In 1770 Crispus Attucks became the first man to fall in the struggle with the British. His life was representative of the free blacks of his era -- a runaway, he worked for 20 years at various ...

1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775: Peter Salem, a black Patriot, fights at Lexington and Concord. 1780: Elizabeth Freeman wins her suit for emancipation under the new ...

Previous MoD statements have said the Indian Army intends to procure 1,770 FRCVs over several phases. The first phase is intended to feature the production of 590 vehicles, although it will likely ...

The only major famines in Bengal in the past three centuries have been in 1770, 1866, and 1943-44. Generally sufficient rainfall and low variability, relative to other parts of the subcontinent, are ...

Between 1769 and 1770 a famine hit the Bengal region. Due to bad weather the harvest had failed to produce enough crops. Many farmers had no reserves of food because they had had to sell their ...