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The galleon was powered entirely by wind, using sails carried on three or four masts, with a lateen sail continuing to be used on the last (usually third and fourth) masts. They were used in both military and trade applications, most famously in the Spanish treasure fleet, and the Manila galleons. While carracks played the leading role in early ...
Map showing the grants provided for in the Charter of 1606. The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement which could be used as a base to export commodities to Great Britain and create a buffer preventing total Spanish control of the North ...
The Virginia Association was a series of non-importation agreements adopted by Virginians in 1769 as a way of speeding economic recovery and opposing the Townshend Acts. Initiated by George Washington , drafted by George Mason , and passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1769, the Virginia Association was a way for Virginians to stand ...
One key example cited is the First Opium War where British officials framed the war in terms of national security and honor, while the author reveals the true motive: financial gain through an immoral drug trade. The author criticizes America's similar misuse of national honor when the U.S. government refused international treaties aimed at ...
The British brought the war back to coastal Virginia in May 1779 when Admiral George Collier landed troops at Hampton Roads and used Portsmouth (after destroying the naval yard) as a base of attack. This was known as the Chesapeake raid. The move was part of an attempted blockade of trade with the West Indies.
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
[1] [2] The passport article was a letter from Thomas Smith of Virginia to George Clymer, Samuel Osgood, and James Madison regarding the nautical trade between tobacco colonies. The Act of Congress states safe passage for the Commonwealth of Virginia traders capitulants seeking to transport tobacco from Yorktown, Virginia to New York .
William Claiborne (also spelled "Clayborne", b. c. 1600 – d. c. 1677) [1] was an English surveyor and early settler in the colonies/provinces of Virginia and Maryland and around the Chesapeake Bay.