Colony

En Global Express Tours el 2010.04.13

Born as the City of the Kings, the current capital of Peru was not only the center of the Spanish administration in America for more than 300 years, but it was also an oasis of European culture inside the New World. Capital of a great empire that was born in Nicaragua and finished in the Strait of Magellan, iit was the headquarters and promoter of an architectural and religious cultural development imitated by the remainder cities founded by the Spaniards in American lands. The history of Lima begins...

En Historia, history el 2009.06.20

From this time till the American Revolution New York continued a province of the Crown. Royal governor succeeded royal governor, some of them better, some worse. Of the entire line Bellomont was the most worthy official, Cornbury the least so. One of the problems which chiefly worried all of them was how to execute the navigation acts, which, evaded everywhere, were here unscrupulously defied. Another care of the governors, in which they succeeded but very imperfectly, was to establish the English...