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Guardian: Barack Obama's War: The Final Push in Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
Barack Obama has an ambitious timetable for the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. This article discusses the deployment of an extra 30,000 troops within 6 months and the withdrawal to being in 2011 and end in 2013. (22 December 2009)
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Eyewitness to History: Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
An eyewitness account of an Englishman who set sail from England to rescue soldiers on the shore of France at Dunkirk. Read about this daring plan to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian soldiers under...
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Eyewitness to History: Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
An eyewitness account of an Englishman who set sail from England to rescue soldiers on the shore of France at Dunkirk. Read about this daring plan to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian soldiers under...
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Eyewitness to History: Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
An eyewitness account of an Englishman who set sail from England to rescue soldiers on the shore of France at Dunkirk. Read about this daring plan to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian soldiers under...
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Photograph of Father Albert Lacombe Standing in Front of a Tree, Around 1913

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website is for kids, prepared by the National Library of Canada. The Kids Site of Canadian Trains explains the role railways have had in important events in Canadian history. This page on the Northwest Rebellion includes information...
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Telegram From Father Lacombe Assuring Pm Macdonald of Crowfoot's Loyalty, 1885

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website is for kids, prepared by the National Library of Canada. The Kids Site of Canadian Trains explains the role railways have had in important events in Canadian history. This page on the Northwest Rebellion includes information...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Catapult

For Students 9th - 10th
Catapult from the Roman military system. The Roman army was divided into legions, each of which contained about 6,000 men, although at first the number was much smaller. Each legion was in turn subdivided into ten cohorts. Besides the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hollow Square

For Students 9th - 10th
Military formation of the Romans, also agmen quadratum. Square formation with no troops in the middle.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abrecht Da Barbiano

For Students 9th - 10th
An Italian military officer; formed the first regular company of Italian troops organized to resist foreign mercenaries, about 1379. This organization, named the "Company of St. George," proved to be an admirable school, as from its...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Vii of France

For Students 9th - 10th
(1403-1461) King of France. During his reign , Joan of Arc led the troops and the war against Britain came to an end.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Comte De Barras

For Students 9th - 10th
A French Jacobin, born in Province, in 1755, of an ancient family; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made, about this time, a voyage to the Isle-de-France, the governor of which was one of his...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: David Wooster

For Students 9th - 10th
David Wooster (March 2, 1710 - May 2, 1777) was an American general in the American Revolutionary War. In 1739 Wooster was a lieutenant of the guard-a-costa in the war between England and Spain. He commanded the regiment in Connecticut...
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Francis John, Marquis De Chastellux

For Students 9th - 10th
French major general that led troops for the American Revolution
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Ambercrombie

For Students 9th - 10th
General Abercrombie was commander of the troops in the French and Indian War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Benjamin F. Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
General Butler was born in Deerfield, N. H., November 6th, 1818. At the time of President Lincoln's call for troops in April, 1861, he held the commission of brigadier general of militia. On the 17th of that month he marched to Annapolis...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Francis C. Barlow

For Students 9th - 10th
General Barlow, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 18th, 1834, was graduated at Harvard in 1855. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Regiment, New York State National Guard, and went to the front of the first call for troops to...

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