The groundwork was laid for the creation of the North West Company by the defeat of New France in 1759 ... Scots and adventurers from the Thirteen Colonies. By the 1760's the HBC noticed a ...
About 1,200 Jacobite prisoners that would now be considered terrorists were sent to America as indentured servant ...
Perouse claimed possession of the land for France ... colonies during this time, the French faced a revolution at home, and the Spanish found themselves unable to hold onto their New World ...
By Gwynne Dyer - With the sole exception of the 50 people on Pitcairn Island, the United Kingdom (once known as the British ...
A bloody, thirteen-year revolution ... In 1794 France built upon the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and officially abolished slavery in its colonies. Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of ...
was working on improving "a primitive courier system" to connect the 13 colonies and quicken the deliveries between ...
When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies. New York achieved statehood in 1788, with the adoption of the U.S ...
Baku continues to set a precedent for countries to confront these challenges head-on, shining a light on the hidden realities ...
The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...
The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is two years away, and officials and organizations throughout Saratoga ...
The bassist and businessman asserts that he's "too rich to care" what people think of him. But he's still hungry for money, ...