USA is a country build on ethnic cleansing and genocides of original native tribes by the European colonists.
As the Europeans came closer in contact with the natives, along the coast of Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, they brought along with them diseases, such as smallpox, plague, measles and other illnesses that depopulated entire villages, killing between 55 to 95 per cent of coastal native people.
Diseases was supported by massacres. In May 1637, captains John Underhill and John Mason led a retaliatory mission through Narragansett land along with their allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan, and struck the Pequot settlement in Mystic, in the event which came be known as the Mystic massacre. Uncas and Wequash also joined the fight, bringing seventy of his own men. The settlement, mostly of women and children, was decimated. Mason set fire to eighty homes, killing 600–700 Pequot in an hour. Seven were taken captive and seven escaped. Two Englishmen were killed, while 20-40 were wounded.
Captain John Underhill, one of the English commanders, documents the event in his journal, Newes from America:
Down fell men, women, and children. Those that 'scaped us, fell into the hands of the Indians that were in the rear of us. Not above five of them 'scaped out of our hands. Our Indians came us and greatly admired the manner of Englishmen's fight, but cried "Mach it, mach it!"—that is, "It is naught, it is naught, because it is too furious, and slays too many men." Great and doleful was the bloody sight to the view of young soldiers that never had been in war, to see so many souls lie gasping on the ground, so thick, in some places, that you could hardly pass along.
Mystic is an old seaport that is well preserved and a very popular tourist attraction.
Mystic has the biggest Seaport Museum in USA
Training ship Georg Stage (in the background)
This first edition of Georg Stage was built in 1882 by Burmeister & Wain on Refshaleøen in Copenhagen. The old Georg Stage was a full-rigged ship with a length of 36 meters, width of 7.7 meters and a draft of 3.7 meters. The ship had a steam engine of 50 hp. The original crew were 80 students and 10 officers.
Georg Stage is today at Mystic Marine Museum.
On 25 June 1905 sank Georg Stage when it was rammed by the English steamer Ancona in Hollænderdybet just north of Copenhagen harbor and 22 students drowned.
The ship was quickly salvaged and repaired after the disaster and then proceeded navigation as Danish training ship until 1934.
Georg Stage, it was sold to the Australian Alan Villiers, who renamed the ship to Joseph Conrad. It sailed under the British flag on a circumnavigation, which lasted approx. 2 years. The start went from Ipswich on 22 October 1934 and the ship visits include New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Sydney, New Zealand and Tahiti. The ship completed the journey in New York on 16 October 1936. Subsequently published Villiers books The Cruise of the "Conrad" and Stormalong who referred journey.
In 1936 the ship was sold to the American millionaire George Huntington Hartford since Villiers had gone bankrupt as a result of circumnavigation. Hartford ship equipped with a modern engine and used it as a personal yacht for three years, where the ship including participated in a race for sailing ships from the U.S. to Bermuda and back. In 1939 he sold the ship for 1 dollar and 1 cent to the United States. After the ship was again training ship and sailed as such until 1945. The ship was in dock a few years after which it was transferred to the Marine Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.
Mystic is an old seaport that is well preserved and a very popular tourist attraction.
Mystic has the biggest Seaport Museum in USA
Training ship Georg Stage (in the background)
This first edition of Georg Stage was built in 1882 by Burmeister & Wain on Refshaleøen in Copenhagen. The old Georg Stage was a full-rigged ship with a length of 36 meters, width of 7.7 meters and a draft of 3.7 meters. The ship had a steam engine of 50 hp. The original crew were 80 students and 10 officers.
Georg Stage is today at Mystic Marine Museum.
On 25 June 1905 sank Georg Stage when it was rammed by the English steamer Ancona in Hollænderdybet just north of Copenhagen harbor and 22 students drowned.
The ship was quickly salvaged and repaired after the disaster and then proceeded navigation as Danish training ship until 1934.
Georg Stage, it was sold to the Australian Alan Villiers, who renamed the ship to Joseph Conrad. It sailed under the British flag on a circumnavigation, which lasted approx. 2 years. The start went from Ipswich on 22 October 1934 and the ship visits include New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Sydney, New Zealand and Tahiti. The ship completed the journey in New York on 16 October 1936. Subsequently published Villiers books The Cruise of the "Conrad" and Stormalong who referred journey.
In 1936 the ship was sold to the American millionaire George Huntington Hartford since Villiers had gone bankrupt as a result of circumnavigation. Hartford ship equipped with a modern engine and used it as a personal yacht for three years, where the ship including participated in a race for sailing ships from the U.S. to Bermuda and back. In 1939 he sold the ship for 1 dollar and 1 cent to the United States. After the ship was again training ship and sailed as such until 1945. The ship was in dock a few years after which it was transferred to the Marine Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.
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