On Jul 14, 2014, Chrystal wrote:
Merci, Thanks Bob!


For those folks interested to know what Bastille Day or Fete Nationale is, you can check out the brief description here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day

On Jul 15, 2014, mastermindreader wrote:
Several of America's founding fathers were directly involved with the French Revolution, notably Thomas Paine, whose "The Age of Reason," was written in direct response to it. In fact, the American Revolution had a great influence on the events in France. Also note that 1789, the year the French Revolution began, was also the year that the United States adopted our present Constitution and became the country we have today. (Prior to that we were governed by the Articles of Confederation.)

The modern histories of the United States and France are closely intertwined.

On Jul 16, 2014, Chrystal wrote:
General Magician, while I'm not a gamer it's very ironic that you mentions Assassins Creed as my b/f was part of the team on game #5! He had to relocate while doing so but is now currently working on something closer to home.

Thanks to everyone for all the info! If I'm not in France next year than I'm going to have to perhaps check out the one in Seattle.

On Jul 16, 2014, mastermindreader wrote:
Leave it to tommy to pee all over someone else's celebration.

I'll be sure to get back to you on Guy Fawkes Day.

The classic era of piracy was in the Caribbean, from around 1650 up until the mid-1720s.[31] By 1650, France, England and the United Provinces began to develop their colonial empires. This involved considerable seaborne trade, and a general economic improvement: there was money to be made—or stolen—and much of it traveled by ship.

French buccaneers were established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625,[32] but lived at first mostly as hunters rather than robbers; their transition to full-time piracy was gradual and motivated in part by Spanish efforts to wipe out both the buccaneers and the prey animals on which they depended. The buccaneers' migration from Hispaniola's mainland to the more defensible offshore island of Tortuga limited their resources and accelerated their piratical raids. According to Alexandre Exquemelin, a buccaneer and historian who remains a major source on this period, the Tortuga buccaneer Pierre Le Grand pioneered the settlers' attacks on galleons making the return voyage to Spain.

Between 1713 and 1714, a succession of peace treaties was signed which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. With the end of this conflict, thousands of seamen, including Britain's paramilitary privateers, were relieved of military duty. The result was a large number of trained, idle sailors at a time when the cross-Atlantic colonial shipping trade was beginning to boom. In addition, Europeans who had been pushed by unemployment to become sailors and soldiers involved in slaving were often enthusiastic to abandon that profession and turn to pirating, giving pirate captains for many years a constant pool of trained European recruits to be found in west African waters and coasts.

On Jul 15, 2014, General_Magician wrote:

Quote:

On Jul 15, 2014, mastermindreader wrote:
Several of America's founding fathers were directly involved with the French Revolution, notably Thomas Paine, whose "The Age of Reason," was written in direct response to it. In fact, the American Revolution had a great influence on the events in France. Also note that 1789, the year the French Revolution began, was also the year that the United States adopted our present Constitution and became the country we have today. (Prior to that we were governed by the Articles of Confederation.)

The modern histories of the United States and France are closely intertwined.

You know, I should read up on the French Revolution when I get a chance. I think it was certainly one of the more influential revolutions in history.