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Most of Europe did that with their 2nd and 3rd sons. I can't seem to find the source, but I have heard that the flag of South Carolina has a crescent moon on it
by Balgair 6y ago
Most of Europe did that with their 2nd and 3rd sons. I can't seem to find the source, but I have heard that the flag of South Carolina has a crescent moon on it due to all the minor sons that came there to find their riches (Crescent Moons were common on the heraldry of minor sons).
San Domingue, now Haiti, was also a place where these nobles went off to get rich.
The new world was filled with these kinds of guys.
- rjsw 6y agoOne problem with the Jamestown colony seems to have been that the settlers were only this kind of people, not people who could do useful stuff.