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This first Georgia slave code, which was not as detailed as the codes of the older slave colonies, was quickly determined to be too lenient.
The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them.
Due to a common history and culture, former colonial powers created institutions which more loosely associated their former colonies.
The diverse groups from these various regions built colonies of distinctive social, religious, political, and economic style.
Some of the colonies developed legalized systems of slavery, centered largely around the Atlantic slave trade.
England, France, and the Netherlands had also started colonies in both the West Indies and North America.
Initially, matters concerning the colonies were dealt with primarily by the Privy Council and its committees.
Other countries did attempt to found colonies in America over the following century, and most of these attempts ended in failure.
As early as 1687, the Spanish government had begun to offer asylum to slaves from British colonies.
Rather, the motivation behind the founding of colonies was piecemeal and variable.
During the 17th century, the New Haven and Saybrook colonies were absorbed by Connecticut.
New Jersey began as a division of New York, and was divided into the proprietary colonies of East and West Jersey for a time.
The French and Spanish established colonies in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.
The colonies gradually passed laws that hardened early conditions of indenture into lifelong racial slavery attached to African descent.
By 1729, the proprietary government had collapsed, and the Proprietors sold both colonies back to the British crown.
Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain in 1763, which established the colonies of East and West Florida.
The Puritan colonies of New England formed a confederation to coordinate military and judicial matters.
Britain also gained Spanish Florida, from which it formed the colonies of East and West Florida.
In removing a major foreign threat to the thirteen colonies, the war also largely removed the colonists' need of colonial protection.
The colonies were very different from one another but they were still a part of the British Empire in more than just name.
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Another point on which the colonies found themselves more similar than different was the booming import of British goods.
Beginning late in the 17th century, the administration of all British colonies was overseen by the Board of Trade in London.
New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and eventually Massachusetts were crown colonies.
They were governed much as royal colonies except that lord proprietors, rather than the king, appointed the governor.
Massachusetts, Providence Plantation, Rhode Island, Warwick, and Connecticut were charter colonies.
The Crown never appointed a bishop in the American colonies because of resistance from other churches.
Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading material in the colonies.
Theater was more developed in the Southern colonies, especially South Carolina, but nowhere did stage works attain the level of Europe.
The Southern colonies in particular relied on cash crops such as tobacco and cotton.
The Southern colonies were mainly dominated by the wealthy planters in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina.
In 1707, the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England gave Scottish merchants access to the English colonies, especially in North America.
After 1765, growing philosophical and political differences strained the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies.
Meanwhile, representatives from twelve colonies convened the First Continental Congress to respond to the crisis.
These increasing tensions led to a mutual scramble for ordnance and pushed the colonies toward open war.
After a speech by the King, Parliament rejected to oppose coercive measures on the colonies by 170 votes.
In the colonies, the success of Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense had boosted public support for independence.
Efforts could then be concentrated on the southern colonies, where it was believed Loyalist support was in abundance.
Spain was wary of provoking war with Britain before she was ready, so she covertly supplied the Patriots via her colonies in New Spain.
Moreover, American troops were being supplied with ordnance by Dutch merchants via their West Indies colonies.
The colonies had never been formally united prior to the conflict and there was no centralized area of ultimate strategic importance.
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Following the end of the war, Britain had lost some of her most populous colonies.
In the Netherlands, textiles were often inspired by batik patterns from the Dutch colonies in the East Indies.
They normally nest in large colonies, on cliffs overlooking the ocean or on small rocky islands.
For this reason there is a close relationship between the location of northern gannet breeding colonies and the distribution of these fish.
Northern gannet colonies can be found in the far north in regions that are very cold and stormy.
Some breeding colonies have been recorded as being located in the same place for hundreds of years.
The cliffs containing the colonies appear to be covered in snow when seen from a distance, due to the number of nests present on them.
Immature northern gannets from colonies in Canada fly to the Gulf of Mexico while the adults do not fly that far.
Recently they are reported to have attacked and eaten great cormorants and in some cases destroyed whole colonies.
The Romans built a large number of towns throughout their empire, often as colonies for the settlement of citizens or veterans.
