The Thirty Year's War had left ... the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants typically worked four to seven years in exchange for passage, room ...

In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven ...

It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their ...

In the mid-eighteenth century, France controlled the largest part of the North American continent ... Europe's most monumental confrontation, the Seven Years' War (1756-63).