... St. George (later Madras). In 1661 they picked up another site when, for a paltry annual rent of 10, King Charles II handed over a barren island called Bombay, which had been part of his dowry from Catherine of Braganza. A generation later, after some skirmishes, the company gained permission to set up ... for preeminence throughout the raj. The company was in control of much of India; now it had to decide whether to treat the place as treasure chest, military base, branch office or incipient independent nation. As the British set about "improving" India, for better and for worse, they ...

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... but turned out to be Central America, was to gain land for Spain. It took quite a bit of sweet talking from Columbus to get the money and ships needed for this voyage from Spain's Queen Isabella. But in the end, Columbus had the chance to reach a goal brought on by greed; to gain ... riches. Queen Isabella had the same motive. She wanted land for Spain, and that is the only reason that she ever gave him the money and ships to make his voyage. The English, like other countries, voyaged to the Americas in search of riches. It wasn't until they got there that they ... produced rice and in...

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... , and Labuan, became British colonies with the help of the Straits Settlement and the East India Company. The first permanent British settlement on the African continent was established on James Island, in the Gambia River, in 1661. Following it, Britain acquired the Cape of Good Hope, which is now in South Africa, in 1806. With this, the South Africa's interior was ... necessary raw materials for England, and were granted ownership for their products, like tobacco and sugar. In return, they were expected to conduct all their trade by means of English ships and to serve as markets for th...

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... . The British did make some apologies and restitution for the Chesapeake-Leopard incident, but continued to claim the right to seize American ships and inspect them for deserters. A Economic Losses Although impressments aroused the most resentment, the United States also suffered serious financial losses ... at a British port. Neither power had sufficient naval forces to close every major harbor, so the blockades were mainly used to capture ships belonging to neutrals like the United States that were rather weak militarily. Together, these warring nations seize! d nearly 1500 American ve...

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Launched at the River Clyde in June 16, 1906, RMS Lusitania was a grand ship and the first of the two sister ships to be launched. At 785 feet in length and 31,550 gross tons, she took the title of largest liner afloat. Her maiden voyage took place September 7, 1907, and in ... with a parlour, bathroom, and private dining area, for which they paid four thousand dollars one way. Second-class accommodations on Lusitania compared favourably with first-class staterooms on many other ships. The day before Lusitania sailed from Pier 54, U-20, skippered by thirty-two-year-old Kapitãnleutnant (Lt. ...

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... make soup (TFI). Between 1845 and 1850, over 1 million Irish starved to death, 500,000 were evicted and 500,000 emigrated to America, Britain, or Australia on rotting, overcrowded "Coffin Ships" (VOG). A passage to America on a Coffin Ship was approximately $10, but there was no guarantee that you would actually arrive there, considering how many died on those ... ships (LFI). A Coffin Ship was the most popular method of emigration, however it was not equally effective. The passengers were cramped, had minimal food and were given a tight living quarters meaning ... ...

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... Act, reducing the tax on tea in an attempt to rescue the English East India Company from bankruptcy. The colonists refused to buy English tea and would not allow British ships to unload it in Philadelphia and New York City. "On the evening of December 16 1773, Bostonians disguised as Indians raided British ... ships docked in Boston Harbor and dumped their cargoes of tea overboard. This so-called Boston Tea Party enraged King George, Lord North, and the king's other ministers. They wanted the ... ...

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... of the French fleet. While the French admirals spent most of their time pursuing regarding the West Indies, at the crucial point, where their help was absolutely necessary, the French ships stood off the coast of Virginia and prevented Cornwallis" escape. In the war between the American Colonies and the British, the Americans were fighting to keep they traditional way of ... ...

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... . All rivals have to be removed ruthlessly. It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. A courtcase of John Peter Zenger in 1773 who was publishing a journal which criticized the policies of the Colonial Governor of New York was arrested for seditious libel. The case was won which meant first signal victory for freedom of the press ... ...

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... Britain was punishing them for their love of tea. To protest the Tea Act, colonists boycotted British tea, men that worked on docks would not let British East India Company ships touch the dock, and the Sons of Liberty threw the Boston Tea Party. The British government infringing on the rights and philosophies of their North American colonies caused the American ... ...

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... kingdoms east India Company was the chief source of tea for the colonies. The colonies chose there chance and dressed up as Native Americans they boarded one of the company's ships in Boston and threw the tea overboard. This was an attempt to rebel against the tea act but George III saw it differently. He saw it as an attack on ... ...

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... a few countries, especially in the 1950s and 1960s at the height of the research reactor 'boom', although the precise quantities and destinations have not been published. An article in the journal Atom reported that the UK had recovered more than 1.7 tonnes of HEU from thermal research reactor fuel (domestic and foreign) through reprocessing at Dounreay, although it did not reveal the ... ...

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... Parliament passed the Tea Act, that taxed the tea bought by colonists. Colonists had been smuggling in tea from Holland for cheap and didn't like this. The colonists sent the ships with the tea back home with the tea in hand, stating that they didn't want their tea. But in Boston, the governor would not let the ship sail back to ... ...

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... English had neither. So in 1660 and 1663, the Navigation Acts were introduced. Under the Navigation Acts, England banned all trade with the colonies except in colonial or English built ships. The acts also required that certain colonial products and imported European goods be taken to England first. This created a middleman in England who received enormous profits from the trade. Other ... ...

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... and resentful towards the British. All of the colonists" anger came out on the night of December, 16, 1773 when colonial activists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and climbed aboard ships filled with tea in the Boston Harbor. They dumped all of the tea into the water. This is known as the Boston Tea Party. When another Act was passed in ... ...

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... . All rivals have to be removed ruthlessly. It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. A courtcase of John Peter Zenger in 1773 who was publishing a journal which criticized the policies of the Colonial Governor of New York was arrested for seditious libel. The case was won which meant first signal victory for freedom of the press ... ...

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... allegiance was to be a significant contributing factor to the divisions that caused the civil war. The second major issue in the Treaty that caused divisions was the partition of the island into North and South with the north-eastern six counties remaining part of the United Kingdom. In the eyes of the British government partition had already been established in the ... ...

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... and while he ruled, Toussaint showed uncommon mercy and restraint. From the Haitian Revolution's beginning in a Voodoo ceremony in Bois Caman, where slaves swore to kill all whites on the island, it was more a rebellion against the white oppressors than for ideals like "liberté, egalité, fraternité."" After L'Ouverture's capture, his successor systematically mudered Frenchmen. Compared to the Haitian ... ...

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... change in Transvaal suddenly becoming an important prosperous state, at the same time weakened the British imperial hold over the Republic. This led to the Jameson Raid, where in 1895, Dr Jameson led about 600 men, which according to historians such as Lain R Smith were financed by Cecil Rhodes, and attempted to have an Utilander rebellion in Johannesburg. However, this failed ... ...

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... the legislatures because they represented the hovering transatlantic authority of England. Proprietors administrating Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania chose the governors there. Lastly, governors were elected democratically in Connecticut and Rhode Island because they were allowed to govern themselves. By this time, two-house legislative bodies were being used by almost every colony. The lower house was elected by voters and the ... ...

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... more concerned with poring money into their own governments and recuperation, rather then into the governments and infrastructures of its territories (Morgan, 116.) Without the financial support of the main Island, many lands became uneasy, demanding they be able to govern themselves. But the UK was now in desperate need of raw materials, but didn't have the dollars to pay for ... ...

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