The Scots went in search of a better life and settled in the thirteen colonies, mainly around South Carolina and Virginia.
Scotland's leading thinkers of the revolutionary age, David Hume and Adam Smith, opposed the use of force against the rebellious colonies.
Growth was rapid after 1700, as Scottish ports, especially those on the Clyde, began to import tobacco from the American colonies.
Belgium participated in the Industrial Revolution and, during the course of the 20th century, possessed a number of colonies in Africa.
During the empire, colonies were showcases of Roman culture and examples of the Roman way of life.
Latin became prominent in certain areas around new veteran colonies like Berytus.
Freedmen slaves, those of the Cives Romani convicted of crimes, or citizens settling Latin colonies could be given this status under the law.
Slaveowners in the West Indies and the American colonies found that slaves were more productive if they were clothed.
Unlike residents of many of the colonies, Quakers chose to trade peacefully with the Indians, including for land.
Prior to the Cambrian explosion, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies.
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This shearwater is mainly silent at sea, even when birds are gathered off the breeding colonies.
Since it visits its breeding colonies at night, a shearwater has adaptations for nocturnal vision too.
The most important colonies, with a total of more than 300,000 pairs, are on islands off Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
They are able to detect the Earth's magnetic field and hence navigate back to their colonies.
It is silent at sea, but at night the breeding colonies are alive with raucous cackling calls.
Males return to the colonies in which they were hatched, but up to half of females may move elsewhere.
They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil.
Although the puffins are vocal at their breeding colonies, they are silent at sea.
They form large, dense, noisy colonies during the summer reproductive period, often sharing habitat with murres.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the grey seal breeds in several colonies on and around the coasts.
In the German Bight, colonies exist off the islands Sylt and Amrum and on Heligoland.
Also, there is a report by Farley Mowat of historic breeding colonies as far south as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Besides these very large colonies, many much smaller ones exist, some of which are well known as tourist attractions despite their small size.
Also grey seals are seen increasingly in New York and New Jersey waters, and it's expected that they will establish colonies further south.
As a way to amend this problem, the British began exporting large amounts of opium grown in the Indian colonies.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe.
The New England colonies were extremely similar in their dietary habits to those that many of them had brought from England.
In addition, colonists' close proximity to the ocean gave them a bounty of fresh fish to add to their diet, especially in the northern colonies.
Pork fat was used more often in the southern colonies than the northern colonies as the Spanish introduced pigs earlier to the South.
The uplands and the lowlands made up the two main parts of the southern colonies.
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Wheat was not an option for most of those who lived in the southern colonies.
Ballad opera, a popular theatre style at the time, was the first style of musical to be performed in the American colonies.
Polyp colonies form by strobilation, in which multiple polyps share a common stomach cavity.
Major Indian Ocean nesting colonies include India, Pakistan, and other coastal countries.
Most species nest in colonies, which can vary in size from a few dozen birds to millions.
In most seabird colonies, several different species will nest on the same colony, often exhibiting some niche separation.
Colonies also attract the attention of predators, principally other birds, and many species attend their colonies nocturnally to avoid predation.
Indirectly, fisheries have also benefited from guano from colonies of seabirds acting as fertilizer for the surrounding seas.
Other human factors have led to declines and even extinctions in seabird populations, colonies and species.
The area is home to huge colonies of gannets, puffins, skuas and other seabirds.
Many seabirds are little studied and poorly known, due to living far out to sea and breeding in isolated colonies.
The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids or whale lice.
Since the end of World War II, many former colonies in the Pacific have become independent states.
Greek Syracuse controlled much of Sicily, though there were a few Carthaginian colonies in the far west of the island.
The existing coastal cities were enlarged and embellished, and Roman colonies such as Turris Lybissonis and Feronia were founded.
France in February 1794 abolished slavery in its American colonies, but would reintroduce it later.
Also the Phoenicians established colonies on the coasts of Sardinia and Sicily.
Such contact has led to a new dialect of German concentrated in the German colonies in the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul.
A number of cities were founded along the coast by Phoenicians, and trading outposts and colonies were established by Greeks in the East.
