Joan of Arc has achieved many accomplishments throughout her life like becoming the heroin for the Hundred Years War for the French with the help of God and her visions. She was told by a couple of Saints that she needed to help with the duty to get rid of France from the English. Although Joan was young, she was determined to achieve the callings that were given to her and abide by her God. She provided stability and support to the troops of the army which shaped them into becoming better soldiers. To this day, Joan of Arc is viewed as one of history's most noteworthy holy people and an image of French solidarity and patriotism.
While writing The First Salute, her gripping account of the American Revolution, Mrs. Tuchman struggled with the onset of blindness. With help from her daughter, she persevered to complete the volume that included a leader who truly inspired her. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Mrs. Tuchman spoke of how much she admired George Washington’s courage and perseverance despite the enormous obstacles he faced and how she and her daughter encouraged one another with the rallying cry, “remember George.” George Washington, like all effective leaders, communicated an inspiring vision and lived it, valued people and gave them a voice. Under his leadership the colonists pulled off one of history’s greatest upsets by defeating the preeminent military power of their age with an under-trained, under-resourced
Throughout history many people have said stupendous things that has shaped the world for the greater good. Susan B. Anthony’s speech was an incredible, well thought out speech. It inspired and motivated women that they to needed the right to vote. That they needed to be treated as equally as american men. Another amazing speech that happened during the Civil war was a speech given by Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain during the three day Battle of Gettysburg.
Wollstonecraft uses her encompassing settings to affect and further identify with her gathering of people in her contentions. The inspiration to compose Vindication originated from the disputable reaction to Wollstonecraft 's prior article, Vindication of the Rights of Man. This specific article was composed in 1790 as Wollstonecraft 's own interpretation of the scholarly dialogs in France and England after the French Revolution and talks about the difference of the privileges of man with the substances of lady. Mary Wollstonecraft was a liberal women 's activist, frequently alluded to in the scholarly world as the "principal women 's activist" and the "mother of women 's liberation".
Countess Constance joined the ICA in 1913, for the reasons of protecting workers and protestors from the police. James Connolly mentored Constance, as she was one of the first joining members, and had a significant role in developing her political ideology. In 1927, the Countess reinforced this as she stated in ‘The Nation’ newspaper “when he began to organise the Irish Citizen Army he brought me along, teaching me”. James Connolly and the ICA provided motivations for involvement in the Easter Rebellion as the Countess dedicated her life to what she considered to be helping others and to the fall of British rule. The Countess believed that the ICA was working towards a better future for Catholics who were discriminated against, and for the freedom of Ireland.
In “The Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck developed Ma Joad as the matriarchal hero of the story. Ma Joad is the mother of the Joad family who exhibits her matriarchal heroism in many ways throughout the story. She endows people with hope, takes on leadership roles, and keeps the family bonded together. Before Ma Joad left with her family from Oklahoma to go to California. We saw her as a person who looked towards the men for guidance.
She was an active supporter for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) and the American Civil Liberties Union (1920). She also campaigned for government regulation of the conditions under which people worked, for unemployment insurance and for women 's right to vote (U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library). Addams would become a key figure in the international peace movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1915, during the First World War, she and women from both neutral and involved nations met to try and stop the war. She remained a pacifist as the United States entered the war in 1917, and she founded the Women 's Peace Party (WPP) to protest the conflict.
As the eldest sister, Patria is introduced as a motherly figure toward her sisters. She married at a young age and was happy being a wife and mother. Her Christianity is central to her character, and although it was tested due to the death of her stillborn child, a retreat in the mountains with her church group profoundly affects both her faith and her view of the rebellion. At the retreat, Patria witnesses a young rebel, not much older than her own daughter, being shot and killed by Trujillo’s guard force.
She led more slaves and was seen as a beacon of hope for their people, earning her the nickname of Moses. In 1858 she assisted an abolitionist named John Brown to recruit people for a raid on Harper 's Fairy. This gained her even more recognition and was allowed to server in the Civil War. She became a nurse and scout for the Union and helped lead
The Second Anglo-Powhatan War was fought from 1622 until 1632, pitting English colonists in Virginia against the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco, led by Opitchapam and his brother (or close kinsman) Opechancanough. After the First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614), which ended with the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, the English colony began to grow. The headright system begun in 1618 granted land to new immigrants who, in turn, sought to make their fortunes off tobacco. As English settlements pressed up the James River and toward the fall line, Indian leaders devised a plan to push them back and, in so doing, assert their supremacy over the newcomers.
North-West Uprising The North-West Uprising was a battle between the Canadian government and the people living in the North-West. The uprising was caused by a series of events. The government was slow in handing out land grants and treaties to the Métis, land was devoted to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and the rights were not known to the Métis. Métis/Natives tried to solve matters out peacefully with John A. Macdonald.
In 1817, a woman called “Wild Rose” or “Rebel Rose” was born in Maryland. When you think of a spy you probably think of a man. During the 1800’s, men were seen as the only gender to have the capability to be bold and manipulative enough to gain such secretive information. Rose had all of those endowed on her except that she was not a man but a woman. She earned the role of one of the most acclaimed spies in the history of the Civil War for her work.
In the fall of 1781, Colonial and French troops attacked to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. Led by George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau, they began their final attack on October 14th, capturing two British defenses and leading to the surrender, just days later, of British General Lord Cornwallis and nearly 9,000 troops. Yorktown proved to be the final battle of the American Revolution, and the British began peace negotiations shortly after the American