<span>Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian minister and was also the leader and co-founder of the American Temperance Movement. He fathered 13 children, one of whom was Harriet Beecher Stowe who authored Uncle Tom's Cabin.</span>
The British were at a disadvantage since they were fighting on land that was not their own, and they didn't know it as well.
Cocoa beans were their form of money. They were what's called "bartering", or "trading".
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~Isle of flightless Duns
1917 fountain sculpture by Marcel Duchamp