peterhouse]], [[Cambri...
16: ...ey had eight children, but only three lived to adulthood. Charles' father, his wife Georgiana Babbage,...
29: ...ror. This idea may have come to him as early as [[1812]]. Three different factors seem to have influenc...
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