• The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. (umich.edu)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and government correspondence of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763), commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America (1763-1775), and Governor of Massachusetts (1774-1775). (umich.edu)
  • The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. (reenactor.net)
  • In a speech early in 1775, he remarked that the colonists "…could not fight…", and declared that he could "go from one end of America to other and geld all the males. (revwartalk.com)
  • Before he became an evangelical for independence from Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin proposed a partnership between England and the American colonists to help spread the enlightened empire throughout the Americas. (fff.org)
  • But they agree on what they're against: the attempt by Great Britain to impose their own will on the American colonies, without the colonists' consent, initially to tax them, then to legislate for them in all ways. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • when the Native Americans, English, French, and colonists, fought for control of the Great Lakes and its waterways. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • ¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Events across the ocean continued to influence the lives of American colonists. (americanyawp.com)
  • He met enslaved Africans ravaged by the Middle Passage, Indians traveling south to enslave enemy villages, and colonists terrified of invasions from French Louisiana and Spanish Florida. (americanyawp.com)
  • ¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 1 Wars offered the most common means for colonists to acquire Native American slaves. (americanyawp.com)
  • What unified the colonists and what divided them at the time of the revolution. (ipl.org)
  • No matter how many times the American colonists attempted to resolve things through petitions, remonstrations, and arguments the British were right there, smiling insidiously, but only proved to snare their feet. (ipl.org)
  • Swept up in the struggle were the inhabitants of New France, the British colonists, the Native Americans, and regular troops from France and Britain. (battlefields.org)
  • Foreign nations allied with the American colonists and later declared war on Britain, making the conflict international. (reenactor.net)
  • The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists overthrew British rule. (reenactor.net)
  • More generally, Latin America has been a US sphere of influence and playground for US invasions since the early 1900s - Lyndon Johnson's invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and Bill Clinton's threatened invasion of Haiti in 1994 being two recent examples. (fff.org)
  • Latin America is not high on the radar of European politicians with the exception of Spain and Portugal. (unblog.fr)
  • These last two countries of course having the closest ties, they are the usual suspects to look to Latin America for economic opportunities and political ties. (unblog.fr)
  • In many ways both Latin America and Europe have been heavily influenced by the French Revolutionary years and the Rule of Napoleon, albeit in different ways than in Europe. (unblog.fr)
  • It was only in the course of the 19th century when the picture started to change and a general interest in Latin America developed, to a significant extent due to the explorations by Alexander Von Humboldt at the turn of the 19th century. (unblog.fr)
  • After the 1970′s, Europe's interest in Latin America slowly but gradually declined, in a way commensurate with Europe's own waning influence in the world. (unblog.fr)
  • Latin America became a playground between the Soviet and American hegemons. (unblog.fr)
  • So in many ways, the current disinterest in Latin America fits within a larger picture of benign neglect or sometimes even lack of knowledge from Europe towards the Continent. (unblog.fr)
  • America is a 1924 film about a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War . (wikiquote.org)
  • On this expedition, he became acquainted with others who would also play larger parts in the American Revolutionary War: George Washington, Francis Marion, and Hugh Mercer, among others. (revwartalk.com)
  • In the period leading up to the American Revolutionary War, he became one of the most outspoken of the anti-American members. (revwartalk.com)
  • Many men, both American and British, who would serve in the Revolutionary War found themselves engulfed in the struggle. (battlefields.org)
  • The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. (reenactor.net)
  • The trouble began England taxed her American colonies to help defray of the French and Indian Wars. (wikiquote.org)
  • It's a kind of verbal canopy within which different sections of the American colonies and then states can come together. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • ¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 11 Whether they came as servants, slaves, free farmers, religious refugees, or powerful planters, the men and women of the American colonies created new worlds. (americanyawp.com)
