At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, the Continental Congress would not legally adopt flags with "stars, white in a blue field" for another year. The flag that it used at the time, contemporaneously known as "the Continental Colors", has historically been referred to as the first national flag of the United States.. The Continental Navy raised the Colors as the …

The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada.. The original settlement was made in …

Il 1776 (MDCCLXXVI in numeri romani) è un anno bisestile del XVIII secolo. 1776 negli altri calendari Calendario gregoriano: 1776 Ab Urbe condita: 2529 (MMDXXIX) Calendario armeno: 1224 — 1225 Calendario bengalese: 1182 — 1183 Calendario berbero: 2726 Calendario bizantino: 7284 — 7285 Calendario buddhista:

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hessian forces (German auxiliaries in the service of the British) in Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26.. Planned in partial secrecy, …

The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.It convened on May 10, 1775, with representatives from 12 of the colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shortly after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, succeeding the First Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia …

Born 20 September 1758Cormier, Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, Saint-Domingue Died: 17 October 1806 (aged 48) Pont Larnage (now Pont Rouge), near Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Burial: 17 October 1806 by Dédée Bazile: Spouse: Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité

Natalia Alexeievna, Tsarevna of Russia (25 June 1755 – 26 April 1776) was the first wife of Paul Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (future Emperor Paul I), son of the Empress Catherine II.She was born as Princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt as the fifth child of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and his spouse Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken

Geschiedenis. De graven van Limburg Stirum stammen af van de eerst bewezen voorvader graaf Adolf I van Berg.Diederik I graaf van Isenberg-Limburg, zoon van Frederik van Altena-Isenberg en Sophia van Limburg (dochter van hertog Walram III van Limburg), ontving in 1243 een deel van zijn vaders territorium en noemde zich vanaf 1246/1247 Graaf van Limburg.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann [a] [ɛ ʁ n s t ˈ t e ː o d o ː ɐ̯ a m a ˈ d e ː ʊ s ˈ h ɔ f ˌ m a n] [b], né Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann [c] le 24 janvier 1776 à Königsberg, en province de Prusse-Orientale, et mort le 25 juin 1822 à Berlin (à l'âge de 46 ans), est un écrivain romantique et un compositeur, également dessinateur et juriste prussien.. Juriste de formation ...