My ancestor Johannes "John" Snapp was a veteran of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which was the fourth of the four French and Indian Wars.↑ WarsAmerican Revolutionary WarMany of my ancestors were veterans of the American Revolutionary War: ...
After the book “fell into” his hands, Madison chanced upon a Scottish tutor namedDonald Robertson, about whom Madison would later write, “[A]ll that I have been in life I owe largely to that man.” Robertson transported the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment across the Atlantic Ocean t...
35、ether by the Articles of Confederation, which was essentially a military alliance between them used to fight the Revolutionary War. It didnt work particularly well, and after the war was over, it worked even less well. Congress had no power to tax, and as a result was not paying the...
IfStrange Highwaysisthehidden gem of the Dio discography, then can we callLock Up the Wolvesthe dark horse? The most impressive thing about this 1990 effort is that it features an 18-year-old Rowan Robertson. The young guitarist plays guitar licks that are so bluesy it's like he'd lived...
Guitarist Robbie Robertson knew the performances were special. “As soon as we kicked off the first song, it was over,” he recalled. “We weren’t even touching ground. You could see the sound covering the people. It was the greatest experience of our life. We were overwhelmed by the ...
This Robertson apparatus, however, had two major defects. The Chadwick's expanding-band clutch began to grab and chatter, and the high torque of the powerful engine against the heavily overloaded chassis put an alarming sag in the frame back of the engine. Chief McClure tried in vain to get...
(a Soldier of the Revolution) who being duly sworn saith upon oath that he fully believes the whole of the above affidavit to be true & further saith that he has been in service with James McCall above named in the revolutionary War and knew him to be true to his country. Sworn to ...
Ceylon (with spicegardens supplying tea to Thomas Kernan, agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 2 Mincing Lane, London, E. C., 5 Dame street, Dublin), Jerusalem, the holy city (with mosque of Omar and gate of Damascus, goal of aspiration), the straits of Gibraltar (the unique ...
Having just fought an eight-and-a-half-year war (the Revolutionary War) to get rid of too much concentrated power (a king), the Framers had no interest in recreating that, even with an elected government. So, they divided power. They divided power between the federal government and the ...
In 1762, Madison was sent to a boarding school run by Donald Robertson in King and Queen County, Virginia. He returned to his father's estate in Orange County, Virginia — called Montpelier — five years later. His father had him stay home and receive private tutoring because he was concer...