Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. ... Henry wanted to find a water route to India. ... Prince Henry helped unlock the secrets of Africa. ... Henry was a visionary. ... The ships then traveled to America, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, rum, salt, and other island products. ...
The massacres of Catholic Henry III of France 1589, Protestant William the Silent of the Dutch Republic 1584, and Protestant turned Catholic Henry IV of France 1610 after 19 failed attempts, as well as countless massacres and wars provoked by religious differences, impelled a new approach to governing. ... At 1st her accession seemed nothing more than a continuations of monarchical instability - her first two acts were to have her husband, Peter III, murdered and to lower the salt tax. ...
Few have accomplished this goal like Davy Crockett, Henry Ford, Daniel Boone, and various U.S. ... Henry Ford is most well known for Ford Motor Company but very few people know that he was the son of an Irish immigrant who married during the American Civil War. When Henry grew up he was discriminated against because of his Irish decent but he overcame adversity and the rest is history. ... In 1767 Boone traveled into the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. ...
Participants wrote in salt inks that would appear invisible on the paper of the letters; this is how they established the name "invisible ink.... " The production of the Culper ring was the main reason Washington revealed the treason of American general Benedict Arnold and John Andre, chief intelligence officer beneath General Henry Clinton and commander of the British forced in New York. ...
