Assassinated

Image from History.com On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.      Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, and died while in office. He is notable for having been president throughout the American Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all slaves in the Confederacy to be free. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865 with the surrender by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Five days after the Union victory, President Lincoln attended a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.      Only minutes after the president's arrival at the play, a gunshot erupted from his box. John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln in the back of the head once, then leapt from the box to make his escape. In the process, Booth broke his leg, creating a hindrance in his ability to flee far on foot, though he managed to ...

    Image from  saint-petersburg.com . Engraving by Jean-Jaques Outhwaite.                                            On March 11, 1801, Czar Paul I was assassinated.       The son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, Paul I ruled Russia from 1796 until his death in 1801. From a young age, Paul was fascinated with the military and enjoyed drilling troops. When he ascended to the throne in 1796, Czar Paul I issued a Prussian style military drill manual that incorporated strict discipline and the use of violence to enforce correct behaviors. He also introduced several strict and outrageous rules, such as a 10 p.m. curfew in major cities, the banning of sideburns, as well as all things French, and the prohibition of the waltz, among several others. All in all, Paul I was a reactionary ruler who enforced strict rulings and...