... the next section. The Plymouth Company was allotted the northern region of North America and was not to start a settlement less than a hundred miles away from any London Company settlement. The first band of colonists set out from England and was captured by the Spanish, undiscouraged the second ship with colonists aboard left England in 1607 and settled on the west bank of the Kennebec River in ... Maine.# That winter Popham died and a harsh winter set in that forced the would be colonists to return to England in ... In 1773, Lord North established a law called the India Bill also cal...

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... Jaarsveld were instructed to implement the establishment of the eastern border of the Colony (Greater Fish and Bushman's Rivers) by enforcing a relocation of all Xhosa chiefdoms living to the west of the Greater Fish River. Under the pretense of bringing them a gift of goodwill, he ordered his commando to attack the Xhosa who were unsuspecting and unarmed. They defeated the Xhosa, and took 6 000 head of cattle which they divided themselves and other border farmers who had ... homes were burned and crops destroyed, leaving hundreds of people homeless. The inhabitants of the Kat River Set...

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