The British Commonwealth of Nations consists of the United Kingdom, the Dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ceylon), the Colonies and Protectorates, and the Territories under Trusteeship.
The theme here is that there was a schism between the fi rst and second British empires, not in itself an original thought, as the paper makes clear. The fi rst empire, as conceived by many historians, was an Atlantic empire governed by the British monarch and the Westminster legislature ...
We,therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in GeneralCongress, Assembled, appealingto the Supreme Judge of the worldfor the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and byAuthority of the good Peo...
During the mid-19th century, the British government consolidated the existing colonies by bringing them under the direct control of the government. By the end of the 19th century, the British Empire included about a quarter of the global population and a quarter of the world’s landmass. Before...
For example, Robert Gordon and Duncan Campbell each had Scottish names, yet both were long-term residents of England and the money they received in compensation for enslaved Jamaicans freed by the British government flowed to them and their and their descendants in England rather than Scotland.[...
It served as a springboard (跳板) for the British colonists to expand their colonies and sphere of influence in Asia. In East Asia, the British government waged the Opium War (鸦片战争) against China and forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, whereby Hong Kong ...
Mathew reported on a court-martial involving a corps member serving in Grenada. Though Black residents of British colonies in the Caribbean were typically governed byslave codesdesigned to subjugate them and support white supremacy, the British Army refused to...
“endowed by their Creatorwith certainunalienable Rights,that among these areLife, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes ...
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It began by the dissolution of the British Government in the Colonies; the People of which were, by that operation, left without any Government whatever.John Quincy Adams,“Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de la Fayette.”Delivered at the request of both Houses of the ...