Showing posts with label Colonial America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colonial America. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

What are the Intolerable Acts?

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“An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in Ameri...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

The War of the Austrian Succession was fought on four different continents

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Note: The “War of the Austrian Succession” included several different conflicts within it. Thus, many of my blog’s mentions of these related...
Monday, September 29, 2025

A review of Ric Burns’ “New York: A Documentary History”

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“Whereupon the Citty and Fort Amsterdam and Province of the New Netherlands were surrendered under His Most Exct. Mat’s. Obedience, made and...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A review of “The Salem Witch Trials” (History Channel)

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“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” – The Hebrew Bible, “The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus,” Chapter 22, Verse 18 (as translated b...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Seven Years’ War was a massive worldwide conflict

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“The free exercise of the roman religion [in Canada] is granted, likewise safe guards to all religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, w...
Monday, March 24, 2025

The English Empire: The predecessor of the British Empire

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“In the reign of king Henry the seventh, his ministers (not to say the king himself) were more industrious in hunting out prosecutions upon ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The British Empire: From the Acts of Union to the Battle of Waterloo

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The eighteenth century was a crucial period for the  British Empire . It saw the birth of the “Kingdom of Great Britain” itself , in the 17...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

The Continental Congresses: The backstory of the United States Congress

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“An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America , towards furth...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

A review of Ric Burns’ “The Pilgrims” (PBS)

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“Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant...
Friday, April 19, 2019

A review of “Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America”

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“... That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

The “Fundamental Orders of Connecticut” may be the world’s first written constitution

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“I pass over the constitutions of Rhode Island and Connecticut , because they were formed prior to the Revolution , and even before the pr...
Monday, December 10, 2018

How did the Massachusetts Body of Liberties influence the Bill of Rights?

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“No man shall be put to death without the testimony of two or three witnesses or that which is equivalent thereunto.” – The Massachuset...
Monday, May 28, 2018

A review of “The War That Made America”

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"Since the English have in their power an officer and two cadets, and, in general all the prisoners whom they took when [they] assas...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

A review of Alistair Cooke's “America: A Personal History of the United States”

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" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Actually, John Locke DID influence the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them wi...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

A review of “Liberty! The American Revolution” and “The Revolution”

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"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the ...
Monday, July 1, 2013

A review of "Canada: A People's History"

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"It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation ...