I’m sorry, but I doubt many people would go out of their way to write a newspaper story for you.
Pope was already heavily involved in a fight against <span>Confederate Major General </span><span>Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The idea of Jackson was to keep Pope busy until reinforcements arrived from Lee who knew that if he attacked it would be an easy fight. It did happen that way in the end and Lee won.</span><span />
This is a complex issue, since there are several ways in which France became the leading power of Europe under the absolute of Louis XIV, but one major way was that they had strong colonial power, which brought in great revenue.
Colonies began fighting to overthrow colonial control over their governments
