Academic literature on the topic 'Rhode Island Regiment'

Abstract “The great battle of the war has been fought and thanks be to God the Army of the Potomac has been victorious at last.” Elisha Hunt Rhodes of the Second Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry wrote those words in Middletown, Maryland, on July 8, 1863. His regiment, part of the Union Sixth Corps, had witnessed the climactic third day of fighting at Gettysburg from a reserve position on Cemetery Ridge. Rhodes, noting that his brigade had come under artillery fire during the two-hour barrage that preceded the Confederate army’s final infantry assault, described in his diary what he had observed: We could not see the enemy, and we could only cover ourselves the best we could behind the rocks and trees.

Abstract Around 5:30 a.m. Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside’s brigade, lead unit of Colonel David Hunter’s flanking column, finally crossed Cub Run. Four regiments formed his brigade: 2d New Hampshire, 1st and 2d Rhode Island and the 71st New York Militia.

Starting in 1912, the Italian state commenced a series of initiatives aimed at the restoration of medieval and Ottoman heritage in the island of Rhodes. Preservation programs eventually inspired a master plan for new architecture and infrastructure which could make the island well-known among and appeal to international tourists. Italian urbanism brought Rhodes into economies of colonial representation and into line with the ‘chronopolitics’ of the Fascist state. The chapter describes urban planning, tourism sites, and the re-grafting of the Ottoman past in the creation of a new cultural landscape, and discusses the framing of the island in photography, guidebooks and travel memoirs. The grooming of Rhodes implied exoticization, the making of the island into an object of colonial fascination, but also modernization and modernity for touristic consumption. Although the cultural landscape evolved alongside shifts in politics of the Fascist regime, the careful curation of Rhodes for an experience of ‘Mediterranean’ culture and holiday is one of the strongest legacies of Italy’s colonial rule in the region.

This chapter recounts the story of the year that led up to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. In western New England, rural unrest finally reached the point of armed rebellion by the autumn of 1786, leading American gentlemen to a new pitch of anxiety about the future of the republic. In Rhode Island, the popular majority pursued an inflationary paper-money policy that quickly led to violent clashes between the regime and its opponents. A group of Connecticut poets produced The Anarchiad, a vicious satirical attack on rural insurgents and popular legislators alike. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, Boston merchants combined with the Society of the Cincinnati to raise an army that would put down the rebellion. It was during these turbulent months that a network of leading gentlemen developed a radical strategy for reasserting control of the new nation, a last-ditch effort to establish the limits of American democracy.

While the Ragusans benefited from their special relationship with the Turks, the Genoese and Venetians were more cautious in building ties to the Ottoman court. The sultan was anxious not to turn them away, but they viewed the eastern Mediterranean as increasingly dangerous. Difficulties were compounded by occasional arguments between the Venetians and the Mamluk sultans of Egypt, who required ever larger amounts in taxes in order to prop up their regime. The Mamluks were also a regional threat. In 1424–6 they invaded Cyprus and carried away its king, Janus, along with 6,000 captives; a ransom of 200,000 ducats had to be paid before Janus was restored to the throne, and it is said that he never laughed again. In 1444 they besieged Rhodes. In 1460 they supported a claimant to the throne of Cyprus, sending eighty ships against the island, to the horror of Christendom, for no one could understand why James of Lusignan, a bastard, would wish to enlist Egyptian aid in a bid for a throne to which he was not entitled. As Ottoman and Mamluk pressure on these areas became intolerable, the Genoese and their rivals increasingly turned their attention towards the West, buying sugar in Sicily and Spain and grain in Sicily and Morocco. The mid-fifteenth century saw a veritable economic renaissance in Genoa, at first sight against all the odds: the city was still consumed by internal strife, but large segments of the population were able to benefit from trade and investment, and the city boomed. Especially attractive were shares in the new public bank, the Banco di San Giorgio, which eventually acquired dominion over Corsica. The loss of easy access by the Genoese to the alum mines of Phokaia in Asia Minor was compensated by the discovery in 1464 of alum mines on the doorstep of Rome itself, at Tolfa; Pope Pius II described the discovery as ‘our greatest victory against the Turk’. It reduced dependence on ‘the Turk’, and yet it did not reduce dependence on the Genoese, who switched their attention to central Italy, and built a new alum monopoly there.

The biologically-inspired method of trailing-edge articulation is investigated as a means of reducing tonal noise due to the stator wake / rotor blade interaction in underwater vehicles. This work is experimental in nature and conducted in the closed channel water tunnel at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island. Tail articulation is carried out with a life scale stator model with hinged flapping tail designed to (i) operate in freestream velocities corresponding to Reynolds number in the range 75,000 < Re < 300,000 and (ii) operate at frequencies up to 30 Hz in o