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Hace 2 días · The recorded military history of Puerto Rico encompasses the period from the 16th century, when Spanish conquistadores battled native Taínos in the rebellion of 1511, to the present employment of Puerto Ricans in the United States Armed Forces in the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq . Puerto Rico was part of the Spanish Empire for ...
Hace 1 día · The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
Hace 1 día · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
Hace 3 días · 1894–1895. Presidential standard of Jean Casimir-Perier. A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 1:1) with the golden "CP". 1895–1899. Presidential standard of Félix Faure. A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 1:1) with the golden "FF". 1899–1906.
Hace 4 días · Losses: American, some 30 dead, 42 wounded; British and Loyalist, 207 dead, 700 captured. The Battle of Bennington was fought during the American Revolution on August 16, 1777, between American militiamen defending colonial military stores in Bennington, Vermont, and a British raiding party. The Americans won.
Hace 4 días · This crushed opposition by publicly demonstrating even the aristocracy was powerless before Pombal. Further titled "Marquês de Pombal" in 1770, he ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1777. The new ruler, Queen Maria I of Portugal, disliked Pombal because of his excesses, and upon her accession to the throne, withdrew all his political ...
Hace 1 día · Battles of Lexington and Concord. This map depicts significant events around Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 18–19, 1775, at the beginning of the American Revolution. (more) Revolutionary leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams fled Lexington to safety, and Revere was joined by fellow riders William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.
