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Oct 22, 2024 · Lancel, a Parisian leather goods company, founded in 1876, stood the test of time by using the supplest leathers to make luxury products like handbags, briefcases, and accessories. A longtime, family-run business through generations, Lancel opened over 80 boutiques worldwide.
Jul 19, 2019 · This is a 13 Colonies list that details when the colony was founded and some of the famous people involved with the colony. Plymouth Colony was de-established and eventually merged with the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Date FoundedNameFamous People1607John SmithJohn Rolfe Pocahontas1620Plymouth Colony(de-established)John CarverWilliam Bradford Myles ...1626Peter StuyvesantPeter Minuit1630- English Colonial Expansion
- The Tobacco Colonies
- The New England Colonies
- The Middle Colonies
- The Southern Colonies
- The Revolutionary War and The Treaty of Paris
- 13 Colonies Flag
Sixteenth-century England was a tumultuous place. Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food, many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep. This led to a food shortage; at the same time, many agricultural workers lost their jobs. The 16th century was also the age of mercant...
In 1606, King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard in two, giving the southern half to the London Company (later the VirginiaCompany) and the northern half to the Plymouth Company. The first English settlement in North America had actually been established some 20 years before, in 1587, when a group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children...
The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 to found Plymouth Colony. Ten years later, a wealthy syndicate known as the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger (and more liberal) group of Puritans to establish ano...
In 1664, King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York. The English soon absorbed Dutch New Netherland and renamed it New York. Most of the Dutch people (as well as the Belgian Flemings and Walloons, Fren...
By contrast, the Carolina colony, a territory that stretched south from Virginia to Florida and west to the Pacific Ocean, was much less cosmopolitan. In its northern half, hardscrabble farmers eked out a living. In its southern half, planters presided over vast estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and–starting in the 1690s–rice. Thes...
In 1700, there were about 250,000 European settlers and enslaved Africans in North America’s English colonies. By 1775, on the eve of revolution, there were an estimated 2.5 million. The colonists did not have much in common, but they were able to band together and fight for their independence. The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was sparked...
During the Revolutionary War, a flag featuring thirteen alternating red and white stripes and thirteen five-pointed stars arranged in a circle was adopted. This variant is also known as the "Betsy RossFlag," as she was believed to have designed it. The stars and stripes represent the 13 colonies.
Feb 2, 2021 · The New England Colonies were the settlements established by English religious dissenters along the coast of the north-east of North America between 1620-1640 CE. The original colonies were:
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The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
John Smith, who led the Jamestown colony in the early 17th century, was told by Powhatan, a native leader, that he had killed the colonists. Recent research suggests that the massacre carried...
Jul 10, 2022 · Puritanism was a major factor in the creation and the social, religious, and economic life of the New England colonies. Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were founded by those who wished to practice their Calvinist-based Protestantism without persecution by the English Church or Parliament.