  • The North American mainland originally occupied a small and marginal place in that broad empire, as even the output of its most prosperous colonies paled before the tremendous wealth of Caribbean sugar islands. (americanyawp.com)
  • ¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 The 1660s marked a turning point for black men and women in English colonies like Virginia in North America and Barbados in the West Indies. (americanyawp.com)
  • Paine stated that when the colonies finally succeed in obtaining their freedom from Britain, America would benefit from trade with other countries. (ipl.org)
  • He makes points on how if America was not limited in trade by Britain and the colonies had its own legislative branch the economy would be a lot stronger. (ipl.org)
  • In the second paragraph Thomas Paine talks about how in the past if the colonies tried to rebel their military would not have been ready but during the time "Common Sense" was written the American military was ready. (ipl.org)
  • More than two decades before the Revolution broke out, a group of Americans voted on a scheme to unite the colonies. (americanheritage.com)
  • By the 1750s, the population of Britain's colonies in North America was over 1 million. (battlefields.org)
  • No Spanish king ever visited the American colonies. (unblog.fr)
  • When at the end of the 18th century, Spain finally realized the full potential of its American colonies, also in a cultural sense, the famous Bourbon reforms quickly backfired onto the Spanish King. (unblog.fr)
  • When the war was over, the regiment was disbanded in America in 1763. (revwartalk.com)
  • Rolfe recognized that Powhatan is the leader of a massive confederacy of thousands American Indians and thousands of tribes. (ostatic.com)
  • Some historians believe that the ancestors of the tribes making up the Abenaki confederacy first arrived in North America about three thousand years ago. (encyclopedia.com)
  • It was a conflict that pitted two of history's greatest empires, Great Britain and France, against each other for control of the North American continent. (battlefields.org)
  • Since the late 17th century, hostilities between France and Great Britain in North America had been continuous. (battlefields.org)
  • A new and increasingly complex Atlantic World connected the continents of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. (americanyawp.com)
  • On 9 July 1755 amid the wilderness of North America, Britain suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in her history. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • Stuck in the middle were the Native Americans, and many of them, like the Iroquois, were effective in commercially pitting Britain and France against each other all the while remaining a "neutral" nation. (battlefields.org)
  • That did not, however, stop France from working to prevent Britain from expanding its empire in North America. (battlefields.org)
  • The bulk of these items were created during Gage's tenure as military governor of Montréal, commander-in-chief of North America, and governor of Massachusetts. (umich.edu)
  • Elsewhere in the North America: The English led a couple of failed raids in Canada: Sir William Phips (later governor of Massachusetts) led a raid against Quebec and Fitz-John Winthrop (later governor of Connecticut) led a raid against Montreal. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • The regiment was shipped to the Continent and Grant fought with them in the Battle of Fontenoy (1745). (revwartalk.com)
  • The French-Indian War was fought in the forests, open plains, and forts of the North American frontier. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil. (americanheritage.com)
  • The French, Indians and British basically fought over territory, largely to the north and west of New England. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • French fur traders, soldiers and Jesuits along with their Indian allies fought off encroachment by land-hungry English settlers. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • Historians sometimes refer to the French and Indian Wars as part of the first world wars, a remote theater of the wars fought by European empires on the continent and at sea. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • As the garrison prepared to march for Fort Edward a flood of enraged Native Americans swept over the column, unleashing an unstoppable tide of slaughter. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • 2. What does Paine see as the global significance of the American struggle for independence? (ipl.org)
  • The global significance of the American struggle for independence was human rights and freedom. (ipl.org)
  • Throughout the excerpts of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" he makes many compelling points on why America during that time was in the perfect position for independence. (ipl.org)
  • In fact, Gadsden was the first in South Carolina to support American Independence from England. (planetcharleston.com)
  • The French coup d'etat in Spain and deposing of King Fernando VII lead to a power vacuum which caused the Spanish-Amerian 'criollo' -elites who had always been critical of too direct Spanish influence to organize in local governments, ultmately leading to the independence of Latin American countries. (unblog.fr)
