137. InJune 1757, Pomeroon was also reported“uninhabited”(Director General,“Letter to WIC”,27 June 1757, Rio Essequibo, in: BRC, serial No. 323, pp. 135–136) and the Dutchjust in 1794(again) considered to establish a“military post”there (Council of the Colonies of the State ...
but spread out to encompass most of the lands up the Hudson River, and throughout New York and New Jersey. In 1674 the British surround New Amsterdam and threaten invasion. Their goal was to connect their Southern and New England colonies as well as acquire a profitable port city. Instead ...
Many emigrated to the American colonies and elsewhere, seeking religious freedom. Occasionally those groups would locate in close proximity and intermarry, but not marry outside of other Anabaptist denominations. Native American (Indigenous) People –all indigenous peoples found in North and South ...
Get the experience of visiting two island colonies in the same 37 square miles. Saint Maarten/Saint Martin's spicy marriage of Caribbean, French and Dutch cultures matches its physical diversity: the island is both urban and untamed, with rain forest-like landscapes, white beaches, and amazing ...
power, full of luxury goods, still lifes became an independent genre. Still lifes included domestic goods, such as cheese, herrings, beer, and butter, all symbolizing the country’s economic power. Luxurious foreign goods, imported from Dutch colonies, were included in so-calledpronkstilleven....
High and low in the townscapes of Dutch South America and South Africa: The dialectics of material culture The Dutch East and West India Companies established colonies in the Caribbean, Brazil and at the Cape of Good Hope. The resulting townscapes can be read as... M Hall - 《Social Dyna...
New York, constituent state of the United States of America, one of the 13 original colonies and states. New York is bounded to the west and north by Lake Erie, the Canadian province of Ontario, Lake Ontario, and the Canadian province of Quebec; to the east by the New England states of...
British military and naval power, under the leadership of such men asRobert Clive,James Wolfe, andEyre Coote, gained for Britain two of the most important parts of its empire—Canada and India. Fighting between the British and French colonies in North America wasendemicin the first half of th...