Although the Rhode Island Committee of Safety issued Letters of Marque and Reprisal, the Rhode Island Navy was primary a defensive force protecting the New England colonies trade in local waters. To honor Rhode Island’s early naval efforts and current connections the Navy has named some ten ...
(top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars; the 50 stars represent the 50 states, the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies; the blue stands for loyalty, devotion, truth, justice, and friendship; red symbolizes courage, zeal, and fervency, while white denotes purity and ...
Place-name expert and author James Philips writes that Hood “was called ‘the Englishman who won the war for the colonies’ because of his failure to pick up Cornwallis’ troops as pre-arranged, thereby leaving the general to defeat in the decisive battle of Yorktown.” Lord Hood also sig...
The path to political independence — the struggle to separate the colonies from the British Empire — began long before the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. As John Adams later wrote: “The revolution was affected before the War for Independence commenced. ...
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Being one of the last European countries to unify in 1870, Italy was late in arriving to the "scramble for Africa" wherein other powers, notably Great Britain and France, were expeditiously establishing new colonies on the African continent. Shortly after unification, a wave of nationalism swept...
Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered before I went to university; I hadn’t really acknowledged what his death – or the lack of justice for it – meant. Whilst the term ‘institutional racism’ had been coined, it didn’t resonate with me and was something that just happened...
Notable occupants include Mary Chilton, the first woman to step off the Mayflower; Paul Revere’s compatriot, William Dawes; Ralph Waldo Emerson’s father, William Emerson; Hezekiah Usher, the colonies’ first publisher; and the first governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop. Joseph Tapping’s ...
The new colony also served as a buffer between the Spanish in Florida and the rest of the English Colonies to the north. The actual person that laid out Savannah, though attributed to Oglethorpe, and the actual germinating seed for the idea, are hazy, but the original city plan of Savannah...
__ What is the name of the lines that run vertically across the map? E. latitude Grade 5 Colonial Period All of the original thirteen colonies were British. True False Grade 9 Ancient History What developed during the Neolithic period that allowed for the formation of cities? pottery...