Later, this statue was melted and re-purposed as musket balls for the American army during the Revolutionary War ... Independence. For comparison, the youngest signer of the document, a South ...

That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th ... to be a piece of the True Cross), were all taken south. His aim was nothing less than the destruction ...

In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment of King George for promoting slavery in the New World. The other delegates eventually removed ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence ... the war came at the end of 1777, in Saratoga, New York, where 7,000 British troops surrendered to General Horatio Gates. America's ...

The South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust has released the first volume of the Francis Marion Papers which it ...

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and on to independence, Nujoma has died aged 95. He died on Saturday after ...

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There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence ... as militia officers during the war. Nine of the signers of the Declaration died before the American Revolution ended in 1783.

He led his country to independence from apartheid ... countries who had come during World War II. Nujoma later moved to Windhoek, where he worked for the South African Railways and attended ...

That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th ... to be a piece of the True Cross), were all taken south. His aim was nothing less than the destruction ...

The unexpected death of Alexander III left Scotland in crisis and led to the Wars of Independence. Margaret, Maid of Norway Margaret, Maid of Norway, became Queen of Scotland when she was only ...