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Caribbean Islands British Control
1,330 words... early - the Caribs either killed or held the missionaries hostage and the Spanish were not willing to pit their fighting skills against a skilled enemy and the rugged terrain of Dominica. In fact, this attitude pretty much summed up how the next wave of European colonists, the English and the French, were to feel when they arrived in Dominica at the start of the 1600 's. The English and the French were in a race to colonize the Caribbean in order to tap into the riches that lay in exploiting...
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The French And Indian War
1,598 wordsThe French and Indian Wars were the last conflicts between the French and the English for control over New England. They were a series of four wars including the King Williams War, The Queen Annes War, The King Georges War, and the Seven-Year War all fought between the years of 1689 to 1763. These Wars took place in Europe and America between the British and the French. None of the wars were directly fought between the French and the Indians. They were actually between the French and the English...
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British East India East India Company
1,076 wordsBeginnings The first time that the British came into contact from outside people since the disappearance of the land bridge connecting the British Isles to mainland Europe occured in the year 43 A. D. This was the year that Ceasar send a Roman expeditionary force under the command of August Plates to the British Isles. Although the indigenous Celtic tribesmen put up heavy initial resistance, superior armed and trained Roman Legionnairies were able to subdue them and successfully occupy Great Bri...
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Library Of Congress East Africa
2,167 words... , which meant establishing a colonial government and a river fleet, so in 1886, the National African Company was chartered as the Royal Niger Company, and charged with administering, in the name of the Queen, an area one-hundred times larger than Great Britain itself (Chamberlain 58). In West Africa, Britain had really been trying to keep France, and later Germany, out. The simplest explanation for the rampant European interest in West Africa was trade. In East Africa, which was considerably...
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Mohandas K British Control
1,569 wordsIn the late 1800? s and the early 1900? s the people of northern Europe, southern Africa and Asia were in despair. They had no leaders. They were defenseless. India had been taken over by the British Empire and now the 315 million Indians were under the rule of the 100 thousand British soldiers there. In Germany there were six different political groups; nobody knew what to do. These countries were in shock, they need a change, but more importantly, they needed a leader. Mohandas K. Gandhi was a...
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2,721 wordsOFFICIAL NAME: Commonwealth of Dominica CAPITAL: Roseau SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: Multiparty Republic AREA: 751 Sq Km (290 Sq Mi) ESTIMATED 2000 POPULATION 79, 800 LOCATION &# 038; GEOGRAPHY: Dominica is an island located at the northern end of the windward chain of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It is situated between the French island groups of Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south. The island is almost rectangular in shape and has a deeply indented coast line. It is of vo...
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Hong Kong Qing Dynasty
2,525 wordsHong Kong has had a long and complex past and looks to have a waning and declining economy. Hong Kong has a peculiar political past. It was taken over by the British after the two Opium Wars. The Treaty of Nanjing gave the British control of the island port of Hong Kong and access to other ports. Afterwards, the second Opium War broke out and this gave the British control of the peninsula of Kowloon. Soon afterwards, the British leased the New Territories from Chinese for 99 years. In 1984 they ...
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