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  2. The Settlers (1993 video game) - Wikipedia

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    The Settlers isn't like most games where the player has just one or two characters to guide through the game. The Settlers ' world is a unique place with all the elements of the real world". Wertich worked on the programming of the game for a year, writing 70,000 lines of 68000 assembly code, before any work began on the graphics.

  3. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Rodes. Walter Russell, Gentleman and Doctor [ 19] Richard Savage (Salvage), Labourer. Thomas Savage (Salvage), Boy and Labourer [ 20] Matthew Scrivener, secretary, appointed to be of the Council (d. January 7, 1609) Lt. Michael Sicklemore, Gentleman. William Simons, Labourer.

  4. Bacon's Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. [ 2] Thousands of Virginians from all classes (including those in indentured servitude ...

  5. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian settlers in North Dakota, 1898. The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total ...

  6. The Settlers - Wikipedia

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    The Settlers (German: Die Siedler) is a city-building and real-time strategy video game series created by Volker Wertich in 1993. The original game was released on the Amiga, with subsequent games released primarily on MS-DOS and Windows: The Settlers II (1996), The Settlers III (1998), The Settlers IV (2001), The Settlers: Heritage of Kings (2004), The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (2007), and ...

  7. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana free people of color were often literate and educated, with a significant number owning businesses, properties, and even slaves. [133] [134] Although Code Noir forbade interracial marriages, interracial unions were widespread.

  8. List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

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    This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).

  9. List of Indian massacres in North America - Wikipedia

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    White settlers killed over a thousand Yuki Indians in Round Valley over the course of three years in an uncountable number of separate massacres. 1000+ [229] [230] 1858 Aug 9–17 Fraser Canyon War: British Columbia Settlers killed dozens of Nlaka’pamux non-combatants and burned five villages. 36+ [231] July 1859 to January 1860: Jarboe's War ...