It’s true that the Portuguese benefited from competition but it was not competition in trade that gave the Portuguese an edge in the fifteenth-century Indian Ocean trade, it was the European ...

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On April 21, 1775, Virginia’s last royal governor, John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, ordered Royal Marines to remove 15 barrels of gunpowder stores from the public magazine in Williamsburg and ...

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