Military assistance for the rebellious British colonies in the American War of Independence improved the kingdom's international standing.
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By the end of 1826, the only American colonies Spain held were Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Spain has a number of descendants of populations from former colonies, especially Latin America and North Africa.
The Carthaginians, Rome's adversary in the Punic Wars, were expelled from their coastal colonies.
This represented one of the largest movements of European populations to their colonies in the Americas during colonial times.
Portuguese law applied in the former colonies and territories and continues to be the major influence for those countries.
Unst is important for its seabird colonies, including those at Hermaness National Nature Reserve.
International recognition of Fowlsheugh has been established primarily due to the large and productive seabird colonies present.
The birds nest in large colonies Recently, they have started nesting on rooftops and buildings.
Within colonies, gull pairs are territorial, defending an area of varying size around the nesting site from others of their species.
The terns are birds of open habitats that typically breed in noisy colonies and lay their eggs on bare ground with little or no nest material.
Large tern species tend to form larger colonies, which in the case of the sooty tern can contain up to two million pairs.
Peruvian and Damara terns have small dispersed colonies and rely on the cryptic plumage of the eggs and young for protection.
Overfishing of small fish such as sand eels can lead to steep declines in the colonies relying on these prey items.
More generally, the loss or disruption to tern colonies caused by human activities has caused declines in many species.
Wealthy collectors made use of their contacts in the colonies to obtain specimens from around the world.
Lawrence region, sometimes in colonies of up to 7,000 to 8,000 individuals.
Before breeding, flamingo colonies split into breeding groups of about 15 to 50 birds.
However, several colonies are increasing in size and the colony at the Small Prespa Lake in Greece has nearly 1000 breeding pairs.
This has led to suggestions that pelican numbers should be controlled at vulnerable colonies.
Avian malaria is carried by the mosquito Culex pipens, and high densities of these biting insects may force pelican colonies to be abandoned.
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Unlike other European nations, the Dutch chose not to follow a policy of language expansion amongst the indigenous peoples of their colonies.
They were predominantly fought in the second half of the 17th century, mainly over trade and overseas colonies.
All of Germany's African colonies were invaded and occupied by Allied forces during the war.
Cameroon, German East Africa, and German Southwest Africa were German colonies in Africa.
These companies acquired overseas possessions that later became Dutch colonies.
In recent times, religious demographics in Amsterdam have been changed by immigration from former colonies.
The Greek and Etruscan civilizations and colonies began to influence the Gauls especially in the Mediterranean area.
The first naval action in defense of the new colonies was just ten years after Vasco da Gama's epochal landing in India.
Pitt was committed to despatching expeditions to French colonies around the world, a policy that had proved successful.
The Gorge's many caves are home to colonies of Greater and Lesser horseshoe bats.
During the 16th century, Bristol merchants concentrated on developing trade with Spain and its American colonies.
Growth of the city and trade came with the rise of England's American colonies in the 17th century.
In the Eurasian desert regions, foxes may use the burrows of wolves, porcupines and other large mammals, as well as those dug by gerbil colonies.
Brown rats usually live in small colonies with up to six females sharing a burrow and one male defending a territory around the burrow.
Outside the breeding season, prairie voles live in close proximity with others in small colonies.
The naked mole rat lives completely underground and can form colonies of up to 80 individuals.
The social structure of bats varies, with some leading solitary lives and others living in colonies of more than a million bats.
In many species, females give birth and raise their young in maternity colonies and individuals may assist others in their birthing process.
In areas with medium to high badger populations, dispersal from the natal group is uncommon, though badgers may temporarily visit other colonies.
This species breeds in colonies known as heronries, usually in high trees close to lakes, the seashore or other wetlands.
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In continental Europe, and elsewhere, nesting colonies sometimes include nests of the purple heron and other heron species.
Mycelia grown on solid agar media in laboratory petri dishes are usually referred to as colonies.
True multicellular organisms formed as cells within colonies became increasingly specialized.
European colonization also brought sizable groups of Asians, particularly from the Indian subcontinent, to British colonies.
