In the Ohio country, Guyashuta of the Seneca, Cornstalk of theShawnee, and White Eyes of theDelawareworked hard to steer a neutral course in the early years of the war. At the Treaty of Fort Pitt in 1778, Delaware and Americans pledged “perpetual peace and friendship.” But, after Amer...
The "first Americans" were the Indians.At the time of the discovery of America,there were about 500 000 of them in the land.But when the settlers came,they killed many of the Indians and drove the rest to the west.After the American Revolution...
After the Revolution, when he had returned to Mount Vernon, he wrote the Marquis de Lafayette on Feb. 1, 1784: "At length my Dear Marquis I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, & under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree." This phrase occurs at ...
At the time of the discovery of America, there were about 500 000 of them in the land. But when the settlers came, they killed many of the Indians and drove the rest to the west. After the American Revolution people from other countries came in great numbers. Unit 1890 most of them ...
part of the economy of the North, the Northern industrial and commercial sectors were far more developed than those of the South. After theAmerican Revolutionthe North had largely given up slavery as uneconomical, although it still took several decades for many states to formally abolish the ...
after their arrival on April 1 while they started to construct the fort. However, that did not stop the bloodshed. By the time, September 8, 1775, that Boone and his family reached the site of Fort Boonesborough along the Kentucky River, an owner and his slave in the group had been ...
After theAmerican Revolutionbegan, the first, unofficial national flag—known as the Continental Colours (or, sometimes, as the Grand Union Flag, the Cambridge Flag, the Somerville Flag, or the Union Flag)—was hoisted on a towering 76-foot (23-metre) liberty pole at Prospect Hill in Charles...
The Loyalists in the American Revolution Bibliographical Essay The best introduction to the loyalists remains, after a half century, William H. Nelson, The American Tory (1961), which anticipated the interest of the next quarter century of scholarship in both pre-Revolutionary ... CHV Tyne - Pet...
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) formed the "Committees of Correspondence" to alert the American colonists to the encroaching tentacles of tyranny. He helped organize "the Boston Tea Party," signed the Declaration of Independence, and became known as the "Father of the American Revolution." He understood...
The American Thomas Gold got in on the act. An astrophysicist, he pointed out that methane exists on planets apparently devoid of life, and theorized that methane: can from by combining hydrogen and carbon under high temperatures and pressures in the outer mantle, and after this mantle-derived...