He was seeking a route to Asia. He sailed west from Europe. His exploration led others to North America. He DID NOT sail on behalf Frace but he did sail on behalf of Spain. It DID NOT take place during the 1600 but it took place during the 1400s.
The preamble of the United States Constitution is the following: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The Schlieffen plan was a plan to win a swift victory over France, by engaging massive military German forces and invading Belgium and Luxembourg, in order to overwhelm French defensive capabilities. The idea was that the implementation of such plan would force the French army into a decisive battle that it would lose and Germany would be able to dictate favorable conditions to a shocked French republic.
The plan was devised by Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen. It did not yield all the expected results. Although France suffered heavy losses, Germany was unable to stop the strategic, fast retreat of French forces to heavily defended positions and the war evolved into a very long trench was of attrition.
In my view, speed was the only way such plan would have worked. Had the Germans used all the mechanized troop transportation systems it could muster, the French army would have been encircled and cut from its strategic rear and the Germans would have forced them into surrendering.
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The issues that gave rise to the "Velvet Revolutions" in Eastern Europe in the late-1980s were the economic and social crises that took place in the communist nations that were part of the Warsaw Pact, by means of which the quality of life and economic conditions of the inhabitants of these nations deteriorated notably.
Thus, these "velvet" revolutions were called as such due to the non-violence with which they developed, as they were carried out in a peaceful manner and without confrontations between citizens and the police, army and other government representatives.
In most of the nations of Eastern Europe, such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Bulgaria, among others, these revolutions followed this pacifist pattern that finally ended up ending the communist governments in the region.
