New York was originally part of New Netherland. This Dutch colony was founded after Henry Hudson explored the area in 1609. He had sailed up the Hudson River. By the following year, the Dutch began trading withIndigenous peoples. They created Fort Orange located at present-dayAlbany, New York...
Birthplace: Popes Creek, Colony of Virginia, British America Height: 6'2" Dig Deeper Everything George Washington Ate On A Daily Basis As President Also ranks #1 on The Most Important Military Leaders In US History Also ranks #2 on The Greatest US Presidents Of All Time, Ranked 1,267 vote...
Leadership of the colony by Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates kept the colony going between 1610 and 1616, and the colony began to grow strong after John Rolfe began his experiments with tobacco,Nicotiana rustica, to make it more palatable to the English taste. When a royal family member of the ...
Department of Psychology, Hunter College of CUNY, New York; Department of Entomology, The American Museum of Natural History, New YorkJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.EthologyTopoff H, Cover S, Greenberg L, Good- loe S, Sherman P. 1988. Colony founding by queens of the obligatory slave- making ...
James Oglethorpe, Founder of Georgia colony Using his recent successes, Oglethorpe recruited other significant leaders to create a new colony in America with specific regulations that would eliminate some of the problems of London society. When King George III (1732) granted the Georgia charter (name...
The geography of opportunity: spatial heterogeneity in founding rates and the performance of biotechnology firms Some Population Genetic Consequences of Colony Formation and Extinction: Genetic Correlations within Founding Groups
Colony defensive behavior by the swarm-founding wasp Parachartergus pseudoapicalis: increase on investment predicts the intensity of nest defense The parental investment (PI) theory predicts that Brito,E.,L.,... - 《Insectes Sociaux Bulletin De Lunion Internationale Pour Letude Des Insectes Sociau...
The uninterrupted history of Black people in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English colony of Virginia. These individuals were not enslaved people but indentured servants—persons bound to an employer for a limited number of years—as were many of the settl...
When political debate with England was followed by armed clashes in 1775, Marshall, as lieutenant, joined his father in a Virginia regiment of minutemen and participated in the first fighting in that colony. Joining the Continental Army in 1776, Marshall served underGeorge Washingtonfor three years...
Theindependentstatesclaimthepowertolevywar,makepeace,makeallianceswithforeignnations,conducttrade,andtodoanythingelsethatindependentstateshavetherighttodo.ThenewlyindependentstatesbelievethatGodwillprotectthemintheirventuretoestablishajustgovernment.Thecitizensofeachcolonyhavepledgedtheirloyaltyandlivestothecauseofthenewly...