Question: When did the folk who promoted the rights of Catholics, come to the middle leg of the journey from England to Africa to the Americas?

Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint - Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations. <SEP> Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. Returning from North America, it is easiest to follow the Gulf Stream in a northeasterly direction using the westerlies. A similar triangle to this, called the volta do mar was already being used by the Portuguese, before Christopher Columbus' voyage, to sail to the Canary Islands and the Azores. For example, from the main trading nations of Western Europe it was much easier to sail westwards after first going south of 30 N latitude and reaching the so - called ``trade winds ''; thus arriving in the Caribbean rather than going straight west to the North American mainland. Columbus simply expanded the triangle outwards, and his route became the main way for Europeans to reach, and return from, the Americas. <SEP> the story, illustrated by the author, is set in england during the middle ages, as the black death (bubonic plague) is sweeping across the country. young robin is sent away to become a knight like his father, but his dreams are endangered when he loses the use of his legs. a doctor reassures robin that the weakness in his legs is not caused by the plague and the doctor is supposed to come and help him but does not. his parents are away, serving the king and queen during war, and the servants abandon the house, fearing the plague. robin is saved by brother luke, a friar, who finds him and takes him to a monastery and cares for him. <SEP> The Crimean War was a military conflict fought between October 1853 – March 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Christians. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of the United Kingdom and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, have never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose", yet led to a war noted for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery." <SEP> long way down is a television series, book and dvd documenting a motorcycle journey undertaken in 2007 by ewan mcgregor and charley boorman, from john o' groats in scotland through eighteen countries in europe and africa to cape town in south africa. it is a follow-up to the "long way round" of 2004, when the pair rode east from london to new york via eurasia and north america.