Articles related to "Laurens"

Laurens Dey bargained his way across the Atlantic, got kicked out of New Amsterdam on morals charges and was banished to New Jersey.

During the war Col. John Laurens fought for something almost no one else did, especially aristocratic white slave owners from the south: Freedom and Justice for slaves!

After the bloody gun battle at the railway depot, the two remaining outlaws escape in a wagon. Lodine, Sundblad, and the wounded outlaw die.

Before the Revolutionary War, a self-styled Aristocracy substituted slave labor for "artisan and mechanic" contributions of the middle class in the Northern Colonies.

While the ancient blood feud known as the duel was in decline in Western Europe it was on the rise elsewhere.

The Continental Army was the only integrated Army in the US until 1950. Necessity and a few open-minded people called for minority participation in the Revolutionary War.

Buried in New York after his death, the re-interrment of President James Monroe's remains made national news.

This article tells you why to visit Albi - one of France's most beautiful yet little-known towns with world-class attractions such as the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum

The hometown of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and the Lapérouse Museum makes for a great holiday vacation in Albi, France in Western France.

The most complete biography to date of this forgotten Prussian American Revolution Hero provides new insight about a questionable past and an unquestionable contribution!

Charles Lee is one of the more fascinating, eccentric, and forgotten characters to have taken part in the American Revolutionary War.

The Baron de Bastrop was a tax collector who ran to the United States with a price on his head, changed his name, and helped bring Anglo-Americans to Mexican Texas.

There were fourteen men who some may consider to have been America's first Presidents, even before the time of George Washington and the Constitution.