In 1793, England declared war against France, and the young United States desperately wanted to stay out of the conflict. In 1794, the U.S. and England signed theJay Treaty, which cemented peaceful relations between the nations a decade after theend of the Revolutionary War. This angered the...
What war was happening in The Cay? What happens at the end of "The Small Assassin"? What happens at the end of 'Farewell, My Lovely' ? What happened at the end of the book Just Mercy? What happens at the end of The Storyteller?
What war was in The Wednesday Wars? What is the rising action of The Wednesday Wars? What is the setting of The Wednesday Wars? What is the irony in The Wednesday Wars? What is the resolution of The Wednesday Wars? What is the main conflict in The Wednesday Wars?
In 1793, it was disassembled and moved to the site of the current Flint bridge. Since the town was not paying for the removal work, the crew reused most of the wood and stone buttments from the North Bridge site at the new Flint bridge. The North Bridge block that I received a...
It might sound like something out of “Sesame Street” but the XYZ Affair was, in fact, a diplomatic incident between France and America in the late 18th century that led to an undeclared war at sea. In 1793, France went to war with Great Britain while America remained neutral. Late the...
In battle, too, guns were used and understood as instruments of terror. They were not aimed; soldiers loaded and fired in unison. It was through their “noise…smoke” and threat of “invisible death” that they revolutionized war, according to the moral philosopher Adam Smith (1776; 1994,...
The Buttonwood Agreement was a 1792 compact to create a stock exchange in New York City, signed by 24 stockbrokers and merchants on Wall Street.
Before the Civil War, the issue of slavery and the tensions between the North and the South was evident in America. In order for there to be a balance between the Northern and Southern representatives in the Senate, there would have to be an equal number of slave and free states within ...
which would give them a foundation for war. One of the most shocking events occurred when one-quarter of the nation's army surrendered in Texas under the command of General David E. Twigg. Not a single shot was fired in that exchange, but the stage was set for thebloodiest warin America...
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