A town of southwest Indiana on the Wabash River west-northwest of Evansville. Founded in 1814 by the Harmony Society led by George Rapp, it was the site (1825-1828) of a utopian community established by Robert Owen. The colony was known for its progressive educational, intellectual, and scie...
The English colony The New Hampshire region was included in a series of grants made by the English crown to Capt. John Mason and others during the 1620s. A fishing and trading settlement was established in 1623, and in 1629 the name New Hampshire, after the English county ofHampshire, was...
In December of 1898, in Cherew, SC, New England Wire (then known as New England Electrical Works) was incorporated. Just a few months later, the business was moved to Lisbon, NH and the manufacture of single and double silk wrapped copper wire (an early form of today’s film insulated ...
A common question concerning the states in New England is how the region got its name. Back in 1614, six years before the landing at Plymouth,Captain John Smithdeparted the first colony at Jamestown. He, along with a crew, sailed up to Mohegan Island off the coast of Maine. His journey ...
of English Puritans settled in North America, mainly inNew England. Many believed the Church of England had been insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrine, and wished to separate from the church. Called “separatists,” thesePilgrimsestablished thePlymouth Colonyin ...
WILLIAM BEINECKE: Dunkirk, yes. The British had to go to Dunkirk and then embark in any kind of craft they could get into to retreat to England, what men they could save. The Germans went right through France to the coast of the ocean in practically no time at all. So here was I,...
Slavery was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the 17th century, shortly after the Dutch first settled in the colony. The colonial system of slavery was a labor system known as chattel slavery, in which the slave was the personal property of his or her owner for life. ...
granted a royal charter of incorporation to the city in 1686 and furthered religious toleration and representative government within the colony. Following theGlorious RevolutioninEngland(1688–89), the brieftenureofJacob Leislermarked a period of intolerance new to the city and left a heritage of ...
New York was one of the13 original coloniesthat battled for independence from England during the American Revolution. Nearly athird of all Revolutionary War battles were fought in New York. TheBattle of Saratogawasconsidered a turning pointin the war. The colonists’ defeat of the British forces...
“The Maori King and the Queen of England to be joined in accord; God to be over them both.” However, Pakeha saw this “King Party” as a slap in their own royal faces, a way for Maori to stop land sales, and they were about to teach its supporters at Orakau just who owned ...