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Cartouche from Joel Gascoyne's A New Map of the Country of Carolina (1682). Joel Gascoyne (bap. 1650—c. 1704) was an English nautical chartmaker, land cartographer and surveyor who set new standards of accuracy and pioneered large scale county maps.
It stands in the Latin Quarter (Quartier latin), atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by Jacques-Germain Soufflot , at the behest of King Louis XV of France ; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve ...
A tree of liberty topped with a Phrygian cap set up in Mainz in 1793. Such symbols were used by several revolutionary movements of the time. It took place in both the Americas and Europe, including the United States (1775–1783), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1788–1792), France and French-controlled Europe (1789–1814), Haiti (1791–1804), Ireland (1798) and Spanish America (1810 ...
Royall House Slave Quarters entry door John Singleton Copley portrait of Isaac Royall Jr. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Slave quarters. Isaac Royall Jr. with his wife and child at his side, and other relations, by Robert Feke, 1741 [3] The Isaac Royall House and Slave Quarters is a historic house located in Medford, Massachusetts, near Tufts ...
The Revolution resulted from multiple long-term and short-term factors, culminating in a social, economic, financial and political crisis in the late 1780s. [3] [4] [5] Combined with resistance to reform by the ruling elite, and indecisive policy by Louis XVI and his ministers, the result was a crisis the state was unable to manage. [6] [7]
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies in what was then British America. The revolution ultimately culminated in the American Revolutionary War, which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775.
During those three decades, drylands expanded worldwide by 4.3 million sq. km (1.66 million sq. mi.), an area nearly a third larger than the nation of India. And when the UNCCD says dry, they mean ...
A 1777 map depicting Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River. In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the French decided to construct a fort here. Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon. [9]