I'm very interested in pursuing a personal research project concerning French troops in America during the American Revolution. I've been attempting to locate where original manuscripts by some of these soldiers might be, but I don't really know how. I've run into this problem of finding primary source documents many times throughout my research. Are there any specific websites, certain archives, or general pieces of advice that can help me? Thank you very much in advance!

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Were the Spartans as dedicated to war as is usually represemted and were they truly the greatesg warriors in Greece?

Hello. I'm in the process of researching Russia's criminal underworld from 1900 to 2000 for a paper (worth around 40% of my semester grade). While I have found some sources, I'm severely lacking sources for different periods and could use some help.

Specifically, I request information about these topics in these time frames:

• 1900 through the End of Communist Russia (Anything within the original timeframe)
• Held Political Power (Specifically in Communist and Soviet Russia)
• Criminal Culture (Specifically in Communist and Soviet Russia)
• 1900-2000 (1900-1998 Works Too) (Anything within the original timeframe)
• How Russia's Government Has Tried to Stop Crime (Anything within the original timeframe)

Any source is fine; however, digital text (Websites, E-Books, ect.) is preferred. Thank you in advance.

I was always quite hasey on this. I was told many Naitive Americans died off once Europeans made contact with them, due to disease. I do tend to hear a lot of people mentioning that Christopher Columbus was genocidal, but I never actually learned about any accounts of him killing Natives. Did he do these things unprovoked? Was most of these death unwarranted? What mistreatments did Christopher Columbus do to the Natives?

I was wondering if there was a merging of West and East German laws and institutions. Or if after reunification the West German laws and institutions started applying in East Germany as well.

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I know there were planes used by Germans to trap them troops at the beaches. But assuming they've all gathered at one place in massive numbers, if one bomb dropped onto the most vital part, they could've been all killed very easily! Instead he let most of them escape.

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The Safavid Empire was, for a time, one of the most important empires in the Muslim world, along with its neighbors, the Mughals and the Ottomans. Yet it fell quite easily to a small group of Afghan tribesmen. How come?

I know that Christianity was the religion of the slaves and peasants in Rome. However, I am unsure of the key events to this social change (i.e. What was it like when the first Christians were going around? When was it outlawed and why? Why were Christians persecuted? How did it become the main religion of the Roman Empire?

I am interested in any and all accounts. I would particularly like to hear the experiences of a line soldier from the 1700s-mid 1800s. i felt like seeing people get shredded next to you and being expected to stand still would rattle people to the core. That being said, I would not be surprised if there are accounts from the beginning of written history.

Just as the title suggests, I was curious about how accurate most war movies depicted actual battles during medieval times. Did both sides just meet in the middle and swing their swords and shields around until the last man standing?

Examples include Game of Thrones and Braveheart for context.

Would anyone be able to link some primary documents they would recommend? And I'm having some trouble both online and in libraries trying to find who all was at the treaty signing; where would I look to find all the diplomats and government officials involved? I cannot read Russian or Japanese unfortunately, but the paper is mostly centered around certain American aspects of the event.

If anyone could help (or if there is a subreddit more suited to these recommendations) I would greatly appreciate it! My project spanning the entirety of this semester is a make-or-break for history majors and I will take any help through additional sources I can get.