Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

Readers agree with Martin Kettle that Britain needs realism, not an outdated notion of its own superiority Martin Kettle is right to highlight the need for “great” Britain to establish a more ...

"The origins of the Quincy family lie in Cuincy in northwestern Normandy, France, where a knight named ‘de Cuincy’ joined the 1066 invasion of Britain ... the war in 1788 and planted at ...

The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent ... George's hair confirmed the centuries-late diagnosis.) After 1788 the attacks began to escalate in frequency and ...

It was published in Bristol the following year and would be redrawn and republished many times in Britain and America in the years that followed. It came to epitomize the cruelties of the trade in ...

In 614, Persians seized Jerusalem and captured the True Holy Cross that St. Helena had placed there after finding it. It would be years before the Christians would recapture it. In 1045, Pope Gregory ...

Kissinger 2000-2005 Former United States Secretary of State Margaret, The Lady Thatcher 1993-2000 Former Prime Minister of Great Britain Warren E ... President of the United States George Washington ...

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday it would proscribe the Terrorgram collective, an extreme right-wing online network, as a terrorist organisation, meaning it would become a ...

Hale, Matthew Raymond, Graham and Wright, Catherine 2018. List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2017. The Economic History Review, Vol. 71, ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. About less than 1.3% of the ... land to the United States and then moved west. In foreign affairs, Britain refused ...

The most interesting facts about Brunei, from the world’s biggest palace to the monument built for the billionth barrel of ...

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members began a trip from Peru to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa logs.