Atticus has been asked to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. It is a case he cannot hope to win, but he tells Scout that he must argue it to uphold his sense of justice and self-respect.
Columbus approached the Spanish throne. He set sail 1492. He also set sail from the port a Palos. He took three ships the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain demonstrated the courage and resilience of the country's military and its people and allowed them to remain free from Nazi occupation. It also enabled the Americans to establish a base of operations in England to invade Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
On this day in 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deploy kamikaze<span> (“divine wind”) suicide bombers against American warships for the </span>first <span>time. It will prove costly–to both sides</span>
Verdan was the city in northeastern France that had these causalities<span />
