What made it easier for the Confederate army to overwhelm Milliken’s Bend? A spy reported a weakness in the defenses.
The Union recruits weren’t given much time to train.
A months-long siege left the Union army with limited weapons and supplies.
American Indian troops gave the Confederacy a big advantage in numbers.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.