1. Leisler's Rebellion
... day as Dutch artist Henri Couturier, the pro-Orangist Rotterdam group of English exiles, which included Gilbert Burnet, Charles Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and Charles Mordaunt, earl of Monmouth, as well as with the New England Divines Cotton and Increase Mather. In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 1689 when, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution, he assumed ... the first intercolonial military action independent of British authority. Leisler's administration of New York split the province into two distinct camps that were closely aligned with the Regent and Orangist ...
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