This was the base from which the Spanish monarchy administered its new colonies and their expansion.
During this time, the European powers and later their colonies, began a political, economic, and cultural colonization of the rest of the world.
The expanding French and British colonies were contending for control of the western, or interior, territories.
The French gained major ground in West Africa, and the Portuguese held colonies in southern Africa.
When the Constitution of Australia came into force, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.
The Spanish crown found it difficult to enforce these laws in distant colonies.
Other birds include the southern giant petrel, with sizeable colonies on Bird Island.
The birds have colonies on Dassen Island, on the South African west coast, and Bird Island, on the south coast.
Continental North American settlements were small and did not develop into permanent colonies.
After the disappearance of the Norse colonies in Greenland, the Inuit had no contact with Europeans for at least a century.
England and France attempted to plant colonies in the Americas in the 16th century, but these failed.
England and France succeeded in establishing permanent colonies in the following century, along with the Dutch Republic.
Colonists often faced the threat of attacks from neighboring colonies, as well as from indigenous tribes and pirates.
English and Dutch colonies, on the other hand, tended to be more religiously diverse.
Waves of repression led to the migration of about 20,000 Puritans to New England between 1629 and 1642, where they founded multiple colonies.
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Geographic differences between the colonies played a large determinant in the types of political and economic systems that later developed.
The blunderbuss never gained great favor in the American colonies or early United States.
When the Shyr mutant was grown on this cloudly medium, there was a clear zone surrounding the colonies.
Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.
Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valour.
Especially since the 1950s, religions from the former British colonies have grown in numbers, due to immigration.
British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies.
After the war, the United Kingdom received the League of Nations mandate over a number of former German and Ottoman colonies.
Over the next three decades, most colonies of the British Empire gained their independence.
The coasts and surrounding islands are home to colonies of gannets, Manx shearwater, puffins, kittiwakes, shags and razorbills.
In their superior longships, they raided, traded, and established colonies and outposts on the sea's coasts.
Important overseas colonies, a vast merchant marine, powerful navy and large profits made the Dutch the main challengers to an ambitious England.
In some Dutch colonies there are major ethnic groups of Dutch ancestry descending from emigrated Dutch settlers.
In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France.
Prior to the establishment of the 1663 Sovereign Council, the territories of New France were developed as mercantile colonies.
In the meanwhile, the newly resumed war with Britain by the French, resulted in the British capture of practically all remaining French colonies.
The Emperor gradually conceived the idea that Algeria should be governed differently from other colonies.
By 1943, all of the colonies, except for Indochina under Japanese control, had joined the Free French cause.
The colonies were given local assemblies with only limited local power and budgets.
At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops.
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By the late 18th century, the British Empire had facilitated the spread of English through its colonies and geopolitical dominance.
Common law systems originated during the Middle Ages in England, and from there propagated to the colonies of the British Empire.
This split propagated to many of the colonies, including the United States.
The system was developed by the courts and spread with the expansion of British colonies in Southern Africa.
It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew and butterwort, two of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain.
The colonies were captive markets for British industry, and the goal was to enrich the mother country.
By the Quebec Act of 1774, the Province of Quebec was enlarged to include the western holdings of the American colonies.
It was planned by the government in London and designed as a replacement for the lost American colonies.
On other fronts, the British, French, Australians, and Japanese occupied Germany's colonies.
By 304 BC, the Romans had effectively annexed the greater degree of the Samnite territory, founding several colonies.
Rome quickly moved into southern Italia, subjugating and dividing the Greek colonies.
Roman law laid the foundations for the laws of many European countries and their colonies.
He had helped increase this number through the foundation of Roman colonies that were granted blanket citizenship.
These colonies were often made out of existing communities, especially those with elites who could rally the populace to the Roman cause.
Several colonies were placed in new provinces or on the border of the Empire to secure Roman holdings as quickly as possible.
The ancient Romans employed regular orthogonal structures on which they molded their colonies.
And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
When English colonists left for the New World, they brought royal charters that established the colonies.
Queens of socially parasitic inquiline ants reproduce by laying eggs in the colonies of other species.
