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  • Acadia and Fort Louisburg 1740–55

    Acadia and Fort Louisburg 1740–55

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    Acadia and Fort Louisburg 1740–55

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    The French established Acadia (Nova Scotia), along the shores of the St Lawrence River, in the 1600s, and it played an important role in the French and British fur trade. After 1713, the British took full control of Acadia and tension between the French and English settlers within the community... More
  • Africa c. 1830

    Africa c. 1830

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    Africa c. 1830

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    From 1808–34, the abolition movement progressively eliminated the slave trade with North America, but the Islamic Sokoto caliphate did its best to compensate. Founded in 1804 by a Sufist rebellion, this confederation of emirates became one of Africa’s largest polities and second only to the American South in its slave... More
  • Africa c. 1914

    Africa c. 1914

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    Africa c. 1914

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    After the ‘Scramble for Africa’, triggered by the Berlin Conference of 1884, over 90 per cent of Africa had been claimed by a colonial power by 1914. Of this land area, well over 90 per cent was assigned to what would become the Allied Powers. Of the Central Powers, Austria-Hungary... More
  • Africa c. 1947

    Africa c. 1947

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    Africa c. 1947

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    After World War II, the UN issued a declaration that all people had the right to self-governance and in 1945 created an agency to supervise the decolonization of dependent territories, some of which had been ceded by Italy after its defeat in World War II. In 1947, these territories were... More
  • Africa in 1600

    Africa in 1600

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    Africa in 1600

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    The Saadi dynasty of Morocco, would, in a decade, sound the death knell for two African empires. Their campaign (1590–91) destroyed the Songhay and annexed their lucrative trading networks; earlier the crushing of the ‘crusade’ of King Sebastian (1578) had led quickly to Portugal’s absorption by Spain. Moroccan control of... More
  • African Resistance to 1914

    African Resistance to 1914

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    African Resistance to 1914

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    In the ‘Scramble for Africa’, the native populations were largely seen as irrelevant; the real opposition was the rival colonial powers. Bristling with the armaments of the second Industrial Revolution, notably the Maxim machine gun, set-piece battles hugely favoured the colonialists, as at Omdurman (1898), when Kitchener crushed the Mahdist... More
  • American Colonies c. 1660

    American Colonies c. 1660

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    American Colonies c. 1660

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    Backed by royal mandate, the French made the most impressive early inroads into the North American continent. Quebec was founded in 1608, and Montreal in 1642, while the British and Dutch were still largely huddled along the Atlantic coastline. However, the natural resources of New England and Virginia would, after... More
  • Arabia and the Gulf c. 1900

    Arabia and the Gulf c. 1900

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    Arabia and the Gulf c. 1900

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    In 1900, the heart of the Arabian peninsula was nominally controlled by the Rashidi dynasty, who, in turn, were even more nominally controlled by the Ottoman Empire. The Rashidis had prevailed in a tribal power struggle with the rival Saudis, forcing them into exile in Kuwait (1891). The main areas... More
  • Australia Proposed Divisions 1838

    Australia Proposed Divisions 1838

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    Australia Proposed Divisions 1838

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    In 1835, Britain declared Australia terra nullius, ‘nobody’s land’, thus free for colonization without having to bother with irksome negotiation or treaties with its aboriginal inhabitants. The colonial government, established to control penal colonies, was autocratic, and the vast wilderness attracted ‘squatters’, free settlers, as well as freed and escaped... More
  • Australia Settlements 1829

    Australia Settlements 1829

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    Australia Settlements 1829

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    William Bligh, infamous for the mutiny on the Bounty, was appointed fourth Governor of New South Wales (1806): his singular management skills resulted in the only successful armed rebellion in Australian history, and his imprisonment by his own military. Bligh’s successor Lachlan Macquarie (governor 1810–21) restored order, and substantially achieved... More
  • Australia Settlements 1836

    Australia Settlements 1836

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    Australia Settlements 1836

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    Van Diemen’s Land became the penal colony of last resort in Australia, where the most hardened criminals and ex-convicts who re-offended were exiled. It also attracted wealthy free settlers, who clustered in the northwest, attracted by the fine sheep pasture and inexhaustible supply of free convict labour. The aboriginal population... More
  • Australia Settlements 1853

    Australia Settlements 1853

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    Australia Settlements 1853

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    Within days of Victoria’s proclamation as a separate colony on 1 July 1851, gold was discovered at Ballarat. With the subsequent rushes and economic boom, its population had outstripped that of the mother colony of New South Wales by the end of the decade. The previous year, the Australian Colonies... More