  • The following year, they formally declared their independence as a new nation, the United States of America. (reenactor.net)
  • The American Series (139 volumes) consists of Gage's correspondence with military officers and civil authorities in North America, including colonial governors, generals, commanders and subordinate officers, Indian superintendents and deputies, admirals of the British Navy in North America, engineers, army contractors, and various prominent civilians. (umich.edu)
  • And yet the colonial backwaters on the North American mainland, ignored by many imperial officials, were nevertheless deeply tied into these larger Atlantic networks. (americanyawp.com)
  • At the same time, colonial settlements grew and matured, developing into powerful societies capable of warring against Native Americans and subduing internal upheaval. (americanyawp.com)
  • Patterns and systems established during the colonial era would continue to shape American society for centuries. (americanyawp.com)
  • France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. (reenactor.net)
  • Three British sailors killed an Indian child, and a colonial administrator named Edmund Andros raided what is now Castine, Maine. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • JE: People asked me that question over time, because I have focused on what I call the American founding - the last quarter century of the 18th century. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • For those who say, Well, why are you so fascinated with the American founding, the late 18th century? (amrevpodcast.com)
  • Even in the 18th Century, it was widely believed that America, both North and South, did not possess the right qualities in the same way as Europe. (unblog.fr)
  • Thomas Jefferson - "the most expansion-minded president in American history" (writes Gordon S. Wood) - set out a vision of an "Empire of Liberty," later revised as an "Empire for Liberty," and left the presidency believing that "no constitution was ever before as well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government. (fff.org)
  • On this special edition I speak with Joseph Ellis, historian and author of Founding Brothers which won a Pulitzer Prize for history, American Sphinx, which is a biography of Thomas Jefferson and which won the national book award and His Excellency, George Washington, which was a New York Times bestseller. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • Thomas Jefferson had to defend the North American natural world to his European colleagues to show that America was plentiful and possessed the right qualities for life to thrive. (unblog.fr)
  • Results for Subjects: Indians of North America--Arkansas. (umich.edu)
  • Remove constraint Subjects: Indians of North America--Arkansas. (umich.edu)
  • The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet widely forgotten, events in American history. (battlefields.org)
  • Having no wilderness experience, he was ambushed himself by Indians and French on September 14, 1758. (revwartalk.com)
  • A procession through town attracting some two thousand people was followed by a mock funeral for American Liberty. (planetcharleston.com)
  • The French army, supported by North American tribes, was initially more successful than the British Army, who suffered from lack of experience at woodland fighting. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • Many of its four hundred inhabitants had fled, fearful that the royal raiders from Canada would be accompanied by their Indian allies, scalping knives in hand. (historynet.com)
  • In both skirmishes in the forests of the frontier and great battles such as Louisbourg and Quebec, the British proved they had learnt well from their Native American allies. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • The English did have some Indian allies. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • New France Gov. Frontenac performing a tribal dance with Indian allies ca. 1690. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • He move to his capital at St. Augustine, established the Florida-Georgia border, stopped Indian raids with the Treaty of Fort Picolata, and encouraged new settlement in his colony. (revwartalk.com)
  • The first five French and Indian Wars involved expeditions of several hundred men into enemy territory combined with murderous raids and massacres. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • The Maps series (87 maps) includes maps and fort plans created for British military leaders in North America in the years before the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • Old Fort Niagara played a role in the key conflicts on the continent, including the French and Indian War (or Seven Years War), the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • Looking back over two hundred years of the American Presidency, it seems safe to say that no one entered the office with more personal prestige than Washington, and only two Presidents-Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt-faced comparable crises. (americanheritage.com)
  • Rumors began to circulate that he regarded his role as primarily ceremonial and symbolic, that after a mere two years he intended to step down, having launched the American ship of state and contributed his personal prestige as ballast on its maiden voyage. (americanheritage.com)
  • Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six - count 'em, six - French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for over 43 years. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • Second, I'd like to see this analysis revisited in about 20 years when there are more adult Indian champions. (writing.com)
  • As Americans ventured westward to settle the frontier, their inherent superior beliefs, culture and the principles of democracy accompanied them. (123helpme.com)
  • The Kentucky rifle, also known as a long rifle or Pennsylvania rifle, was one of the first commonly used rifles on the American frontier. (grandviewoutdoors.com)
  • westward expansion was a tumultuous period in American History that included periods of conflict with the Native Americans and Hispanics and increased in sectionalism that created the backdrop for the Civil War. (123helpme.com)
  • Encyclopedia of American history: Expansion and reform, 1813-1855, 4, Retrieved August 14, 2008, from Facts on File: American History Online database. (123helpme.com)
  • Retrieved August 14, 2008, from Facts on File: American History Online database. (123helpme.com)
  • Encyclopedia of American history: Expansion and reform, 1813-1855, 4. (123helpme.com)
  • And so, without knowing that I was doing, I was writing the history of the American founding backwards. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • It's the big bang in the history of the American political universe. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • Edgar Legare Pennington, "The Reverend Francis Le Jau's Work Among Indians and Negro Slaves," Journal of Southern History , 1, no. 4 (November 1935): 442-458. (americanyawp.com)
  • Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was a historian and professor who wrote on military history, presidential history, and American expansion and foreign policy. (americanheritage.com)
  • These warships manqu would supposedly defend American ports and rivers against enemy attack. (historynet.com)
  • Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication - Louisbourg had to be taken. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • English traders encouraged wars with Indians in order to purchase and enslave captives, and planters justified the use of an enslaved workforce by claiming white servants were "good for nothing at all. (americanyawp.com)
  • Hannah Duston , captured with her infant daughter in a raid, retaliated by killing and scalping 10 of her Indian captives - one man, two women and six children. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • General Braddock's army, a mixture of British regulars and American militia, was shattered, losing over 900 men from a force of 1,300. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • Gallant exploits against long odds helped the American militia capture the famous French citadel. (americanheritage.com)
  • Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • Old Fort Niagara housed soldiers throughout the American Civil War, World War I, and Word War II. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • The French and Indian War is unique, because the fighting began in North America and spread to the rest of the world. (battlefields.org)
  • John Rutledge addressed both houses of the legislature, saying, "The eyes of Europe, nay of the whole world, are on America… the eyes of every other Colony are on this… a Colony, whose reputation for generosity and magnanimity is universally acknowledged. (planetcharleston.com)
  • After the British garrison of Fort William Henry in the colony of New York surrendered to the besieging army of the French commander Marquis de Montcalm in August 1757, it appeared that this particular episode of the French and Indian War was over. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • In a letter to Benjamin Franklin in September of 1768, Peter Timothy wrote, "I do not suppose there is a Colony on the Continent in so flourishing and promising a situation as South Carolina at present. (planetcharleston.com)
  • The Portuguese only turned Brazil into a thriving colony when competition with the Ottoman Empire and other forces in the Indian Ocean turned out to be too strong to truly expand. (unblog.fr)
  • Indeed, in the eyes of the Founders, the American Revolution was largely a war between a mature empire and a nascent one. (fff.org)
  • Native Americans saw fledgling settlements grow into unstoppable beachheads of vast new populations that increasingly monopolized resources and remade the land into something else entirely. (americanyawp.com)
  • By the time they were teenagers, these young men were crack shots whom the family depended upon to hunt game for food and to repel Indian attacks. (grandviewoutdoors.com)
  • Many - but assuredly not all - Americans of the time would have cheerily agreed. (fff.org)
  • And in fact, if you want to be historically correct, nobody calls it the American Revolution during the time it's going on. (amrevpodcast.com)
  • The Civil War and the Great Depression, though now distant in time, remain more recent and raw in our collective memory than the American founding, so we find it easier to appreciate the achievements of Lincoln and Roosevelt. (americanheritage.com)