Naval operations also enabled the conquest of the French colonies in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
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Britain blockaded the American colonies economically so the American public debt increased dramatically.
In 1931, following the fall of the monarchy, the African colonies became part of the Second Spanish Republic.
A condition of Raleigh's pardon was avoidance of any hostility against Spanish colonies or shipping.
The British Parliament's efforts to levy new taxes following the French and Indian War were deeply unpopular in the colonies.
Virginians began to coordinate their actions with other colonies in 1773, and sent delegates to the Continental Congress the following year.
His surrender on October 19, 1781 led to peace negotiations in Paris and secured the independence of the colonies.
Britain, which was at war with France, soon moved to occupy Dutch colonies in Asia, South Africa and the Caribbean.
All the colonies Britain had seized were returned to the Netherlands, with the exception of the Cape Colony and Guyana and Sri Lanka.
The Dutch West India company was abolished in 1791, and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state.
When the colonies died out around the 15th century, the dialect went with it.
England was stimulated to create its own colonies, with an emphasis on the West Indies rather than in North America.
Many of the Scottish prisoners of war taken in the campaigns died of disease, and others were sent as indentured labourers to the colonies.
This involved secret preparations for an attack on the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.
Food abundance does not appear to be a limiting factor as many ectoproct colonies are devoid of janolids.
Once the ship reached the New World, enslaved survivors were sold in the Caribbean or the American colonies.
This defeat in Africa led to all Italian colonies in Africa being captured.
In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in Southeast Asia were occupied by Imperial Japan.
After independence, many former British colonies joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states.
The Caribbean initially provided England's most important and lucrative colonies, but not before several attempts at colonisation failed.
In 1839, the New Zealand Company announced plans to buy large tracts of land and establish colonies in New Zealand.
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Responsible government was first granted to Nova Scotia in 1848, and was soon extended to the other British North American colonies.
Britain quickly invaded and occupied most of Germany's overseas colonies in Africa.
The colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire were distributed to the Allied powers as League of Nations mandates.
The demographics of Britain itself was changed after the Second World War owing to immigration to Britain from its former colonies.
Although the French Revolution had a dramatic impact in numerous areas of Europe, the French colonies felt a particular influence.
Instead he proposed that the prime minister, Lord North, make peace with the rebellious American colonies.
Losing the war and the thirteen colonies was a shock to the British system.
However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence.
Later that year, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 placed a limit upon the westward expansion of the American colonies.
In 1765, Grenville introduced the Stamp Act, which levied a stamp duty on every document in the British colonies in North America.
Britain had a sense of loss of control, as well as loss of markets, and was worried by Napoleon's possible threat to its overseas colonies.
The rest were necessary for garrisoning Ireland and the colonies, and providing security for Britain.
During the time of the Fifth Coalition, the Royal Navy won a succession of victories in the French colonies.
The Napoleonic wars also played a key role in the independence of the Latin American colonies from Spain and Portugal.
The brief peace in Europe allowed Napoleon to focus on the French colonies abroad.
The Law of 20 May officially restored the slave trade to the Caribbean colonies, not slavery itself.
In 1867 there was a union of three colonies with British North America which together formed the Canadian Confederation, a federal dominion.
In Western Africa, the colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria were involved in military actions against German forces from Togoland and Kamerun.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific.
The Great Depression, despite the concentration of its impact on the industrialized world, was also exceptionally damaging in the rural colonies.
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Following its surrender to the Allies in 1945, Japan was deprived of all its colonies.
After Italy's defeat in World War II, France and the UK occupied the former Italian colonies.
However power over the colonies remained concentrated in France, and the power of local assemblies outside France was extremely limited.
Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain.
Between 1717 and 1775 some 250,000 people from Ulster emigrated to the British North American colonies.
Previous slaves in Louisiana had been transported from French colonies in the West Indies.
After the Second World War, the vast majority of British colonies and territories became independent, effectively bringing the empire to an end.
Queen Anne's government had invited them, with the plan to settle Germans in the North American colonies.
Most are from former British colonies, such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Mauritius.
By the late 18th century, the British Empire had facilitated the spread of Modern English through its colonies and geopolitical dominance.
