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5 days ago · On the night of April 6, 1712, over twenty Africans gathered in an orchard on Maiden Lane and set fire to a building in the middle of the city. When whites responded to the fire the Africans attacked them. Nine whites were killed and six were wounded. The militia was called out from the fort in lower Manhattan and from Westchester to stop the ...
2 days ago · Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery as it existed in the European colonies which eventually became part of the United States. Slavery developed due to a combination of factors, primarily the labour demands for establishing and maintaining European colonies, which had resulted in the Atlantic ...
3 days ago · South Carolina Land Grants. Appendix I. A register of grants of land in South Carolina between the years 1675 and 1765 has been preserved under the reference CO. 5, 398. The entries for 1738 have been extracted and are given below. The register records the name of grantee, place where the land granted lay, number of acres, date of grant and rent.
5 days ago · Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 7th instant, and without confining myself to the order of your interrogatories, will endeavor to answer them by a statement of my views on the subject.
1 day ago · Indiana to 1816, the colonial period. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau. OCLC 154955. Booraem, Hendrik (2012). A Child of the Revolution: William Henry Harrison and His World, 1773–1798. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1-6127-7643-9. Borneman, Walter R. (2005). 1812: The War That Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins (Harper ...
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2 days ago · Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
2 days ago · In the Foreword to A Nation of Immigrants, Kennedy’s brother Robert offered a fountain of praise for his slain brother, and “painted an idyllic portrait of immigration reform, conveniently glossing over the inherent risks and formidable challenges it posed to American society” (p. 185).
