• Instead, it was much more practical and cost-efficient to just raid the immense gold and silver brought back by the Spanish from their colonies in Latin America . (worldatlas.com)
  • The Anglo-American settlers' violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded the boundaries of the thirteen colonies into unceded Native territories. (monthlyreview.org)
  • To the settlers' dismay, soon after the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, King George III issued a proclamation prohibiting British settlement west of the Allegheny-Appalachian mountain chain, ordering those who had settled there to relinquish their claims and return to the kingdom's thirteen colonies. (monthlyreview.org)
  • By the beginning of the 1700s, nearly 300,000 British subjects inhabited the continent's east coast, and the original Thirteen Colonies that would later go on to form the United States were established. (worldatlas.com)
  • Only then did epidemics sweep through the remaining Indian populations, finishing the extermination the Europeans had begun intentionally. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia , northern North America , and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands . (wikipedia.org)
  • The program of expansion and the wars against Native American civilization and the agricultural societies of the vast valley of the Ohio River and the Great Lakes region began before the Declaration with the French and Indian War of 1754-63, which was the North American extension of the Seven Years' War between France and Britain in Europe. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Settlers arriving in North America brought the same trembling fears and wars on wildlife with them. (wolfsongalaska.org)
  • In the course of that war, Anglo-American settlers intensified their use of counterinsurgent violence, which the Anglo settler elite dubbed "savage wars," against Indigenous peoples' resistance to their incursions into the territories of the Ottawa, Miami, Kickapoo, and the confederations identified with Pontiac's leadership of the Great Lakes region, spreading to the Illinois and Ohio countries. (monthlyreview.org)
  • By the end of the war, significant numbers of Anglo settlers had taken Indigenous lands beyond the colonies' boundaries, and land speculation was a road to riches for a fortunate few. (monthlyreview.org)
  • These Iroquois were thus the first Native Americans to build more comfortable and secure buildings than their tents' rallies. (fileane.com)
  • The near-erasure of Native Americans in Massachusetts and, soon thereafter, from most of the remainder of the northern English colonial seaboard was the true mission of the Pilgrim enterprise - Act One of the American Dream. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Das ist ein Vortrag über die Ureinwohner Amerikas, die Indianer (Native Americans) für das Fach Englisch. (hausaufgabenweb.de)
  • Geopolitically, the West Indies are usually reckoned as a subregion of North America and are organised into 28 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments, and dependencies. (solarnavigator.net)
  • Spain also ceded to Britain territories that became the colonies of East Florida and West Florida, comprising the present-day U.S. state of Florida and parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. (loc.gov)
  • The plague of hatred swept westward across the continent, paralleling the rise in popularity of folk stories about the big bad wolf, wolves in sheep's clothing, and Little Red Riding Hood's poor ol' grandma supposedly getting her ass eaten by a wolf in one big ("what a big mouth you have! (wolfsongalaska.org)
  • The Declaration of Independence of 1776 symbolizes the beginning of the "Indian Wars" and "westward movement" that continued across the continent for another century of unrelenting U.S. wars of conquest. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The book describes the mainland and island possessions of Britain, France, and Spain, with a few pages devoted to the colonies of the Dutch and the Danes. (loc.gov)
  • The Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Prescott asserts that "Peru" was unknown to the Indians, and that the name was given by the Spaniards . (newadvent.org)
  • and from the acts of the soldiers themselves (Prescott, "Conquest of Peru", II, iii) The first news of the existence of the great Empire of the Incas reached the Spaniards in the year 1511, when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa , the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, was engaged in an expedition against some Indian tribes in the interior of Darien. (newadvent.org)
  • When the persistent commander finally reached the country in 1532, the vast Inca empire is said to have extended over more than one-half of the entire South American continent. (newadvent.org)
  • European contact with North America, with its vast forests and wildlife, particularly the beaver, led to the continent becoming a major supplier in the 17th century of fur pelts for the fur felt hat and fur trimming and garment trades of Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • That was the goal of independence, with both the seasoned Indian killers of the Revolutionary Army and white settler-rangers/militias using extreme violence against Indigenous noncombatants with the goal of total domination. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A republic on the west coast of South America, founded in 1821 after the war of independence, having been a Spanish colony. (newadvent.org)
  • Bounties were issued for the scalps of dead wolves and Indians (because Indian people were considered a form of wolves and not actually human). (wolfsongalaska.org)
  • It is difficult to comprehend the magnitude of the atrocities intentional, neglectful, or accidental perpetuated on Indian people by the conquering culture, and later by the very government that assumed responsibility for their protection. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Either way, the 115 people that made up the colony were never seen again. (worldatlas.com)
  • Novgorodians expanded farther east and north, coming into contact with the Pechora people of the Pechora River valley and the Yugra people residing near the Urals . (wikipedia.org)
  • The West Indian cricket team includes the South American nation of Guyana, the only former British colony on that continent. (solarnavigator.net)
  • The iconic colonial protest slogan "taxation without representation is tyranny" marked the surge of rebellion against British control, but it did not tell the whole story, considering what the tax was for: to pay the cost of housing, feeding, and transporting soldiers to contain and suppress the colonies from expanding further into Indian territory. (monthlyreview.org)
  • It was a remarkable transformation, and in no field can its workings be observed more clearly, and in such illuminating detail, than in the British North American colonies which were eventually to confederate. (electricscotland.com)
  • With considerable holdings in every continent on Earth, the old saying the "sun never set on the British Empire" was truer than ever. (worldatlas.com)
  • British colonial efforts were not just relegated to what is today mainland America. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Confederation of 1867 united politically four British colonies in North America-Ontario and Quebec (then known as Upper Canada and Lower Canada, from their positions on the St. Lawrence River), and the two Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. (americanheritage.com)
