American Crusades (TRIH ep 152)
1637 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Andrew Preston (Cambridge) for a wide-ranging discussion about the role of Christianity in American foreign policy and warfare. Using early New England (including the 1637 massacre of Pequots and John Winthrop's 'city on a hill') as a starting point, they trace religious ideas — providential mission, crusading mentalities, and reformist/pacifist strains like Quakerism — through major moments: the French and Indian War, the Revolu...
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Around 1637
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)