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In the summer of 1561, Spanish explorers abducted a Powhatan Indian youth from the Chesapeake Bay tidewater region and brought him to the royal court of Spain. The kidnapping set off a chain of events that would alter the course of American colonial history. The abduction itself wasn’t unusual, since the Spanish in America often trained Native youth to serve as interpreters, or pressed them for information about local peoples and perhaps the whereabouts of gold or silver. But “Paquiquineo,” as Spanish officials rendered the young man’s name later that year, would in time re-emerge as Opechancanough, the most formidable...

The Continental Colors (also known later as the Grand Union Flag) was the first flag of the United States, raised for the first time by John Paul Jones on December 3, 1775. This flag was used by both the army and navy until the adoption of the Flag Act of 1777, which changed the blue field from the British Union Flag to the 13-star design.

Don’t be surprised when a reporter for the liberal mainstream media shoves a microphone in your face at your local April 15th Tea Party demonstration and smugly asks, “Are you aware that the Boston Tea Party was actually initiated over a tax cut, not a tax increase?” Smile politely and answer oh-so-sweetly, “Yes, a tax cut for the British.” Confused? That’s the point. The liberal left is out to embarrass you ignorant, backwoods, Bible-thumping, gun-toting, conservative rednecks. Rather than speaking their lies to power, they’re playing cat-and-mouse with the wretched truth this time: The Tea Act of 1773 was actually...