"Bleeding Kansas", this was a fight between North and South over Kansas and Nebraska to be a free or slave state
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Mainly Trench Warfare was popularized by the use of new mechanized weapons such as Artillery, and also because of the mass victories in the east on germany's side, Russia used these as a form of slowing them down and to protect their troops, but often these trenches hurt these men by disease, starvation, etc.
General Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) was a contemporary of Lewis and Clark and he was an early explorer of the territory of Louisiana and the area around the Arkansas and the Red rivers. He also trekked across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, and he published his findings in a book. Pikes Peak, in Colorado, was named in his honor, although he was not able to reach its summit.
I don't believe they are. I don't believe they have been proven real either.