  • In the end, the French and Indians lost, but they put up a good fight for a long, long time. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • westward expansion created periods of conflict with native americans and other nations. (123helpme.com)
  • Analyzes how the westward expansion affected the economy and social structures of the northern and southern regions of america. (123helpme.com)
  • Analyzes the impact of western expansion on domestic policy, including the dealing with the native americans. (123helpme.com)
  • Continued success in campaigns against the Spanish, Indians, and bands of pirates had given the town a strengthened sense of confidence. (planetcharleston.com)
  • The Warrants series (40 boxes) is made up of financial documents authorizing payment for the British military forces in North America. (umich.edu)
  • The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them. (reenactor.net)
  • Many countries in Europe wanted to get a piece of America for themselves. (ipl.org)
  • Analyzes how regional differences escalated to a level where neither the north nor the south could settle on common understanding, leading to civil war. (123helpme.com)
  • He advanced in rank during cruises to the Mediterranean, where he took part in the spasmodic wars with the piratical Barbary states that eventually forced the Muslim dynasties along the North African seaboard to stop preying on American merchantmen. (historynet.com)
  • The Indian Wars were among the first steps in empire building. (fff.org)
  • Less famously, the Aztec gold treasures that were robbed from Tenochtitlan, were quickly melted into coins in order to finance Charles' manifold wars on the old continent. (unblog.fr)
  • Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that a British monarch can not govern without Parliament's consent, although this concept was established only with the Glorious Revolution later in the century. (reenactor.net)
  • The Candlemas Massacre took place in the first of the French and Indian wars, King William's War. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • Each of the French and Indian wars has multiple names, which makes them even more confusing. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage . (americanheritage.com)
  • What was it that both sides wanted to obtain during the French and Indian War? (battlefields.org)
  • Finally, in the sixth French and Indian War, both sides got serious and committed significant resources to the war effort. (newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
  • By 1757, Grant was a major of the 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders), fighting in the French and Indian War. (revwartalk.com)
  • France exerted the most influence on a cultural level from the philosophy of Auguste Comte to Napoleon III-styled cities all over Latin American major cities, which influences dwarf even the short yet significant French attempt at monarchism in Mexico. (unblog.fr)
  • 1600s, French finds there's not a Northwest Passage, but a massive amount of land and the fur trade happening in the North. (ostatic.com)
  • Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America: Volume 1, 1441-1700 (New York: Octagon Books, 1969), 403. (americanyawp.com)
  • The government which Canada and Australia now enjoy was absolutely denied to America through stubborn and false ideas of the autocratic powers guiding the hand of King George the Third. (wikiquote.org)
  • Nation of nations: A concise narrative of the American republic (3rd ed. (123helpme.com)
  • Washington's achievement must be recovered before it can be appreciated, which means that we must recognize that there was no such thing as a viable American nation when he took office as President, that the opening words of the Constitution ("We the people of the United States") expressed a fervent but fragile hope rather than a social reality. (americanheritage.com)
  • The whole general idea of political rights created a well-known status that was unique to America alone. (ipl.org)
  • As Jefferson indicated, this vision was more than continental, because South America was never regarded as permanently off limits. (fff.org)
  • The American rebels could rely on men who had grown up using firearms as part and parcel of their daily lives. (grandviewoutdoors.com)
  • My French Indian War (FIW) book library for wargaming consists of the following titles this is not an exhaustive library is just some of my favourites on the subject. (10mm-wargaming.co.uk)
  • A miracle happens, a typhoon from North Sea comes and sinks the Spanish navy to the ocean floor. (ostatic.com)
  • The Spanish-American War, 1898, may come to mind, but I'm thinking further back than that. (fff.org)
  • If a contest had been staged to offer a prize for the most frustrated man in North America in the summer of 1813, United States Navy Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry would have won it hands down. (historynet.com)
  • By the summer of 1775, he was returned to active service, and Colonel Grant was ordered to America. (revwartalk.com)
  • George Washington spoke of the "rising American empire" and described himself as living in an "infant empire. (fff.org)