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The conflict did not finally resolve itself until 1661 with the coronation of Charles II, an act known as the English Restoration. [ 9 ] In April 1643, aware of the problems besetting the home-country, Leonard Calvert departed Maryland to consult with his brother Cecil Calvert, leaving Giles Brent as acting governor in his absence.
The fleet arrived in Barbados at the end of January 1655, and after two months of refitting, sailed for Hispaniola; on 13 April, Penn landed 4,000 men under Venables near Santo Domingo. [3] Suffering from dysentery, and harassed by black and mixed-race Spaniards on the march, [ 5 ] the expedition failed with the loss of 1,000 men. [ 3 ]
The Federal Take Pride in America programs were defunded in the early 1990s, but the Take Pride in America Act (Title XI of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, Public Law 101-628, November 28, 1990), 16 U.S.C. § 4601, remained unrepealed. [9]
The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire.Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866.
After Mottram died in 1655, the overseers of his estate classified Elizabeth Key and her infant son, John, as Negroes (and essentially enslaved and part of the property assets of the estate). With William Grinstead acting as her attorney, Key sued the estate over her status, saying she was an indentured servant who had served past her term and ...
Rep. Kevin West, whose bill would ban state agencies from flying Pride flags, also penned controversial HB 1775, the so-called critical race theory ban.
Nenner records that there is no agreed definition of who is included in the list of regicides. The Indemnity and Oblivion Act did not use the term either as a definition of the act, or as a label for those involved, [d] and historians have identified different groups of people as being appropriate for the name. [2]
A bill introduced in the Oklahoma Legislature on Monday would bar state agencies from celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month or displaying rainbow Pride flags on state property at anytime of year.