  • Let it suffice to say for the moment that the principal achievement of the Confederation of 1867 was to create a political framework which would permit the French Fact and the British Fact in North America-the one a leftover from the Seven Years' War, the other from the American Revolution -to live together and prosper economically. (americanheritage.com)
  • In a letter to England, Massachusetts Bay colony founder John Winthrop wrote, "But for the natives in these parts, God hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them are swept away by smallpox which still continues among them. (blackagendareport.com)
  • the eastern half of the continent was "ethnically cleansed" of Native nations by 1850, through forced relocation to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In the New England colonies, Cotton Mather quaked about "the waste and howling wilderness. (wolfsongalaska.org)
  • They had to know him over a limited number of years in a life that lasted from 1706 to 1790 in three different places: America, England, and France. (franklinpapers.org)
  • In the North American English colonies, the pattern was set early as Columbus had set it in the islands of the Bahamas. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Not able to enslave the Indians, and not able to live with them, the English decided to exterminate them. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • This demand was difficult to meet, since Scotland, with no colonies of her own, was precluded from trade with the flourishing English colonies in North America and the West Indies. (electricscotland.com)
  • The English first tried their hand at permanent settlement in 1587 at Roanoke in what is today North Carolina . (worldatlas.com)
  • This settlement suffered greatly in its infancy and would have surely been destroyed if not for the assistance of friendly Native American tribes. (worldatlas.com)
  • At one part of the island he got into a fight with Indians who refused to trade as many bows and arrows as he and his men wanted. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Besides the priests that Pizarro was required to take in his own vessels, the succeeding ships brought additional numbers of missionaries, who devoted themselves earnestly and disinterestedly to the task of spreading the religion of Christ among the Indians. (newadvent.org)
  • The West Indies in contrast to the East Indies in southeastern Asia consist of the Antilles, divided into the larger Greater Antilles which bound the sea on the north and the Lesser Antilles on the south and east (including the Leeward Antilles), and the Bahamas which are northeast of the sea. (solarnavigator.net)
  • Bermuda lies much further to the north in the Atlantic Ocean and is sometimes included in the West Indies. (solarnavigator.net)
  • Chunks of poisoned meat were scattered indiscriminately across the American West, setting off waves of death in the food chain and killing millions of animals and birds. (wolfsongalaska.org)
  • There are few more striking examples of its applicability than the way in which the Scottish society, in increasing flux from the early eighteenth century onwards, provided a class of men of enterprise that played a role, entirely out of proportion to its small numbers, in the promotion of mercantile and industrial concerns not only in Scotland, but also in North America, the West Indies, and the East. (electricscotland.com)
  • As the book explains, as a consequence of the war and the ensuing Treaty of Paris (1763), the French "have no longer any settlement on the Continent of the West-Indies, and their possessions are reduced to the West part of the Island of St. Domingo [present-day Haiti], the Island of Guadeloupe with the adjacent isles, the Island of Martinico [Martinique], and the Island of St. Lucia. (loc.gov)
  • Map has title: A new and correct map of the American Islands, now called the West Indies, with the whole coast of the neighbouring continent. (loc.gov)
  • Peru's territory lies between 1°29' North and 19°12'30" South latitude, and 61°54'45" and 81°18'39" West longitude. (newadvent.org)
  • The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Jamaica was one of the most profitable colonies in the world at the time. (worldatlas.com)
  • this fungus grew in culture as a dark grey-to-black-colored furlike colony. (medscape.com)
  • At the same time, the 6,000,000-odd American tourists who annually cross the border are usually so struck by Canadian resemblances to their own country that they wonder why Canada is not part of the American union. (americanheritage.com)
  • By 1930, new cases had been described outside the American continent in France, Sumatra, and Poland. (medscape.com)
  • In light of this carefully nurtured fable, whatever happened to the Indians, from Plymouth to California and beyond, in the aftermath of the 1621 dinner must be considered a mistake, the result of misunderstandings - at worst, a series of lamentable tragedies. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The result was the American Civil War. (famousamericans.net)
  • It is reserved by history and the intent of "the founders" as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. (blackagendareport.com)
  • As Professor S.G. Lythe has shown, marketing was difficult, with demand constantly fluctuating on the continent. (electricscotland.com)
  • These colonies were an easily available laboratory for early Scottish mercantile experimentation, and the specific character of Scottish enterprise is clearly revealed in its colonial application. (electricscotland.com)
  • Fur traders in Canada, trading with Indians (1777). (worldatlas.com)
  • Editors in the United States have more than once suggested to me that Canada is bad literary material because few Americans are seriously interested in her. (americanheritage.com)
  • The firms that sell them to Canadians are American companies with branch plants in Canada. (americanheritage.com)
  • And as Canada is the best customer of the United States and has been her most loyal friend, it is evidently to the interest of Americans, so many of whom have heavily invested in the country, to examine their relations with their northern neighbor in greater detail than they have hitherto done. (americanheritage.com)
  • James Paris Lee, ex-pat Canadian turned American, designed the piece in the late 1870's. (chuckhawks.com)
  • Later he may tune his bedroom TV set to his favorite American program, since the chances are it will be carried by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (americanheritage.com)
  • The murder of a white trader, Indian-kidnaper, and troublemaker became an excuse to make war on the Pequots in 1636. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Their conduct towards them was in marked contrast to that of the conquerers, whose thirst for gold was never satiated, and who having ransacked the villages and stripped the temples of their gold and silver ornaments, had enslaved the Indians, forcing them to work in the mines for their benefit. (newadvent.org)
  • Wolves will never be Fifi the poodle, and certainly they have the capacity to take humans as prey, but to date there hasn't been a single recorded case of a healthy wild wolf killing a person in North America. (wolfsongalaska.org)