The Mongol invasions of Japan failed because Typhoon winds destroyed the Mongol fleet. The Mongols failed to conquer Japan even though they had successfully conquered the much larger land of China and also Korea. The typhoons that saved Japan did not even happen just once but twice ! Both times that the Mongols set out to conquer Japan, their fleets were destroyed by typhoons. Japan was geographically in luck and also helped by nature.
No, it is false that first battle at Bull Run (Manassas) convinced the Union Army they could defeat the Confederates, since this battle ended with a Confederate Victory.
The First Amendement (Freedom of Speech) was the basis for Charles Schenck's 1919 Supreme Court arguments that his distribution of flyers and leaflets during WWI to promote draft resistance among young men was Constitutional.
Schenck was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917. The Supreme Court upheld the decision finding that draft resistance in the midst of WWI was unconstitutional.
<span>Doménikos Theotokópoulos most widely known as El Greco, was a painter, sculptor and Michelangelo's influence can be seen in later El Greco works such as the ... However, the king did not like these works and placed the St Maurice ..... These are the words Meier-Graefe used to describe El Greco's impact on the artistic </span><span>
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A. Andrew Johnson was president from 1865 when Lincoln was assassinated to 1859, where he lost reelection to Ulysses S. Grant.
