Who / What / Where Game - Page 921

Jimbuna · 12-01-20, 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Where and what is this historic place?

Bunce Island and the site of the former British slave castle?

Aktungbby · 12-01-20, 11:48 AM

Exactly!

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Henry Laurens, a wealthy South Carolina slave dealer and rice planter, was Bunce Island's business agent in Charles Town before the American Revolutionary War. After the war began, Laurens became the President of the Continental Congress, and when the fighting finally ended, he was named one of the American Peace Commissioners who negotiated U.S. Independence under the Treaty of Paris. Amazingly, Richard Oswald, Bunce Island's London-based owner, was appointed head of the British negotiating team in Paris. In other words, United States Independence was negotiated, in part, between Bunce Island's British owner and his American business agent in South Carolina. The relationship between these two men reflects Bunce Island's importance in the commerce that linked Britain, North America, and West Africa during the Colonial Period.

Mr Laurens, first president of the Continental Congress, was captured at sea, returning from his duties as Ambassador to Holland. The Brits found the documents pertaining to a commercial treaty with the Americans, and declared war on Holland. Mr Laurens was imprisoned in the Tower of London for years till rescued by his Mentor, Richard Oswald, under whom he'd apprenticed in London as a youth; Laurens was exchanged for General Lord Cornwallis after Yorktown...

<Laurens is depicted standing in this unfinished painting (4th from left) next to Paris peace negotiators: John Jay, John Adams, Ben Franklin. U.S.General Colin Powell visited the island to "get in touch with his roots"; and the Gullah people of South Carolina trace their ancestry(American east coast) back to Sierra Leone to this day. Over to Jimbuna!

http://www.bunce-island.org/

Jimbuna · 12-01-20, 01:00 PM

May be tomorrow morning I'm afraid.

Jimbuna · 12-01-20, 01:23 PM

Nope, just found this.

What might this be?

Buddahaid · 12-01-20, 01:23 PM

A building?

Jimbuna · 12-01-20, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

A building?

It is yes.

Aktungbby · 12-01-20, 01:39 PM

in England?

Jimbuna · 12-01-20, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

in England?

Not England but it would fit in well here.

Buddahaid · 12-01-20, 04:03 PM

Lighthouse?

Aktungbby · 12-01-20, 04:56 PM

India?

mapuc · 12-01-20, 05:00 PM

is it a sort of a special building ?

Markus

skidman · 12-01-20, 05:23 PM

A sports facility?

Jimbuna · 12-02-20, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Lighthouse?

I can see why you'd think that but this is a stranger shape.

Jimbuna · 12-02-20, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

India?

No but it is in a large country.

Jimbuna · 12-02-20, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by mapuc

is it a sort of a special building ?

Markus

It is a special shape.

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Originally Posted by skidman

A sports facility?

A companies headquarters building.

12-01-20, 01:00 PM	#13803
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12-01-20, 01:23 PM	#13804
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,691 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Nope, just found this. What might this be? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

12-01-20, 01:23 PM	#13805
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,577 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	A building? __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

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12-01-20, 04:03 PM	#13809
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12-01-20, 04:56 PM	#13810
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,016 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	India? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

12-01-20, 05:00 PM	#13811
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