Long and expensive conflicts drained time, resources, and lives.
Millions died from religious violence in France alone. As the violence diminished in Europe,
however, religious and political rivalries continued in the New World.
Labor shortages, meanwhile, crippled Dutch colonization. The patroon system failed to bring enough tenants, and the colony could not attract a sufficient number of indentured servants to satisfy the colony’s backers. In response, the colony imported eleven enslaved people owned by the company in 1626, the same year that Minuit purchased Manhattan. Enslaved laborers were tasked with building New Amsterdam (modern-day New York City), including a defensive wall along the northern edge of the colony (the site of modern-day Wall Street). They created its roads and maintained its all-important port. Fears of racial mixing led the Dutch to import enslaved women, enabling the formation of African Dutch families. The colony’s first African marriage occurred in 1641, and by 1650 there were at least five hundred enslaved Africans in the colony. By 1660, New Amsterdam had the largest urban enslaved population on the continent.
A Christian enterprise, a blow against Spain, an economic stimulus,
and a social safety valve all beckoned the English toward a commitment to colonization.19
This noble rhetoric veiled the coarse economic motives that brought England to the New World. New economic structures and a new merchant class paved the way for colonization. England’s merchants lacked estates, but they had new plans to build wealth. By collaborating with new government-sponsored trading monopolies and employing financial innovations such as joint-stock companies, England’s merchants sought to improve on the Dutch economic system.
The Spark:
Mexico encouraged Anglo settlement in Texas for the same reason that Spain had done so earlier.
After the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty defined the U.S.-Mexico boundary,
Spain began actively encouraging Americans to settle their northern province.
Texas was sparsely settled, and the few Mexican farmers and ranchers who lived there were under constant
attack by hostile Indian tribes, especially the Comanche.
Open conflict erupted on October 2, 1835, at the Battle of Gonzales,
where Texian militia refused to surrender a cannon loaned for defense against Native Americans,
famously flying the "Come and Take It" flag.
Mexican government wanted to encourage the development of the lands and were having difficulty
defending against the Comanche and Apache raids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dES_NRyKsM
Birth ~1383 Yorkshire, England
Halifax not mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Land-tax known as the geld.
When abishop or abbot died they delayed the appointment to rake in the profits of the estates during the vacancy.
Exon Domesday was written at Old Sarum.
Writing in the early 12th century, William of Malmesbury lamented that “England has become a dwelling-place of foreigners and a playground for lords of alien blood. No Englishman today is an earl, a bishop, or an abbot; new faces everywhere enjoy England’s riches and gnaw her vitals,
nor is there any hope of ending this miserable state of affairs.”
Easter Island B is replete with Treason. Again.