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  2. María Ruiz de Burton - Wikipedia

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    She is considered to be the first Mexican-American author and the first Mexican-American author to write in English. [1] María Ruiz de Burton was important in literature because she addressed crucial issues of ethnicity, power, gender, class and race in her writing. [ 2 ]

  3. List of authors in war - Wikipedia

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    James Jones (author), 25th Infantry Division, United States Army, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal (From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line) Lt.Col Jorma Karhunen, Finnish fighter ace and Mannerheim Cross awardee, a notable fiction and history author; Cyril M. Kornbluth, United States Army.

  4. List of wars: 1800–1899 - Wikipedia

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    This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.

  5. List of Mexican-American writers - Wikipedia

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    Mary Helen Ponce, author of The Wedding (1989) and the collection Taking Control (1987) [1] Estela Portillo Trambley (1936–1998), author of Trini (1986), the play The Day of the Swallows (1971) and the collection Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (1975) for which she became the first woman to receive the Quinto Sol Literary Prize. [1]

  6. List of war correspondents - Wikipedia

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    Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916); covered the Spanish–American War, Second Boer War and the fighting on the Macedonian front during World War I. Robert Edmund Strahorn was a fighting war correspondent in The Great Sioux War of 1876–1877. Stephen Crane (1871–1900); covered the 1897 Greco-Turkish War, where he contracted tuberculosis.

  7. Hirose Takeo - Wikipedia

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    When Japan went to war against Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Hirose was assigned to the battleship Asahi as torpedo officer. However, during the Battle of Port Arthur he volunteered to command the Fukui Maru , an old cargo vessel which was used as a blockship during the second unsuccessful attempt to blockade the entrance to Port ...

  8. History of Mexican Americans - Wikipedia

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    In New Mexico, wealthy Mexican American crop-farm families openly supported the slave-owners of the South, perhaps due to their own reliance on the forced labor of Native Americans. [90] Across the country, Mexican Americans felt resentment toward the U.S. because of the ethnic discrimination they experienced after the Mexican American War.

  9. Russo-Japanese War - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese were on the offensive for most of the war and used massed infantry assaults against defensive positions, which would later become the standard of all European armies during World War I. The battles of the Russo-Japanese War, in which machine guns and artillery took a heavy toll on Russian and Japanese troops, were a precursor to ...