New Model Army

Examples of New Model Army in the following topics:

• Cromwell and the Roundheads

  • As King of Scots, James had become accustomed to Scotland's weak parliamentary tradition and the new King of England was genuinely affronted by the constraints the English Parliament attempted to place on him.
  • Having dissolved Parliament in 1627 after it did not meet the King's requirements and threatened his political allies but unable to raise money without it, Charles assembled a new one in 1628.
  • The new Parliament drew up the Petition of Right and Charles accepted it as a concession in order to obtain his subsidy.
  • Nicknamed "Old Ironsides," he was quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to being one of the principal commanders of the New Model Army, playing an important role in the defeat of the royalist forces.
  • The victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army over the Royalist Army at the Battle of Naseby on June 14, 1645 marked the decisive turning point in the English Civil War.

• The Debate over Preparedness

  • Neither the Army nor Navy was ready for war.
  • Despite the flood of new weapons systems unveiled in the war in Europe, the U.S. army paid scant attention.
  • In this, a long-term plan was created, one that would double the Army and increase the National Guard.
  • Summer camps on the Plattsburg model were authorized for new officers.
  • Army was negligible and the new warships would not be at sea until 1919, by which time the war would be over, with Germany victorious.

• Colonial Armed Forces

  • However, the minuteman model for militia mobilization, married with a very professional, small standing army, was the primary model for the land forces of the United States up until 1916 when the National Guard was established.
  • Members of the militias, however, were not included in this new mode of training.
  • Through the remainder of the revolution, militias moved to adopt the minuteman model for rapid mobilization.
  • These soldiers would have been a part of the Continental Army rather than militiamen.
  • These American militias were an important supplement to the Continental Army.

• The American Rally

  • Victory gardens and the Women's Land Army of America were important contributions to food supplies during World War I..
  • Another wartime group, the Women's Land Army of America (WLAA), was created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military .
  • The WLAA was modeled on the British Women's Land Army.
  • Women entered new roles in the U.S. workforce during the first World War, working in factories and managing other important homefront volunteer efforts.
  • Describe how Victory Gardens and the Women's Land Army of America contributed to food supplies at home during World War I.

• The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

  • In the Allied 6th Army Group area, the US Seventh Army assaulted across the Rhine in the area between Mannheim and Worms on March 26.
  • In the south, while Third Army headed east, the First Army headed northeast and formed the southern pincer of the Ruhr envelopment.
  • Ninth Army (assigned to Montgomery's British 21st Army Group) headed southeast forming the northern pincer, while the rest of 21st Army Group went east and northeast.
  • Army Group made its eastward thrust, General Devers′ 6th U.S.
  • As the operational commander of some of these forces was Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the new Reichspräsident (head of state) of the Third Reich, this signaled that the European war was over.

• The American Military Forces

  • The Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army in June 1775 and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief.
  • On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army, raising 22,000 troops from the Boston area and 5,000 from New York.
  • On June 15, 1775, George Washington was elected as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
  • Washington was never financially compensated for his service as Army Commander.
  • Popular support for the war was at an all-time low, and Washington had to put down mutinies both in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lines.

• Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

  • In the early stages of the American Revolution, battles over Quebec, New York, and New Jersey played an important role in the war.
  • The failure of the Continental Army to hold New York strengthened Loyalist sentiment in the region.
  • After both British and Continental Army troops entered their winter quarters in early January, Continental Army forces from New Jersey and Pennsylvania engaged in numerous scouting and harassing operations against British and German troops quartered in New Jersey.
  • The Continental Army was bolstered during these skirmishes by a large number of militia from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
  • Evaluate the successes and failures of the Continental Army in the first year of the war.

• Features and Attributes of a Product

  • This is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business to its customers.
  • The concept phase is where ideas for new features are considered.
  • Various models exist, with different tool combinations for specific tasks designed for everyday use.
  • The simplest model sold includes only a single blade, the most complicated model features many extra tools like: a smaller second blade, tweezers, toothpick, corkscrew, can opener, bottle opener, slotted/flat-head screwdriver(s), phillips-head screwdriver, nail file, scissors, saw (regular, wood), file, hook, magnifying glass, ballpoint pen, fish scaler, and so on.
  • While containing an incredible amount of different features and uses, this model has lost one of the primary characteristics of the original Swiss army knife, that of portability.

• The Battle of Chattanooga

  • After winning a series of battles in the Chattanooga Campaign, the Union Army was able to invade the South.
  • In September 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland, under Major General William S.
  • He briefed Grant immediately after the new commander's arrival, and Grant enthusiastically endorsed the plan.
  • The loss caused division within Confederate Army leadership.
  • The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign and the Army of the Cumberland.

• New Media

  • Facebook is an example of the social media model, in which most users are also participants.
  • The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over the world and the Internet.
  • The Zapatista Army of International Liberation of Chiapas, Mexico were the first major movement to make widely recognized and effective use of new media for communiques and organizing in 1994.
  • Of course, some are also skeptical of the role of new media in social movements.
  • Explain the influence of the new media on politics and social movements