Minutemen is the name given to members of the Thirteen Colonies militia who swore to be ready for battle within two minutes. This term has since been used to refer to other United States military units, referring to the success and patriotism of the original minutemen. Today it is mainly used to de
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, born December 31, 1738 in London (Grosvenor Square) and died October 5, 1805 in Gauspur near Ghazipur in northern India1 was a British general known as commander of British troops during the siege of Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. Subsequ
American unity progressed in 1777:a flag was adopted in June . The coordination of military efforts against Britain and the supply of the Continental Army drove the Americans to unite. Borrowing and debt repayment also required increased federal centralization:the War of Independence brought the for
After the victory at Long Island (August 1776), British troops under Richard Howe occupied New York City in September. American troops, commanded by George Washington, were forced to retreat to New Jersey. Despite the successes of Trenton (December 26, 1776) and Princeton (January 3, 1777), Philadel
On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published a pamphlet entitled Common Sense which was a major success and in which he criticized the monarchy. Thomas Paine called for America to separate from Britain and proposed a Republican Constitution. In a letter published by the Pennsylvania Packet on April 2
It is often said that the war of independence with the English begins April 19, 1775 at the Siege of Boston (Battles of Lexington and Concord), but the first event causing popular reaction to the English invasion began on September 1, 1774 in an event dubbed Powder Alarm incorporating this war for t
The years 1763-1774 saw the rise of colonial opposition to British claims, marked by a series of laws of a fiscal nature, quickly repealed by the central power. American resistance to Londons mercantilism and fiscal policy sometimes degenerated into episodic, yet unthreatening, riots and revolts. Co
British imperialism After the Seven Years War, British authorities began to reflect on the British Empire at its height. Between 1770 and 1782, the Tories in power dreamed of strengthening colonial domination and reinforcing centralization. Proponents of protectionism, they sought to strictly enfor
The Thirteen British (originally English) colonies were formed between the beginning from the 17th century and the first third of the 18th century, over several hundred kilometers along the Atlantic coast (see map). Their geography, their population, their economy and their institutions were then ma
The American Revolution is a period of political changes after 1763 in the thirteen British colonies of North America that gave rise to the American War of Independence against Great Britain (1775-1783). Founding episode of the American nation and the birth of the United States, the revolution manif
The word pirate comes from the Greek word πειρατης which in turn comes from the verb πειραω meaning to strive, to try, to try ones luck in adventure. A pirate is a person who practices piracy. Piracy is the practice, as old as shipping, of attacking a boat with the aim of stealing its cargo, and so
Piet Hein, or Heyn (November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629), Dutch naval officer, privateer, and hero of Dutch folklore. Hein was born in Delfshaven (today a district of Rotterdam). Son of a captain, he became a sailor during his adolescence. Around the age of 20, he was captured by the Spaniards and se
Olivier Levasseur known as La Buse (or La Bouche) was born around 1680 in Calais, he was an authentic pirate who scoured the Indian Ocean. He was hanged high and short on July 7, 1730 at 5:00 p.m. in Saint-Paul, on Bourbon Island (today Reunion Island) for his crimes of piracy. Legend has it that w
LAFFITE, Jean. Possibly born in 1780 in Bayonne like his older brother and partner, Pierre (1776? - 1841?), Jean Lafitte (1774 - 1858) was a pirate scouring the Gulf of Mexico at the beginning of the 19th century. He created his own Kingdom of Barataria in the swamps and bayous near New Orleans aft
Turtle Island Country Haiti Location Caribbean Sea Area 190 km²Coasts 80 kmHighest point -459 m PopulationDensity 30,000 inhab. 2004 160 inhab./km² Turtle Island (in Spanish Tortuga) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, 37 km long by 7 km wide, located northwest of the current Republic of Haiti.
Flibustier comes from the Dutch vrijbuiters (literally “free booty maker”), which gave rise to the French flibustier and the English freebooter. This word designates the pirates raging in the Caribbean Sea at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. Pirate crews were democ
Economic and political context Piracy in the Caribbean Seas is a consequence of the game of the great nations. The Caribbean was at the center of the triangular trade in the 16th century. The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divides the New World between the Spaniards and the Portuguese along a North-
Born in 1680 - Died, hanged on March 29, 1721 in Port royal. Violent and sulphurous character, drinking companion of Edward teaches the famous black beard. He raged as a pirate captain around New Providence (Bahamas) between 1716 and 1719 where he accumulated an impressive list of catches. In 1718
Blackbeard Blackbeard (circa 1680 – November 22, 1718), also known as the name of Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Tash or Tach and Edward Drummond (supposedly his real name and that given to him by Daniel Defoe) was an English pirate who reigned by terror in the Caribbean from 1716 to 1718. Blackbear
Anne Bonny (1697?-1720?) was a pirate from an Irish family. She sailed with Calico Jack Rackham. Everything that is known about Anne Bonny comes from legends and rare official documents. You should know that most of the information we have today about the greatest pirates comes from various publica
Focusing more specifically on the arrival of the Vikings in Ireland and its relations with the local Gaelic peoples also seem of little importance if we compare them with its great adventures in Iceland and the North Atlantic, in England and the West, and of course in the East, at the hands of the V
June 20, 1761 (Obenheim) - November 24, 1813 (Kusel, Saarland) Walther, Frédéric Henri, count Son of a pastor, enlisted in the Bercheny hussars in 1781, Walther was lieutenant then captain in 1792, wounded at Neerwinden (March 18, 1793), then passed from the Armée du Nord to those of the Alps a
The Persian Wars pitted the Greeks against the Persians for fifty-nine years in the second half of the 5th century BC. for the control of the so-called Asiatic Greece, the western part of the Anatolian peninsula (Ionia, Eólida and Dórida) and its islands, all of it of Hellenic culture. The Persian E
Che Guevara was born in Argentina, trained as a doctor and is known for being a revolutionary who actively participated in the Cuban Revolution, which defeated the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He also participated in revolutionary outbreaks in Congo and Bolivia, but was not successful