the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775, provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop-of-war Providence, in what became the U.S. Navy?
the colonial ghost town of Brunswick, North Carolina was named after Braunschweig, Germany, the birthplace of Great Britain's King George I?
the first person in Britain to suggest studying modern history was eighteenth-century clergyman Joseph Priestley?
the Invasion of Minorca, 1781, by Spanish and French forces succeeded, after more than five months, because the British defenders had no fresh vegetables?
the British ship of the line HMS Colchester, launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
in the 1779 raid led by General William Tryon, British troops destroyed 83 houses, two churches, and a jail in Fairfield, Connecticut?
in the 1783 Peace of Paris, the Dutch Republic granted to Great Britain unobstructed navigation rights in the eastern seas?
the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart?
in 1704 Simón Susarte, a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd, revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, so they could surprise the Anglo-Dutch troops based there?