HISTORY

A DESPERATE BATTLE

2020-08-03 admin 0

Jim Bowie was a great fighter. He was a strong man and he was never afraid. He fought with his famous Bowie knife. He killed many Mexican soldiers. At the end of the day, three […]

On April 21, 1836, General Sam Houston and his army attacked General Santa Anna. General Houston made General Santa Anna prisoner. Santa Anna then signed a treaty. This treaty said that Texas was independent! Everyone […]

MEXICO LOSES MORE THAN HALF OF ITS TERRITORY

2020-08-02 admin 0

Santa Anna signed the treaty with the Americans when he was their prisoner. The government of Mexico did not recognize the treaty. But in 1845 the U.S. annexed Texas which Mexico said was Mexican territory. […]

DAVY CROCKETT: THE CREEK WARS (CHAPTER TWO, part 1)

2020-06-27 admin 0

Everyone liked Davy Crockett. He was always happy, with a big smile. He was honest and always helped others. Davy was a tall man. He wore a coonskin cap, buckskin trousers, and a buckskin […]

DAVY CROCKETT: YOUNG YEARS (CHAPTER ONE)

2020-06-26 admin 0

Davy Crockett was born on August 17th, 1787, in Greene County, Tennessee. In 1787 America was a new nation. Most of the territory was a wilderness. Davy Crockett was born in the wilderness. His […]

AND WHERE IS WINSTON CHURCHILL’S PHOTO?

2020-06-15 admin 0

See? Winston Churchill has vanished from Google’s timeline of British Prime Ministers.Google has apologized and says it is looking into what went wrong.• We apologise for any concern. This was not purposeful and will be […]

SAMUEL PEPYS AND HIS DIARY

2020-06-14 admin 0

Samuel Pepys (1633 – 1703) “Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain…” Source of the extract from the diary […]

HAS THE HAND OF A VANDALIZED MONUMENT APPEARED TO STRIKE BACK?

2020-06-13 admin 0

Regrettably, today monuments are being defaced and pulled down one after another in many parts of the world. In Great Britain and the USA, this epidemic of vandalism seems to have infected more people than […]

REREADING THE DECAMERON

2020-06-12 admin 0

The Decameron [dɪˈkæmərən] is a collection of short stories by a XIV century author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book tells us about a group of young men and women who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence to […]