When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

A picket guard of about 350, mostly Hessians, were attacked by the Americans under Lafayette, and driven back to their camp, some twenty to thirty of them falling before the riflemen's fire.

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

At least 20 other Americans were reported to have been arrested in a mass political roundup.

From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.

Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

hooks points out that these white female reformers were more concerned with white morality than the conditions these morals caused black Americans.

The Soviets were threatened because the Americans might have been able to make a nuclear first strike possible.

The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.

They were simply " Boston ", " Bostonians " or " the Bostons "; or the " Americans " or " Boston Americans " as in " American Leaguers ", Boston being a two-team city.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

The book made many Americans appreciate their country's economic progress and sold over 40, 000 copies, mostly in the U. S.

* 1870 – In Montana, U. S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.

Interracial relations between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans is a complex issue that has been mostly neglected with " few in-depth studies on interracial relationships ".

In the South the Presbyterians were evangelical dissenters, mostly Scots-Irish Americans who expanded into Virginia between 1740 and 1758.

Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke and in 1873 John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans, but substituting a scissor kick for the traditional flutter kick in order to reduce splashing.

Supporters of Nordicism and Germanism consider Nordic people ( Scandinavians, Germans, English, Balts and Dutch ) to be superior, shunning those of Southern and Eastern Europe ( who may have darker features and different cultures ), including mostly Jews, Poles, Celts ( Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Basque ), Gypsies, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, white Latin Americans, Lusophone, white Africans, and Russians, along with anyone whose ethnic heritage is not European.

In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States ( though not to recent immigrants from Europe ; thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, " The enterprising people are mostly strangers ; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called ").

The many ethnic groups such as Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Jews, Italians, and African Americans that began to settle in Chicago in the early 1900s were mostly detached from the political system, due in part to lack of organization which led to underrepresentation in the City Council.

Long before the first incarcerees arrived in March 1942, Manzanar was home to Native Americans, who mostly lived in villages near several creeks in the area.

Palestinians ), other Latin American nations, North Americans ( about tens of thousands claimed Cherokee ancestry from displaced persons from Indian Territory in the USA in the 1880s ) and East Asians ( mostly Chinese and Koreans ) taken place in the Coquimbo region.

Since the 1980s, and much like Manhattan's Little Italy, due to a decrease in immigration from Italy and gentrification, the neighborhood has seen its native Italian American population rapidly shrink, while neighboring Chinatown has been rapidly expanding north into the neighborhood east of Broadway and along Stockton Street causing a major demographic shift to a mix of mostly Chinese and young professional population, although some, albeit very few, Italian Americans remain.

Nearly 3, 500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920.

30 people ( 44 %) of Eagle Village population is Native Americans, mostly Han, but also some Gwich ' in.

Due to the presence of the Camp Pendleton U. S. Marine Corps Base in the neighboring city of Oceanside, Vista has one of the largest mainland U. S. communities of Pacific Islanders primarily Micronesian peoples ( i. e. Guam and Northern Mariana Islands ) and Samoan Americans ; and even 2. 5 percent of Vista's population are American Indians mostly originated from the Southwest and Western interior.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, Native American settlements appear to have been limited to the area north of the Indian River, north of what is now Bethany Beach ; even after Europeans pushed the Native Americans — mostly Nanticokes -- out of their coastal settlements in the mid-17th century, the Native Americans moved west to settle around Oak Orchard, Delaware, and in the Millsboro, Delaware, area rather than south toward what would become Bethany Beach.

It is now home to mostly Jamaicans, West Indians and African Americans, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and in the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive ).

" As with most areas of the Inner Bluegrass Region, labor on the plantations was mostly enslaved African Americans.

The midcoast area of Maine was inhabited by coastal and woodland Native Americans such as the Abenaki ( or Wabanaki ) until they were mostly dislocated by Europeans beginning in the 17th century.

During the American Revolution, Yorktown was of strategic importance, with the Pines Bridge crossing guarded by a regiment of Rhode Island troops made up mostly of African Americans who were massacred at the Davenport House in Croton Heights.

" The Rough Riders were mostly made of native Americans, college athletes, cowboys, and ranchers.

Beginning in September 1824, nearly 6, 000 Americans, mostly free people of color, migrated to Haiti within a year, with ships departing from New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia.