... Lexington marked the first blood spilled in the war of the American Independence. These two important instances of bloodshed seved to evoke the spirit of American patriotism all over the colonies. The Second Continental Congress met on May 10 1775 and Gerorge Washington was elected commandor of the patriotic forces. He and his army fought for the defence of American liberty ... had beeen introduced into North America in early colonial times. Although the American Revolution validated the idea that all men were created equal, slavery was legal in all the thirteen colonies throughout the ...

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... , in the early 20th century, Europe dominated the world in economic, military, political and cultural domains. However, Germany was now unified and did not have any significant colonies. Germany was consequently interested in French colonies. On it side, France did not digest its defeat of 1870 against Germany and the lost of the Alsace-Lorraine. Europe was consequently living in an intermediary ... , Trianon, Neuilly and Sevres. Those four treatises dealt with the other Central Powers countries: Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. Those treatises were designed to settle the post-war e...

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... powers the world has ever seen. This is very much depicted in today's English commonwealth, which includes over 150 countries. The colonization of the original 13 colonies of modern day USA influenced the creation of the most technologically advanced, economically fueled, and politically savvy superpowers in history. Not only did England fuel the ... 20th century had the chance to bring the United States involvement. In the latter portion of the 20th century a group of English colonies in the New World felt that they were being taxed unfairly. Their mother nation was across an ocean had ...

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... and British military and naval power enormous by comparison.[i] Foreign aid obtained by the colonists was extremely important in their victory. In 1776 France extended a secret loan to the colonies and supplied them with gunpowder. These loans of gunpowder were extremely important in enabling the patriots to defeat Britain in the Battle of Saratoga. In February 1778 France and America ... .[ix] He was a big stabilising force and from his militia experience, was excellent at managing an army and keeping it together. As a Southerner, Washington was also vital in bringing southern support i...

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... rest of the countries and actually have the capital to invest in technological research. For example, England was able to follow a path of development because of the emergence of overseas colonies which it recklessly exploited and reserved a major portion of their economic surplus. Also, they invested in the education of their country which led to scientific discoveries and resulted in the ... industrial revolution as they used their natural resources (e.g. coal reserves). Another factor was that they took cheap goods from the colonies they ruled and sold it for a high price, thus again...

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... temperatures. These conifers are mainly spruce and fir trees in areas with high precipitation such as the Vosges, the Jura and the northern Alps. But in dry areas like the Southern Alps, larches, which lose their needle-like leaves in winter, make up most of the forest cover. Despite their large surface area, French forests yield only 33 million m3 ... immigrants, including an estimated 4 million foreigners--mainly Portuguese, Spanish, and Italians--and many French citizens, a large number of them Arabs, who entered France in the 1960s from former French colonies in Algeria and sub-Saha...

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