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Do Britain & America have any connections with Corsica?

April 26, 2017America Britain corsica

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Do Britain & America have any connections with Corsica?

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Many. Christopher Columbus was born in Calvi (its just that Genoa was the occupier of Corsica at the time, high jacked all the records and claimed him for themselves!). Admiral (then Commander) Nelsons capture of the French held citadels in 1794, led to the creation of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom (and by the way, he lost the sign of his eye in the process). Thomas Jefferson Pasquale Paolis constitution of Corsica (1755) made a big influence on Thomas Jefferson (who he knew in London) and therefore on the US Constitution and indeed there towns of Paoli in Colorado, Indiana, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania (plus theres Corsica in Pennsylvania and South Dakota & Corsicana in Texas). See British & American Connections with Corsica.