Gibbons are native to which continent?
Herbert Adams Gibbons served as the Professor of History and Political Economy at Robert College in Istanbul. Between 1917 and 1918, Gibbons served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Between 1920 and 1931, he was a correspondent for various American magazines, sending dispatches from Europe, Asia, and Africa. In 1930, Gibbons was special correspondent for the New York Times in China and Manchuria. In 1931, as part of a world tour, Gibbons was the first person to cross the continent of Africa—from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean—by means of rail. While in the Belgian Congo, Gibbons learned that a new
Thunderbolt Gibbons Thunderbolt Gibbons Thunderbolt Gibbons, was the moniker of a Whiteboys captain in Ireland in the early nineteenth century. Gibbons was a native of Barnaderg and became the leader of the Whiteboy movement in the area. He was noted for his speed, which caused him to be popularly called 'Thunderbolt', and in relation to his many escapes from arrest. On the same night as a Whiteboy meeting at Tyquin, Athenry, a local 'Big House' was fired, and Gibbons was obliged to go on the run. He was forced to seek refuge in Connemara, but was eventually arrested. He was subsequently sentenced