With trade tariffs with England now abolished, trade blossomed, especially with Colonial America. The clippers belonging to the Glasgow Tobacco Lords were the fastest ships on the route to Virginia. U ...
Main article: Etymology of Scotland"Scotland" comes from Scoti, the Latin name for the Gaels. The Late Latin word Scotia ("land of the Gaels") was initially used to refer to Ireland. By the 11th centu ...
The Scottish Reform Act 1832 increased the number of Scottish MPs and widened the franchise to include more of the middle classes. From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Sc ...
The Johnston family has been involved in the printing business since 1767. The brothers William and Arthur Keith Johnston founded W. A. K. Johnston Limited in 1826. It bought control of its first new ...
He was born in Peebles and moved to Edinburgh in 1814 to work in the bookselling trade and soon branched out into printing. He opened his own bookshop in 1819 and founded the publishing firm of W. R. ...
British Fresh Water Fishes (1879) Rev. W. Houghton (author), Alexander Francis Lydon (1836–1917) (artist), Benjamin Fawcett (1808–1893) (printer): Colour plates of British fresh water fish in two vo ...
Archibald Fullarton and Co. was a prominent publisher in Glasgow in the 1800s, and maintained a prodigious output of books, atlases and maps. The company produced the last maps to boast decorative vig ...
Union of Great Britain and Ireland The Kingdom of Ireland was a settler state; the monarch was the incumbent monarch of England and later of Great Britain. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland headed the go ...
Born to a New England family in Woodstock, Connecticut, Morse did his undergraduate work and earned a divinity degree at Yale University (M.A. 1786). While pursuing his theological studies under Jonat ...
Ebenezer Hazard (1744–1817) was an American businessman and politician, appointed as deputy Postmaster of New York City; in 1782 he became US Postmaster General, serving from 1782 to 1789.Biography H ...
Postmasters General under the Continental Congress Name Date appointedBenjamin Franklin July 26, 1775Richard Bache November 7, 1776Ebenezer Hazard January 28, 1782Samuel Osgood (1747-1813)Postmasters ...
Belknap was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a tanner. His uncle was Mather Byles, one of New England's intellectual leaders. Belknap was baptized by the historian Thomas Prince, another lead ...
When the war began, the 13 colonies lacked a professional army or navy. Each colony sponsored local militia. Militiamen were lightly armed, had little training, and usually did not have uniforms. Thei ...
French entry into the war had changed British strategy, and Clinton abandoned Philadelphia to reinforce New York City, now vulnerable to French naval power. Washington shadowed Clinton on his withdraw ...
The close of the Seven Years' War in 1763 (the French and Indian War in North America) saw Britain triumphant in driving the French from North America, but also heavily in debt. Taxes in Britain were ...
