Sentences with phrase «revolutionary war era»

After the brilliant naval missions in Assassin's Creed III were so well - received, the teams at Ubisoft Montreal left Boston harbor and the Revolutionary War era, and set sail for a Pirate - plagued Caribbean of 1715 — a time when legends like Blackbeard gained infamy for plundering, pillaging, and littering islands with buried chests and dead bodies.

«In the colonial and revolutionary war era, [small - arms] weapons used by militiamen and weapons used in defense of person and home were one and the same.»

Not exact matches

The concept of «organic» was simple but revolutionary in the post-World War II era.

What he fails to draw out is that the British aristocracy was porous, and despite the challenges of the War of the Roses, life under the Tudors and the French revolutionary era they had allies and accomplices, drawn from the gentry and the middle classes, and a sizeable portion of the working class.

As you can see, the creators of this mailer have taken some liberties with the Democratic assemblyman's face, Photoshopping it onto the body of a Revolutionary War - era soldier clad in a Redcoat with the headline: «Meet the Benedcit Arnold of Westchester County Property Taxes: George Latimer.»

ALBANY, NY (11/01/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today announced that the «Freedom's Treasures» exhibit, a rare display of Revolutionary War - era and early nation period historical artifacts, including a handwritten draft of Washington's Farewell Address, will be open to the public at the State Capitol's ceremonial Red Room, from 10 AM to 4 PM on November 10 - 11.

Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech - loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly revolutionary introduction of armored ships and railroad networks, and the merely tantalizing deployment of submerged warships and reconnaissance balloons.

Some offerings include State Politics, Revolutionary Era, World of Late Antiquity, US Constitutional History, Gender and Reality Television, Political Parties, and The Cold War.

-- cover everything from Revolutionary - era riffs and the War of 1812 to Civil War injustices and the heated rise of roller derby.

Accidents of Providence tackles hypocrisy, both sexual and political, and invites us into the revolutionary taverns and chaotic courtrooms of civil - war - torn London, introducing us to the faithful and adulterous, the idealists and opportunists, of an era not so unlike our own.

First inhabited by native peoples 20,000 years ago, the island was recognized for its strategic value as a military fortress in the Civil War era, and later catalyzed the Native American Red Power movement with the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971.

From its inception as a military fortress during the Civil War era, to the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes during the 1960s, to its standing today as one of the country's most popular National Park sites, the history of Alcatraz is fascinating to discover.

First inhabited by native peoples who arrived more than 10,000 years ago, the island was recognized for its strategic value as a military fortress in the Civil War era, and later catalyzed the Native American Red Power movement with the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971.

«As the crucial hinge between Post-War World II American Art and all that came after, Johns is arguably as important as any artist of the twentieth - century,» gushed the catalogue entry in a fit of hyperbole that this viewer finds ridiculous as nothing in the Post-World War II era can equal the revolutionary and sensational achievements of the first 20 years of the 20th Century highlighted of course by Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism.