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Bom, M. Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades (Springer, 2012). Caspi-Reisfeld, Keren. "Women Warriors during the Crusades." in Gendering the Crusades (2002): 94+. Clare, Israel Smith, and Tyler, Moses V., (1898). The Library of Universal History, Volume V: The Later Middle Ages, Union Book Company, New York, 1898, pp. 1568–1586
She is also the author of "Sentiments of an American Woman," an essay that intended to rouse colonial women to join the fight against the British. She was able to use her marriage to Joseph Reed to help her gain more influence and resources. [9] Deborah Sampson later emerged as a symbol for female involvement in the Revolutionary War. Rather ...
The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of New York and the state of New Jersey, fought between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington.
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization comprising women who descend from one or more ancestors who lived in British North America between 1607 and 1775, and who aided the colonies in public office, in military service, or in another acceptable capacity.
The English had renamed the colony the Province of New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the Mayors of New York. The city grew northward and remained the largest and most important city in the Province of New York, becoming the third largest in the British Empire after ...
The experience of women in early New England differed greatly and depended on one's social group acquired at birth. Puritans , Native Americans , and people coming from the Caribbean and across the Atlantic were the three largest groups in the region, the latter of these being smaller in proportion to the first two.
Print advertising the riches of New Amsterdam, c. 1642 Dorothy Creole was one of the first African women to arrive in New York. She arrived in 1627. [1] That year, three enslaved African women set foot on the southern shore of Manhattan, arriving in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam). [2]