The capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders, Bruges. The city was a magnet for merchants and various passerby in the fifteenth century.
In 1753, Ben Franklin won the Copley Medal awarded by the Royal Society of London. The same year, he was also awarded honorary doctorate degrees from a number of prestigious universities, including Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. In 1759, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
3/4 of immigrants who came to the Chesapeake colonies came as Indentured Servants.
