He and his men went right around the world in tiny , ungainly boats. If you have ever been on the sea at all you can imagine the immensity of it. They had no maps or charts. Many of them thought the world was flat and had no idea of the raging seas south of Cape Horn or the tip of Africa. They had little food and certainly no fresh foods.
The Amazon River's source is at the base of the Mismi.
Thomas Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, predecessor of The Declaration Of Independence. Immediately on learning that the Virginia Convention had called for independence on May 15, 1776, Jefferson, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, wrote at least three drafts of a Virginia constitution.
When the British civilians were not allowed to move into the newly won Ohio valley. That was one reason the colonists prepared the revolutionary war, even thought it was not the main reason. But that is one of the first.
