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I can't seem to find a person in American or world History that is really interesting, spectacular, and is a leader, but not well known!! I need to be able to find artifacts, documents, and pictures of this person!. I am doing a BIG project, and I am running out of time! Can you PLEASE give me any advice on who I should do!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer!. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen!. Tesla is often described as the most important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth"!.[3] He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries!. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution!. Contemporary biographers of Tesla have regarded him as "The Father of Physics", "The man who invented the twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity

After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America!.[6] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance!. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture,[7] but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist!. Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86!.

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Here's an idea that is really off the wall, but it's 100% true!. Try Benedict Arnold!.

Yes, Benedict Arnold, the despicable traitor of the Revolutionary War!.

Here's the deal with Arnold: before his treason, he was actually an aggressive, highly effective combat leader in the American forces!. The most important battle of the Revolution was Saratoga in 1777, which directly led to France joining the American cause, without which it could not have been won (look up "The Battle of the Capes" for an explanation of that)!.

The American general in charge at Saratoga, Horatio Gates, was an incompetent buffoon who could never have won the battle with his own strategy!. Arnold defied his blundering general, leading the American troops in a bitter battle in which he was wounded, but which ultimately resulted in the capture of an entire British army and its commanding general!. Without Arnold's bravery and leadership at Saratoga, the British would surely have prevailed, France would not have decided to intervene in a lost cause, and all history to follow in North America and beyond would have been vastly different!.

Gates' enmity toward Arnold intensified after Saratoga, and he did everything in his power to make life miserable for the new American hero!. That was a primary cause for Arnold's decision to defect to the British!. There were others, and he is by no means to be excused for it, but nonetheless, without his leadership at Saratoga, an independent United States in the 18th century most likely would not have happened!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Robert E!. Lee

He was a great american and the epitome of a southern gentleman but he is a rather tragic story because he was a general in the confederate army and has a bad reputation as a result even though he did not own slaves and saw slavery as a "moral and political evil!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

Americans
Homer Hickam - movie October Sky was about his life
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce - I will fight no more forever
William Dawes - the other rider on the night of Paul Revere
Aldo Leopold - father of conservation movement, national parks with T Roosevelt



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