The Zimmerman telegram was a message sent by Germany to MEXICO to cripple a few of their states in 1917 during the first world war. The transmission never reached mexico however and was intercepted by British inelegance.
Most of the scots irish who came to the colonies were farm laborers or tenant farmers who were leaving behind droughts and crop failures
In agreement with the Declaration of the Human Rights, drafted at the very beginning of the French Revolution, slavery was abolished in the French colonies overseas. For some strange reason Napoleon Bonaparte revoked that decree in 1802 during the Consulate, which resulted in the slave revolt of Haiti and ensuing independence in 1803.
