Born: 29 September 1758 Birthplace: Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England Died: 21 October 1805 (killed in battle) Best Known As: The hero of the Battle of Trafalgar Lord Nelson's full title, at the time of his death, was Vice Admiral of the White The Right Honourable Horatio, Viscount Nelson, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Horatio Nelson HMS Victory is a 100 gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in the 1760s and currently a museum in dry dock in Portsmouth. She is the oldest ship still in commission. Nelsons most famous ship, his flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. The Victory Nelsons Flagship The two people he hold most dear in the world his beloved Emma and their daughter Horatia. Horatia was born on 29 January 1801. A finer child was never produced by any two persons. She was in truth a love-begotten child.
- Scandinavians - 10th century, first by accident, then Leif Eriksson sighted the land. They attempted to colonize it but were driven out by the locals. - John Cabot Italian; wanted to reach China; sighted land in 1497; the exact place is not known; received sponsorship from King Henry VII - Jacques Cartier French; did altogether three expeditions; visited present-day Quebec City and Montreal 6. Immigrants: - From 1760s mostly from France (it was a French colony) - 1760s to the end of the 19th century mostly from the UK (either directly or US Loyalists) - The early 20th century from Continental Europe (Scandinavians, Italians, Ukrainians) - At present visible minorities (coloured people) from developing world. 7. British Columbia has the highest percentage of population of British origin. Quebec
reached the Pacific Ocean. As it grew, it became the greatest industrial power in the world. It wanted to stay out of European problems, but in the two World Wars, it decided that it could not afford to let Germany win. In the 1940s it became the leader of the West and organized an alliance of the democracies. Today it is the only superpower left in the world. Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s led to the American Revolutionary War. On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, established a Continental Army under the command of George Washington. Proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and endowed with "certain unalienable Rights," the Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson, on July 4, 1776. This meant war. Britain lost the war and lost America. It recognized the United
Cartier). St Brendan the Navigator (C6) was an Irish monk. Tradition holds that he reached North America on one of his voyages. Leif Eriksson (C11) was a Norseman who likely landed in North America around 1000 AD. John Cabot was an Italian explorer who reached North America in 1497. Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who landed in modern-day Newfoundland on 10 May 1534 6. From which countries did most immigrants arrive in Canada in the following periods: before the 1760s - The French founded New France and Québec City in 1608. 1760s to the end of the 19th century The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The British colonies in America defeated New France, forcing France to cede almost all of its territory to Britain and Spain.Subsequently, most immigrants arrived from Britain, either directly or via US Chinese immigration to British Columbia was extensive in the latter half of C19.
acted presumingly. I think that European settlers shouldn't have done that because they went to foreign country where people were living and it was definitely not nice to act so. Most of the countries of Europe wanted to get land in America so they all made colonys there and started to bring there African slaves. Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s led to the American Revolutionary War. In 1775, the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, established a Continental Army under the command of George Washington. Proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and endowed with "certain unalienable Rights," the Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson, on July 4, 1776. That date is now celebrated annually as America's Independence Day. After the American forces had
These two provisions meant that Canada would have parliamentary and cabinet government. The legislature was to consist of a Senate and a House of Commons. The act also authorized establishment of a Supreme Court of Canada. 14. From which countries did most immigrants arrive in Canada in the following periods: (1) before 1760; (2) 1760 to the end of the 19 th century; (3) in the early 20 th century; (4) after World War II; (5) from the 1960s to the present? Before the 1760s mostly from France; 1760s to the end of the 19th century from Britain, either directly or by way of the US (Loyalists); the early 20th century, from continental Europe (Germany, Ukraine, Scandiavia, Italy); after WWII war refugees from many European countries, including Estonia; since the 1960-70s most immigrants from Asia and other Third World countries. 15. Canadian policy of multiculturalism. Who was the Prime Minister when the Canadian government
form the most valuable part of the collection. Among them are the works of art by Pieter Breughel the Younger, Frans Pourbus the Younger, the workshop of Marten de Vos, Adriaen van Ostade, Jacob Gerritz. Cuyp, Jan van Kessel, Hans van Essen and others. There are some examples of German panel painting from the 16th-18th centuries, represented by the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Benjamin Block, Franz Werner von Tamm, Anton Graff and others. Angelica Kauffmann who in 1760s-1770s worked in London, is the representative of German late Rococo. Italian art is illustrated mostly by 17th-century masters like Bernardo Strozzi and Francesco Trevisani. An important part of the collection belongs to the Russian portrait painting from the 18th-19th centuries, represented by such masters like Dmitri Levitsky, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Vasily Tropinin, and Giovanni Battista Lampi who worked in Russia in the 18th century. The
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