Bullets and Belles Timeline of Events

Historical Events 1585: The Spanish establish a mission to convert Natives to Christianity. 1625: The French arrest control of the Spanish settlement and rename it Rock Creek. Haitian laborers are shipped in to tend fields of sugar, coffee, and tobacco. 1630-1730: Rock Creek changes hands between the French and the Spanish numerous times. 1738: Rock …

A Nation of Nations

The State of the Union, and the ConfederacyThe war of Southern Independence came to an end in April of 1865 when northerners accepted the surrender of General Robert E. Lee in Virginia*. Northern aggression continued in the South for an additional seven months until the North was able to capture the CSS Shenandoah. The end …