Cameroon: The Slave General of Peter the Great (TRIH ep 279)
1705 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present a Rest Is History World Cup special episode about Avram Petrovich Gannibal, the African-born ancestor of Alexander Pushkin. They trace Gannibal's probable origins in the region of modern Cameroon, his kidnapping and sale into slavery, and his arrival at the Ottoman court before being taken to St. Petersburg as part of Peter the Great's entourage. Peter baptizes and educates him; Gannibal studies in France, serves in the French artillery, and lat...
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- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)