To keep the balance of trade favorable to the mother-country, the British had established laws with its colonies that
The course and outcome of the 1777 campaign were largely determined by the experience and ambition of one man: Lieutenant General John
Military Establishment at St. John, Quebec. By John Benson Lossing. On June 27, 1775, the newly formed Continental Congress authorized General
Once offering the height of luxury on Lake Champlain, this grand hotel was located on Bluff Point, now the site of Clinton Community College. The
Philip Skene was a career soldier, enlisting in the British Army in 1739. He saw significant action in Europe and then in North America during the
A panic is the state of the economy that is a result of numerous simultaneous bank runs. A bank run happens when patrons begin withdrawing their
Prior to 1856, there was no easy way to control the carbon level in iron so as to manufacture steel efficiently and cheaply. Yet beginning in the
The USS Monitor was an iron-hulled steamship—the first ironclad warship commissioned by the Union Navy. The need for iron plating on ships only arose
There are basically two types of mining. Most mining in this area was underground. However, the open pit that became known as the #21 Mine in