The "Fun for the Boys" cartoon by William Bengough published on August 23rd, 1900 shows William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and William McKinley. In this anti-imperialism cartoon, these men are revising the declaration of independence and editing it. There's a ghost watching them as they do so and that is George Washington, who looks as very deep in thought.
W. Bengough is clearly against the US for acquiring the Philippines after Spain lost a war to the United States. The Philippines were outraged as they were seeking independence.
<span>The Declaration of Independence is primarily a formal declaration of "separation" issued by the United States against Great Britain, after Britain failed to meet the demands of the colonists regarding taxation. </span>
Benjamin Franklin was the one who did this.
Scorched Earth policy. The Russians burned whatever they couldn't take with them. In that period, lots of supplies were gained through scavenging and taking from the locals, but with everything destroyed, the French had no supplies bar what was being sent to them, but the further into Russia they got, the longer it took for supplies to catch up.<span />
