... raiding Indian food supplies. 2. 1610- Relations were even more strained when Lord De La Warr arrived. He destroyed Indian towns, until a peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614, sealed by a marriage between Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe. 3. A weak peace lasted for 8 years until the Indians struck back after settlers continued to press inland. ... some sort of religious toleration. Church of England was dominant. 4. Because tobacco farming stripped the soil, and because settlers settled along rivers, there were constantly confrontations with Indians. II. Settling...

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... against him. But MacMurrough did not accept his defeat and so he travelled to Acquitaine in order to swear fealty to the English king Henry II. Up to this point, although Henry had been granted the Lordship of Ireland through the disputed Papal Bull "Laudabiliter" by Pope Adrian IV ( ... was forced into summoning one at Westminster in order to raise revenue. Westminster demanded reforms which would have greatly reduced the king's powers and so civil war seemed imminent. It seemed the appropriate time for the Irish to assert themselves. On 23 October 1641 a rising began at Dungannon, Char...

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... their new King. For 21 years, William the Conqueror built England into a very dominant country that he handed over to his son, William Rufus. William II was a man after his father's image. He was very regal in look and very frugal in his spending of royal money. He was very arrogant, ... of others, he was excessively devoted to money and to cruelty. With Rufus's reign came the precursor to events that would happen 52 years latter. William II's brother, Duke Robert Curthouse made a claim to the throne. He had much of Normandy under his control before he got caught up in the fervor ... mo...

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... . The owner might frequently be absent, in which case, the castle would be occupied by only the caretaker and a few servants. In time of war, the castle would be garrisoned by the lord's tenantry, fulfilling one of their feudal obligations; castle-guard. Once the crisis was past, the garrison would ... 's existing castles began as motte and bailey castles. Windsor Castle, Berkshire, perhaps England's most famous castle and the favorite home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is in origin a motte and bailey castle. In fact, it has two baileys (see illus. at right), one on each side of its ...

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... England, and one with Italy? It may have something to do with the politics of the looming war, we think. It's not that England and Italy were fighting yet (that didn't happen really until World War II). But England was about to enter a conflict that began (and would be fought) on the European ... this poem is his way of working through that imminent possibility. (Historically, for Brooke, that possibility became a sad reality when he went off to war and died of infection not long after this poem was written.) So we feel that we must give the speaker props for dealing with reality, rather ...

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