Wikipedia Trail: Easter Rising to Fidel Castro


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising

I wanted to learn more about the real uprising that Yeats based his poem on, so I looked it up. They Easter rising was a group of Irish nationalists rebelling against the British power because they wanted Ireland to become independent. It only lasted six days in April 1916, and over half of the deaths in the battle were civilians. I find it really sad that most people killed were just by standers, the British forced were using machine guns so they didn't care about collateral damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare

It was mentioned that some of the rebels in the Easter Rising successfully used guerrilla warfare and I had heard that term before, so I wanted to see what it meant. The idea is a "hit and run" strategy, where you catch your opponent off guard by quickly rushing in to do as much damage as possible, and before they can collect themselves enough to fight back, rushing out to avoid casualties on your side. This is repeated over and over, whittling away your opponents numbers and keeping them unsteady.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

On the guerrilla warfare page I saw Che Guevara's name and realized I had heard his name a lot but never really knew who he was. He was a Marxist and a Cuban rebel, who stood in the rebellion against the Cuban President Batista. They were unhappy with the masses being devastatingly poor and uneducated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro

Another name I had heard but didn't know much of, so I decided to look into him. He was friends with Che Guevara, partaking in the same rebellion. He was a Leninist, Marxist, anti-imperialist and a Hispanic nationalist. He died in 2016 but the cause of his death was not revealed.

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