English Canada is a term referring to one of the following:English-speaking Canadians, as opposed to French-speaking Canadians. It is employed when comparing English- and French-language literature, m ...
During the American Revolution, a significant proportion of the population of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, East Florida, West Florida, and other colonies r ...
The British spent about ?80 million and ended with a national debt of ?250 million, which it easily financed at about ?9.5 million a year in interest. The French spent 1.3 billion livres (about ?5 ...
Historians continue to debate whether the odds for American victory were long or short. John E. Ferling says the odds were so long that the American victory was "Almost A Miracle." On the other hand, ...
West of the Appalachian Mountains and along the border with Quebec, the American Revolutionary War was an "Indian War". Most Native Americans supported the British. Like the Iroquois Confederacy, trib ...
Outbreak of the War 1775–76MassachusettsMain article: Boston campaignIn February 1775 Parliament declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion. Lieutenant General Thomas Gage, the British Nort ...
Nobody was punished for the "Boston Tea Party" and in 1774 Parliament ordered Boston harbor closed until the destroyed tea was paid for. It then passed the Massachusetts Government Act to punish the r ...
The struggle for Mexican independence dates back to the decades after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when Martín Cortés (son of Hernán Cortés and La Malinche) led a revolt against the S ...
Further information: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War, Naval operations in the American Revolutionary WarWith the British in control of most northern coastal cities and Patriot force ...
During the 17th and early 18th centuries, the British colonies in America had been largely left to their own devices by the crown, which was preoccupied with civil war and other issues. The colonies w ...
Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a "Second Industrial Revolution", beginning around 1850, although a method for mas ...
The rapid industrialisation of the English economy cost many craft workers their jobs. The movement started first with lace and hosiery workers near Nottingham and spread to other areas of the textile ...
Another major industry of the later Industrial Revolution was gas lighting. Though others made a similar innovation elsewhere, the large-scale introduction of this was the work of William Murdoch, an ...
The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is closely linked to a small number of innovations, beginning in the second half of the 18th century. By the 1830s the following gains had been made in im ...
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation, the U ...
