... The Great War for Empire. During the Battle of Saratoga in October of 1777, the Americans won a great victory over General John Burgoyne. This victory caught the attention of the French foreign minister Comte de Vergennes, According to America: A Concise history, when news of the rebel victory at Saratoga reached Paris in December 1777, Vergennes sought a formal alliance (Henretta ... 170). The American diplomats including Benjamin Franklin quickly took advantage of the animosity between France and Great Britain; securing an alliance with the French in The Treaty of Alliance of February...

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... on their steps, and by the influence of them, other revolutions had been fought. They are: The Glorious Revolution, The American Revolution, and The French Revolution. But when we look at these three in History, By studying them we can find lots of similarities and correspondences. As these three shakeups ... is another similarity we could find. But as I said earlier there was a big difference in The Glorious Revolution. Unlike both American and French Revolution, there wasn't a revolutionary war, instead it was a big change in the form of government. There wasn't any blood shed. As a ma...

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... had to be shipped on vessels constructed by English shipbuilders and that at least three-quarters of the ships' crews had to be English. Sometimes such regulations backfired. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) in North America, the British Parliament sought to increase revenues to pay the costs of defending the American colonies. It used the Navigation Acts to ... revolution had many causes. Long-term social, economic, and political changes in the colonies before 1750 provided the basis for an independent nation with representative political institutions. More immediately, the...

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... retaliated and forced Washington to surrender Fort Necessity. In 1758, William Pitt was sent to try and do something in the war against the French. By the end of 1758, Pitt had dramatically turned the tables of the war. In September 1759, British and American forces attacked Quebec and fought for five days. The British ... the Delaware with his troops in a surprise attack on the British in Trenton. The surprise attack worked and it was the first victory for the Americans. On January 7, 1778, the French royal council declared unanimously in favor of a treaty of amity and commerce with t...

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... British considered America to be their sovereign state and it is this attitude that the British had throughout the bitter fighting that took place in the French and Indian war. They believed it was their sovereign right to control and tax this country. The Americans on the other hand had other ideas. ... the Americans that their liberties were no longer safe within the British Empire."(The growth of the American republic vol II p139) As a consequence of the French and Indian war the British realised that the Americans might wish to become free. A British army would have to be stationed o...

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... invaded Cairo, and within 48 hours, Egypt fell, leaving the land open to Napoleon's goals of establishing trade in raw materials and manufactured French goods in the Middle East. With this, over a century of foreign rule, control, and influence by European powers in the Nile River ... Valley begins. While the economically driven goals of French occupation in Egypt were the primary objective, Napoleon continued to stress European cultural and social civility in the region and showed intolerance for his ... without any formal governmental or administrative bodies other than the loosely or...

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... views and values of their new British authorities. The growing number of Protestant church and schools is in a steady growth as an effort to massively convert the majority of the French population. This procedure will facilitate the abolishment of the Roman Catholicism amongst the population. The ambitious conversion imposed by the civil government is a hard goal to achieve. The government ... simply cannot apply enough pressure to the entire French population to abandon their original culture and religion and to expect them to embrace a whole new one. James Murray started to question th...

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... (1756-1763), Great Britain obtained territorial gains at the expense of France. With The Treaty of Paris (1763), France recognized British dominion over Canada, but the British returned to the French the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Afterwards, the American Revolution came. The British Parliament introduced new taxes in order to be able to maintain and preserve its North American colonies ... death of the emperor Aurangzeb, India entered a period of instability. Thus, the East India Company entered in politics to preserve the dominant economic position. After a series of battles ...

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... and a hunger for a quick killing. The threat that most unsettled the English, however, came from the French, who in the 1750s were engaged in a global war with Britain. In 1746, the French boldly seized Madras and in 1750 their Governor, Joseph Francois Dupleix, ingeniously set about hiring and training native ... smart uniforms and transformed into soldiers, these men became the envy of local princes, who were soon turning over tracts of land in exchange for French-trained sepoys. In this way France came to control a large part of southern India. The British cause seemed doomed--until ...

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... Western coast of Africa and the "New World" provided. France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. This figure only rose as the decades passed and Frances total figure stands at around 1,250,0009 ... the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of t...

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... . One such man, William Pitt, was a man that went beyond what was considered proper. He achieved a great victory for the British in the French and Indian War, among many other great feats. Although nothing he did was perfect in any way, everything he accomplished had a tremendous impact on both ... the government, and he was then dismissed from office. In 1756, Marquis de Montcalm was appointed the commander of the French troops in America. Montcalm changed tactics for the French and shifted procedures entirely, with some help from their Indian alliances. At the time, the Duke of Newcast...

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... could have done on a number of occasions. The British generals did not seem to be taking the war seriously. Finally, the Americans could not have won without help of the French, especially 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 ... ...

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... before long, Jefferson learned that Spain had ceded the vast province of Louisiana back to France. Going so far as to suggest to the French that the United States might be willing to join them in overturning Toussaint L"Ouverture, Jefferson promptly shifted his course. New Orleans was so ... connected to American interests that if the French gained control of that port, "we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." When the news that the Spanish had suspended ... Jefferson's determination was given emphasis when he instructed the American negotiators in Paris to open discu...

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... government now held at the end of George II reign. Regardless of Britain's attempts to protect the colonies against the oppressive French, the disappointment at the colonist's unenthusiastic behaviour greatly escalated the cracks in their relationship. Continued smuggling with the French boosted their enemy with vital supplies. In particular Pennsylvanian ships clearly defied trade laws participating in the transhipment from British to ... French Vessels in a number of main ports therefore unnecessarily prolonging the war. The colonial militia was also despondent as their lack of qualit...

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... no means independent. The colonies relied on the assistance of trade with other countries. The colonists also needed British protection. Without the British they could not defend themselves from the French in Canada. Between 1650 and 1750 British Parliament passed laws that regulated the colonists" trade, and were in the best interest of the British Empire. Britain's goal was to tighten ... in England and no more. The colonists could not expect to take part in the benefits of their country without giving something in return. The French and Indian War had freed the Colonists from the dan...

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... The main causes were political, economic and military issues. In the years 1754-1763 a war between France and Britain arose in the Americas. The French and Indian War, also known as the "Seven-Year War, was fought to decide which of Britain or France would become the stronger power in North ... America, each side relying on its colonists and Indian allies to fight. Although the British had won the war, the end of the French and Indian War however had resulted in large debt that the British Parliament decided would be repaid by a raise in taxes on the colonies, ... . These military inci...

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... changes. There were many fundamental reasons for the American Revolution where most of the revolts against the British empire were due to the political difficulties they had been facing. The French and Indian War also known, as the Seven Years War in Europe was a huge conflict between England and France and their Indian allies. Although Britain had won the war, King ... control over its rather autonomous colonies. There were several reasons for this, one being that the Indians still posed a threat to the British government and the other being that the French and Indian War which lasted ...

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... Jersey taking weapons and ammunition. American troops defeated combined forces of the British at Saratoga, New York. A turning point in the war, this victory strengthened American morals and convinced the French to send military aid and supplies to the Americans. During the bitter Winter of 1777-1778 American soldiers faced starvation and disease at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. However, they also received ... Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress in 1781. They united the new states and organized a central government. The British troops were trapped at Yorktow...

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... were only loosely enforced to regulate commerce in the British interest. This all changed abruptly in 1763. The Treaty of Paris removed a long-standing threat to the colonies (from the French) while at the same time Great Britain, under George Grenville undertook a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over the colonies and to make them effectively pay for their ... over America was slowly lifting. In October 1780 a crowd of frontiersmen defeated a British force at Kings Mt and this set the stage for the Yorktown Campaign. The combination of the French recognition of...

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... empire: Canada and India. Even the Seven Years" War left Britain dominant in Canada. That is why today there can still be found many French speaking places, like Ontario and so on. Robert Clive's military victories against the French and the rulers of Bengal, in the 1750's, provided the British with a massive increase of territory and ensured their future supremacy in India ... Zealand became officially a British colony in 1840. Partly owing to pressure from missionaries, British control was extended to Fiji, Tonga, Papua, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. When the French complete...

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... and their successes had pushed them a way ahead from being the British "possesion". The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. It had a great impact on the British Empire. Firstly, it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World. But the cost of the war ... regulars (paid for by taxes gathered from the colonies; most importantly the "Sugar Act" and the "Stamp Act"). This infuriated the Americans who, after having been held back by the French, now saw themselves stopped by the British in thei...

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India's modern history begins in the 14th century when European nations began to flex their imperialistic muscles in the Middle East and Asia. The Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English were all competing for their own part of India. Everything began with the East India Company, which was established by the British in 1600 to challenge the ... . Merchants of the East India Company never imagined that British presence in the subcontinent could mean anything more than peaceful trading. The French arrived in the middle of the 17th century, signalling the beginning of militarization. Within 100 y...

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... and the colonists turned to smuggling. During the 1750's, colonists wanted to expand and start settling in the Ohio Valley, which was occupied by the French. This caused the Seven Years War between the British and French. The outcome of this war had a huge impact on the colonies and their relationship with Great Britain. First of all, the Treaty of Paris of ... Stamp Act crisis, the British parliament was still looking for a way to pay for its troops in the colonies because Britain was still in debt from the war with the French. So parliament issued the Townshend Acts, which put a luxur...

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... over these colonials, whose population was rapidly increasing. They were rather far away from Cape Colony and already developing their own language, the Afrikaans. When the Low Countries became a satellite French state, the British troops attacked the colony, which was definitely incorporated to the British Empire in 1814. The colonial authorities appealed to British citizens and tried to turn the Boers ... was sent to replace Buller as commander- in- chief; however, the latter continued to fight during the war. A month later, Roberts sent the British commander John French northwards to...

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... and their successes had pushed them a way ahead from being the British "possesion". The American war for independence can be dated back to times of the British victory in the French and Indian War. It had a great impact on the British Empire. Firstly, it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World. But the cost of the war ... regulars (paid for by taxes gathered from the colonies; most importantly the "Sugar Act" and the "Stamp Act"). This infuriated the Americans who, after having been held back by the French, now saw themselves stopped by the British in thei...

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