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Canada: Mining

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Mining provides important minerals and fuels for energy production.

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Colonial Frontier: French Jesuit Missionaries (2:14)

French missionaries infiltrated American Indian societies with great success. The French presence sparked a bloody Indian war that forced France to send troops.

Colonial Frontier: New Lands for France (2:43)

Joliet and Marquette discovered the Mississippi River. LaSalle later traveled down the river and established Louisiana along its banks.

Colonial Frontier: Catholicism in New France (1:49)

France’s strict immigration and settlement laws hindered colonization efforts since they restricted the rights of non-Catholics.

Colonial Frontier: France Loses Canada (0:35)

France’s inability to form permanent settlements allowed the British to seize its northern territories and its most important trading route.

Canada: Mining (0:38)

Mining provides important minerals and fuels for energy production.

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In a speech to the Houston Presidential Summit, Senator Hillary Clinton recounts the beginning of Houston's oil-based prosperity. Learn more about Houston in this video.

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Witness the invincible B-17, the first Flying Fortress to complete 25 missions in WWII.

The Fall of Corregidor (0:22)

Vichy French propaganda film "The Fall of Corregidor," circa 1942.

WWII Major Fronts: D Day Campaign (2:51)

These highlights are from an army documentary about the division's campaigns in World War II

Vietnam Operations 1966 and 67 (4:32)

These clips are from an army public affairs film that covers the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967.

Vietnam 1966 and 1967 (2:12)

These clips are from an army public affairs film that covers the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967.

Fortress in the Sea: Bataan Death March Survivor (1:31)

From "Fortress in the Sea": Bataan Death March survivor remembers

20th Century Battlefields: 1951 Korea Imjin River (2:40)

Our father and son team pay tribute to the bold stand made by a British brigade along the Imjin River in April, 1951.

Last Battles on the Winter Line (2:49)

Allied forces smash into some of the last strong points of the Winter Line, January 1944.

Monte Cassino: Plan of Operation (3:14)

The Allied plan to breach the Winter Line and break out toward Rome.