A Separatist group left England for religious freedom. This group wanted to separate from the Church of England and form their church. They sailed on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620.
The goals of the Pilgrims were:
- To establish their colony so they could worship freely.
- To convert Native Americans to Christianity.
- To establish a successful and prosperous colony that would be a model for other colonies.
MARIGNY (Enguerrand de) (Lyons-la-Forêt, circa 1260 - Paris, 1315.) Advisor to Philippe le Bel. Having come to the Court at a very young age, cultured and intelligent, Enguerrand de Marigny knew how to win the good graces of Philippe IV le Bel.The latters wife, Jeanne de Navarre, from whom he was na
The battleship Yamato was, along with its brother Musashi, the most powerful battleship ever to sail the seas of Earth. In 1945 the strategic situation for Japan was grim. Defeats followed defeats and the Allies advanced. The once mighty Imperial Japanese Navy was a shadow of its former self. The
The clothing of the noblewomen differed considerably from the clothing of the lower social classes, at least from the High Middle Ages. Expansive cuts, opulent fabrics, expensive colors and valuable accessories:the greater the influence, the more magnificent the robe. In our blog post, we look at th
Artillery in that period was in all, except the Austrian, armies the poor relative of the proud weapons of infantry and cavalry. In this were mainly the scions of bourgeois families, leaving the nobles to staff the other arms. Even the inclusion of men in the artillery was problematic, since those w