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What were the conditions that Peter Stuyvesant found when he arrived in America?
I have been studying Peter Stuyvesant recently, and would like to know two things about him and New Amsterdam:
What were the conditions that he found when he arrived in New Amsterdam? By this I mean ...
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Sources for letters written during the Boer Wars
For a project at my school i need to make a 'letter home' of a canadian soldier that participated in the second boer war. I need to draw from primary sources and im not having luck finding any. so ...
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Why did the Dutch, French & British acquire minor colonies in South America?
We know that South America was partitioned between Spain and Portugal in the early days of empire when Spain and Portugal were the major powers. Later, in the 19th century, when Spain and Portugal ...
