A new and correct map of the British colonies in North America comprehending eastern Canada with the Province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the government of Newfoundland : with the adjacent states of New England, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey...
Amana Colonies Type:intentional community Description:intentional community in Iowa, USA Category:human settlement Location:Eastern Iowa,Iowa,Midwest,United States,North America View on OpenStreetMap Latitude 41.791° or 41° 47' 28" north ...
American colonies, the 13 British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in the area that is now a part of the eastern United States. The colonies grew both geographically and numerically from the time of their founding t
in the 15th century was influenced by a Ptolemaic map, which showed the world as 30 percent smaller than it is and thus misled him into believing he had arrived inIndiawhen he landed on Hispaniola. As European countries started establishing colonies across newly claimed lands, each of them ...
Most of the Dutch people (as well as the Belgian Flemings and Walloons, French Huguenots, Scandinavians and Germans) who were living there stayed put. This made New York one of the most diverse and prosperous colonies in the New World. ...
These nations then claimed the land and resources as their own and divided it into colonies. After a series of battles fought, South American countries finally won their independence at the end of 1823 from the Spanish Crown in the Spanish American wars of independence. The important leaders dur...
A general map of the southern British colonies in America [electronic resource]: comprehending North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, with the neighboring Indian countriesBernard , ca. ca. Romans
History World Map of all Colonies Illustrating The Struggle for Colonial Dominion, 1700 - 1763 - British, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish possessions - Southern boundary of Russian Siberia Inset A: The West Indies 1700-1763 Inset B: Cook's Voyages in the Southern Pacific - First voyag...
The first European explorer to set foot in New Jersey was Henry Hudson in 1609, a Dutch navigator who explored the area for the Dutch East India Company. In 1664, the English gained control of New Netherland, renaming it New York and dividing it into two colonies: East Jersey and West ...
In 1664, the English captured New Amsterdam, renaming it New York in honor of the Duke of York. As tensions escalated between the American colonies and British rule, New York became a focal point of the struggle for independence. The Battle of Long Island (1776) was a pivotal moment, ...