Tales from our cousins to the West, telling of their independence from Britain, their bloody civil war, their runaway prosperity, and the slender thread by which it hangs.
A crackdown on dissent in England’s established Church drove
a band of Nottinghamshire townspeople to seek new shores.
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The Battle of Flamborough Head
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When captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy surrendered to
American revolutionary John Paul Jones, Jones naturally assumed that meant he had won.
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The Pig-and-Potato War
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In 1859, peaceful co-existence on the Canadian border was severely tested by a marauding pig.
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The Boston Tea Party
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In the time of King George III, Parliament forgot that its job
was not to regulate the people, but to represent them.
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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When Parliament sent the Army against American colonists,
people still calling themselves ‘British’ had to decide very quickly what that meant to them.
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The ‘Jay Treaty’
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The Jay Treaty can be seen as the start of the ‘special relationship’ between
Britain and America.
