Seventeenth-Century Colonial Revolts Quiz

The armed Puritans intended to attack the Pequot community in the New England wilderness in May 1637.

The Puritans referred to themselves as the 'Sword of the Lord' during the attack.

Other soldiers waited with swords and guns for the Pequot men, women, and children as they tried to escape the blaze.

<p>The Puritans put the Mystic community to the torch, resulting in devastating violence and destruction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One commander estimated that of the 'four hundred souls in this Fort…not above five' survived.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Benjamin Guy Horniman was born in Dove Court, Sussex, England.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Horniman worked as a news editor at the Statesman in Calcutta.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Bombay Chronicle was founded by Pherozeshah Mehta.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The paper adopted a trenchant anti-colonial voice and became a mouthpiece of the freedom movement under Horniman.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two years after taking charge of The Bombay Chronicle, Horniman founded the Press Association of.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Benjamin Guy Horniman was born in Dove Court, Sussex, England.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The name of the newspaper was The Bombay Chronicle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The paper adopted a trenchant anti-colonial voice and became a mouthpiece of the freedom movement under Horniman.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Benjamin Guy Horniman founded the Press Association of India two years after taking charge of The Bombay Chronicle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He began his journalistic career at the Portsmouth Evening Mail in 1894.</p> Signup and view all the answers