pay for their protection against the French and help subsidise the costs of the Seven Years War. The American colonists, on the other hand, did not agree that they were vulnerable and believed they could protect themselves as they had done for the past one hundred years. So the British...
The impact of both wars has, of course, been the focus of much attention by American historians. British historians, too, express an interest in the American Revolution, but for the period following Britain's 'loss' of her North American colonies their interest in the United States tends to...
B. A small battle between the American and the British troops. C. Talks by General Scott and the British governor. D. A meeting of Griffin and Culter.相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 C [听力原文]By what was the dispute settled [解析] 细节题。原文中谈到最后由美国的将军Scott与英国的地方长官就...
Prior to the Revolutionary War and American independence from the British in 1776, American and British accents were similar. Both were rhotic i.e. speakers pronounced the letter R in hard. Since 1776, the accents diverged but English accent in America has changed less drastically than accents ...
This article analyses the languages of wartime pain as seen in British and American memoirs from the American Civil War to the present. How did the rhetoric of wounding in these war memoirs change over time? One of the central shifts lies in the way that wounded men presented themselves as ...
French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine-year war (1754–63) fought between France and Great Britain. It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America. Three earlier phases of the contest for overseas mastery include
Spanish-American War (1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The U.S. emerged from the war a world pow
In 1859, the British were in the majority on the island, and their presence was reinforced by the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which set up a sheep farm there. At the same time, 20 to 30 American colonists arrived on the island and took up residence there. ...
south Africa, the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one major war during this time, the war between Britain and France. All other battles were ancillary to this larger conflict, and were often at least partially related to its antagonist ' goals and strateg...
根据“Instead of reducing their prices to compete with the Dutch, the company asked the British government for help and the government agreed.”可知东印度公司是通过向英国政府寻求帮助,来停止亏损的。故选D。 (5)题详解: 主旨大意题。根据“It may be hard to believe, but the American Revolution ...