The second president of the United States was John Adams.
The movie the Patriot shows the efforts of Southern resistance fighters during the American revolution.
The movie indicates, correctly, that many who fought in the American Revolution as older men fought in the French & Indian War as younger men.
Crimean war weakened the economy of Ottoman empire. Crimean war was a conflict for militaries where russia empire lost their alliance of Sardinia, Britain, France and Ottoman empire
The Silk Road trade was one of the trades that were stoped