In the late 17th century many Huguenots fled to England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Switzerland, and the English and Dutch overseas colonies.
In 1638, Roger Williams established the first Baptist congregation in the North American colonies.
British and American missionaries reached out to India and some other imperial colonies.
It was on the voyage to the colonies that the Wesleys first came into contact with Moravian settlers.
The Church of England had been disestablished in the United States, where it had been the state church in most of the southern colonies.
Wesley influenced George Whitefield to journey to the colonies, spurring the transatlantic debate on slavery.
During World War II, Imperial Japan invaded most of the former western colonies.
Some true castles were built in the Americas by the Spanish and French colonies.
In the colonies new churches were certainly required, and generally repeated similar formulae.
Georgian architecture was widely disseminated in the English colonies during the Georgian era.
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Large pavilions were built for and by the colonies, that for Canada for instance replicating the Parliament in Ottawa.
Settlers exported Guy Fawkes Night to overseas colonies, including some in North America, where it was known as Pope Day.
Mumming spread from the British Isles to a number of former British colonies.
The English Pilgrims of the North American colonies brought the recipes across the ocean with them.
Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the British, Dutch, and Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Burke criticized British treatment of the American colonies, including through its taxation policies.
Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain.
In the American colonies, the Library Company of Philadelphia was started in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
As a result, colonies and dependencies are permitted to compete at Olympic Games.
We have already mentioned that some colonies eventually became metropoleis.
The Italian city states of Genoa and Venice flourished, creating profitable trading colonies in the eastern Mediterranean.
He also proposed the creation of a Mandate system for captured colonies of the Central Powers during the war.
The B mandates were applied to the former German colonies that the League took responsibility for after the First World War.
On steep mountainsides breed large colonies of auks, puffins, skuas, and kittiwakes.
Historically, most colonies were considered to be dependencies of their controlling state.
Crown dependencies are possessions of the British Crown, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies of the United Kingdom.
The islands acquired commercial and political interests in the North American colonies.
Some colonies became Commonwealth realms, retaining the British monarch as their own head of state.
From 1949, British subjects in the United Kingdom and the remaining colonies became citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies.
Independence Acts, passed when the remaining colonies were granted independence, contained nationality provisions.
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Exceptions were sometimes made in cases where the colonies did not become independent.
An upsurge in nationalism in Latin America in 1810s and 1820s sparked revolutions that cost Spain nearly all its colonies there.
The colonies set up temporary governments or juntas which were effectively independent from Spain.
Colonial officials promoted and subsidized gymnastics, table games, and dance and helped football spread to French colonies.
During the original treaty negotiations, the United States insisted that colonies like the Belgian Congo be excluded from the treaty.
Shipping to the colonies boomed simultaneously with the flood of skilled mariners after the war.
Spanish pieces of eight minted in Mexico or Seville were the standard trade currency in the American colonies.
These contracts allowed an income option to the inhabitants of these colonies that were not related to the Spanish conquistadores.
By the middle of the 18th century, Bermuda was sending twice as many privateers to sea as any of the continental colonies.
Bermudian trade with the rebellious American colonies actually carried on throughout the war.
Around 10,000 Bermudians emigrated in the years prior to American independence, mostly to the American colonies.
In 1777 the British sent a new army under John Burgoyne to move south from Canada and to isolate the New England colonies.
Giving up on the North, the British decided to salvage their former colonies in the South.
By far the most financially profitable West Indian colonies in 1800 belonged to the United Kingdom.
Spain acquired Britain's Florida colonies and the island of Minorca, but failed in its primary aim of recovering Gibraltar.
Parliament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765, which imposed direct taxes on the colonies for the first time.
Meanwhile, in September 1774 representatives of the other colonies convened the First Continental Congress in order to respond to the crisis.
This would safeguard the taxing rights of the colonies from future infringement while enabling them to contribute to maintenance of the empire.
The goal was to seize the Lake Champlain and Hudson River corridor, effectively isolating New England from the rest of the American colonies.
Moreover, they agreed that no troops would be placed in the colonies without their consent.

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