Examples of coloni in the following topics:
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- Later that year, Raleigh founded the colony of Roanoke on the coast of present-day North Carolina, but lack of supplies caused the colony to fail.
- Now at peace with its main rival, English attention shifted from preying on other nations' colonial infrastructures to the business of establishing its own overseas colonies.
- The Caribbean initially provided England's most important and lucrative colonies.
- In 1681, the colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn.
- Map of the British colonies in North America, 1763 to 1775.
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- It is only after 1665 that France gave its American colonies the proper means to develop population colonies comparable to that of the British.
- Colonies in Guadeloupe and Martinique were founded in 1635 and on Saint Lucia in 1650.
- France's most important Caribbean colonial possession was established in 1664, when the colony of Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti) was founded on the western half of the Spanish island of Hispaniola.
- In the 18th century, Saint-Domingue grew to be the richest sugar colony in the Caribbean.
- French colonial expansion wasn't limited to the New World.
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- Not much is known about pre-colonial Namibia but evidence suggests that a number of diverse peoples settled there as a result of ancient, medieval, and modern migrations.
- When the United Kingdom took control of the Cape Colony in 1797, they also took over Walvis Bay.
- In 1805 the London Missionary Society began working in Namibia, moving north from the Cape Colony.
- The first territorial claim on a part of Namibia came when Britain occupied Walvis Bay, confirming the settlement of 1797, and permitted the Cape Colony to annex it in 1878.
- The annexation was an attempt to forestall German ambitions in the area, and it also guaranteed control of the good deep water harbor on the way to the Cape Colony and other British colonies on Africa's east coast.
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- Between 1758 and 1760, the British military launched a campaign to capture the Colony of Canada.
- They succeeded in capturing territory in surrounding colonies and ultimately the city of Quebec (1759).
- The loss of these valuable colonies further weakened the French economy.
- Over the course of the war in colonies, Great Britain gained enormous areas of land and influence.
- They lost Minorca in the Mediterranean to the French in 1756 but captured, additionally to territories in Africa and North America, the French sugar colonies of Guadeloupe in 1759 and Martinique in 1762 as well as the Spanish cities of Havana in Cuba and Manila in the Philippines, both prominent Spanish colonial cities.
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- British colonial militia from Virginia were then sent to drive them out.
- The war preceded by events in North America and formally started in Europe soon also turned into a war for colonies outside of North America.
- The loss of these valuable colonies further weakened the French economy.
- Over the course of the war
in colonies, Great Britain gained enormous areas of land and influence.
- The English-speaking British colonies in North America fought what is known as the French and Indian War.
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- During the war, Great Britain had conquered the French colonies of Canada, Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago, the French trading posts in India, the slave-trading station at Gorée, the Sénégal River and its settlements, and the Spanish colonies of Manila in the Philippines and Havana in Cuba.
- Britain agreed to demolish its fortifications in British Honduras (now Belize), but retained a logwood-cutting colony there.
- Through the Treaty of Paris, Great Britain emerged as the world’s chief colonial empire, which was its primary goal in the war, and France lost most of its overseas possessions.
- Faced with the choice of retrieving either New France or its Caribbean island colonies of Guadeloupe and Martinique, France chose the latter to retain these lucrative sources of sugar, writing off New France as an unproductive, costly territory.
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- He was also careful in the way he approached overseas colonies.
- England's American colonies in this period consisted of the New England Confederation, the Providence Plantation, the Virginia Colony, and the Maryland Colony.
- This involved secret preparations for an attack on the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and resulted in the invasion of Jamaica, which then became an English colony.
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- Louis XV's controversial decision following the War of the Austrian Succession and his loss in the Seven Years' War weakened the international position of France that lost most of its colonial holdings.
- Louis XIV's successor and great-grandson, Louis XV, thus inherited a country with a reputation of a military, political, colonial, and cultural power.
- The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle turned out to be only a short-lived truce in the conflict between Austria and Prussia over the province of Silesia while France and Britain were in conflict over colonial possessions.
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the war, Great Britain had conquered the French colonies of Canada, Guadeloupe,
Saint Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago, the
French trading posts in India, the slave-trading station at Gorée, the Sénégal
River and its settlements, and the Spanish colonies of Manila in the
Philippines and Havana in Cuba.
- In the aftermath of the lost Seven Years' War, France lost most of its colonial holdings in North America and some, although not all, of its colonies in the Caribbean.