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?

<P0-S0> 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. <P0-S1> 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. <P0-S2> 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. <P0-S3> his parents are away, serving the king and queen during war, and the servants abandon the house, fearing the plague. <P0-S4> robin is saved by brother luke, a friar, who finds him and takes him to a monastery and cares for him. <SEP> <P1-S0> 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. <P1-S1> The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire. <P1-S2> The French promoted the rights of Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Christians. <P1-S3> 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. <P1-S4> 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> <P2-S0> 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. <P2-S1> 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. <SEP> <P3-S0> Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. <P3-S1> 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. <P3-S2> Returning from North America, it is easiest to follow the Gulf Stream in a northeasterly direction using the westerlies. <P3-S3> 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. <P3-S4> Columbus simply expanded the triangle outwards, and his route became the main way for Europeans to reach, and return from, the Americas. <SEP> <P4-S0> 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. <P4-S1> Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). <P4-S2> In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. <P4-S3> Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. <P4-S4> The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. <P4-S5> In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations.