Kurt Vonnegut's "The Barnhouse Effect"
1. At no time were his experiments, as Premier Slezak called them, "a bourgeois (characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns) plot to shackle the true democracies of the world."
2. "Did you give it everything you had?" asked the general dubiously (in a doubtful manner).
3. Many a stouthearted patriot has found himself prone (lying face down) in the tangled bunting and timbers of a smashed reviewing stand.
4. Save for one short, enigmatic (mysterious) message left in my mailbox on Christmas Eve, I have not heard from him since his disappearance a year and a half ago.
Answer:
FALSE.
gunpowder empires were empires whose success was partly due to the chinese invention of Gun powder, making this statement false! One of the most Famous Gun powder Empires was the Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) which had great military success thanks to then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms. ~Please feel free to mark BRAINLIEST ~ :D
It was the
strategy of Attrition.<span>Washington saw, particularly
after the fall of New York in 1776, that, despite the fact that his little
armed force couldn't guard every one of the urban areas in America, its
presence only guaranteed that the revolution would proceed. Without a genuine
normal armed force, he stayed away from any definitive conflict with the expert
English forces in favor of a strategy of attrition, fighting just when the
chances were unmistakably to support him.</span>