Despite Canada's obvious disadvantage given it's sizen as well as the youth and inexperience of it's soldiers, Canada was automatically entered into global conflict along side the British in 1914. The given circumstances lead to over 60,000 deaths through out the course world war one. Young Ca...

Thomas Edward Lawrence, called Lawrence of Arabia was born in 1888 and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Thomas was born in Tremadoc, Wales , and attended the University of Oxford. In 1910 he went on a archaeological expedition to the ancient Hittite city of Carchemish (located in Turkey)...

Old glory means everything to me. It means freedom, the right of privacy, and to be equal. When I look at the United States flag I remember the coloines of soldiers fighting against the British. When this thought of having freedom comes to me I'm so overjoyed to know I can drink a soda-p...

As the British Empire spread its dominion across the seas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, great masses of people poured forth to populate its ever-widening realms. Their migration unfolded in stages. They journeyed from farms to towns, from towns to great cities like London and Bristol,...

JOHN PAUL JONES John Paul Jones was born on July 6, 1747 right near Kirkcudbright Scotland. He was the first American naval hero. When he said his famous words, "I have not yet begun to fight"; they became famous throughout the world. When John was only 12, he signed to learn an a...