Today's American Minute
Anglo-Dutch Wars, Admiral William Penn, & the founding of Quaker Pennsylvania - American Minute with Bill Federer
The Second Anglo-Dutch War took place 1665-1667.
Admiral Sir William Penn again helped defeat the Dutch navy.
This resulted in Britain capturing the Dutch colonies in America, including:
- New Amsterdam, which was renamed New York; and
- the land that had been New Sweden, which was renamed Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Charlie Kirk's Thanksgiving interview with Bill Federer - Nov. 23, 2023
discussing the book ... The Treacherous World of the 16th Century & How the Pilgrims Escaped It: The Prequel to America's Freedom
Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & others - American Minute with Bill Federer
& others Jefferson Lincoln Madison Roosevelt Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington
Traitor Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point was thwarted. The Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780: "In the late remarkable interposition of His watchful providence, in the rescuing the person of our Commander-in-Chief and the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for execution ... it is therefore recommended ... a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer ... to confess our unworthiness ... and to offer fervent supplications to the God of all grace ... to cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth."
Pilgrim Thanksgiving, Struggles, Dangers and Attacks, Then and Now - American Minute with Bill Federer
Pilgrim Edward Winslow recorded in Mourt's Relation that in the Fall of 1621: "God be praised we had a good increase ... Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week."
Pilgrims tried Communism and rejected it -- replacing it with Property owned by Individuals who could then be Charitable! - American Minute with Bill Federer
Bradford described: "They began to consider how to raise more corn, and obtain a better crop ... that they might not continue to endure the misery of want ... After much debate, the Governor, with the advice of the chief among them, allowed each man to plant corn for his own household ... So every family was assigned a parcel of land ... This was very successful."