Within a few months, some settlers died of famine and disease.

In 1835, Methodist Episcopal settlers established Albion College, which was known by a few other names before 1861 when the college was fully authorized to confer four-year degrees on both men and women.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

A few Indo-Grenadians and a small community of the descendants of early European settlers reside in Grenada.

They are concentrated in Arran, Bute and Kintyre and it is likely that the Clyde cairns were the earliest forms of Neolithic monument constructed by incoming settlers although few of the 100 or so examples have been given a radiocarbon dating.

Because there were few Catholic priests in the French Antilles, many of the earliest French settlers were Huguenots who sought greater religious freedom than what they could experience in mainland France.

A few dozen free settlers settled on the west coast in the following years.

The island has a small population of a few thousand inhabitants, mainly descended from Africans, Mixed race African and Europeans, British settlers, East India Company employees and indentured labourers from the South Asian sub-Continent, East Indies, Madagascar and China.

These diseases killed off a large proportion of their population within a few decades of the arrival of Sutter and the following settlers, the start of the gold rush, not to mention the numerous battles fought between the settlers and native bands as well as the forced relocation of some of the tribes to Indian reservations in several places scattered around the Sacramento Valley, mainly in the Coast Ranges.

Although a few towns with New York land titles, notably Brattleboro on the Connecticut River, supported the change, the vast majority of the settlers in the sparsely populated frontier region rejected the authority of New York.

Canada had very few potential settlers who were willing to move over 2, 500 miles to the Pacific Northwest, although several hundred ex-trappers, British and American, and their families did start settling in Oregon, Washington and California.

While there were almost no United States settlers in the future state of Washington in 1846, the United States had already demonstrated it could induce thousands of settlers to go to the Oregon Territory, and it would be only a short time before they would vastly outnumber the few hundred Hudson's Bay Company employees and retirees living in Washington.

The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

Blundells Cottage | Blundells Cottage, built around 1860, is one of the few remaining buildings built by the first European settlers of Canberra.

La Salle's explorations gave France a claim to the Mississippi River Valley, where fur trappers and a few settlers set up scattered settlements.

The community was established by English settlers under William Sayle in 1670 on the west bank of the Ashley River, a few miles northwest of the present city.

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

A number of settlers sought land over the next few years, but Governor Darling turned down all requests.

The Spanish sent some settlers, creating the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States at St. Augustine, Florida in 1565, but it attracted few permanent settlers.

But unlike the dispute of Somerset's southern border, there were few settlers in the frontier on either side to take issue.

Fort Myers, built in 1850 as a military fort to fend off Seminole Indians that were massacring the area ’ s few settlers, was named after Col. Abraham C. Myers, who was stationed in Florida for seven years and was the son-in-law of the fort ’ s establisher and commander.

He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.

The Union Pacific Railroad streamliner, City of San Francisco, stopped in Ogden, Utah, for a few minutes.

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.

Because of their relatively large mass, + 2 electric charge and relatively low velocity, alpha particles are very likely to interact with other atoms and lose their energy, so their forward motion is effectively stopped within a few centimeters of air.

A few days later they stopped a vessel sailing from Madeira to Charleston, South Carolina.

Sales became scarce and marketing stopped after a few years.

Marlow began to screech the steam whistle repeatedly ; " the shower of arrows stopped, a few dropping shots rang out sharply — then silence "-A pilgrim in " pink pyjamas " arrives at the pilot-house, and is shocked to see the dying helmsman.

Beta radiation from radioactive decay can be stopped with a few centimeters of plastic or a few millimeters of metal.

He drew the strip until 2011, when he stopped to concentrate on Dennis and Gnasher, though Trevor Metcalfe drew a few strips in 2003 and 2004, and there have also been some Robert Nixon reprints during 2005 and 2006.

He was given several opportunities to score near the goal line, but New England stopped him every time before he reached the end zone ( such as his 2-yard loss from the New England 3-yard line a few plays before Butler's second field goal, and his 2-yard run from the 4-yard line right before McMahon's first rushing touchdown ).

Although the beta particles given off by different radioactive materials vary in energy, most beta particles can be stopped by a few millimeters of aluminium.

They never captured the key town of Bastogne and were forced to bypass it, and although they got within a few miles of the Meuse River, their advance was stopped by the 8th and 104th Infantry Divisions, and the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.

After shooting a few hundred rounds Maxim's apparatus became erratic then stopped altogether.

Light Canadian and British artillery bombardments continued throughout the prior night but stopped in the few minutes before the attack, as the artillery recalibrated their guns in preparation for the synchronized barrage.

This is one of the few occasions on which the anti-religious fervour was stopped by the townfolk.

As a result, work on the line was stopped for a few months and did not resume until Charles Yerkes and UERL stepped in and took over the project.

With a new city cemetery built elsewhere, the old cemetery stopped accepting new burials in about 1883 ( save for very few exceptions ) and fell into disrepair until the 1940s, when the city began to restore and preserve the graveyard.

By 1926, overfishing from gillnetting had left the bay depleted of salmon, so commercial harvesting was stopped and fishermen switched to surf-launched dories ; over time due to commercial fishing vessels, the Dory Fleet dwindled and today only a few recreational fishermen keep the tradition alive.

The city council stopped holding meetings in 1861 ; by the end of the war the town had almost disappeared, and only a few people lived there.

Most American roll companies stopped offering large classical catalogs before 1920, and abandoned ‘ instrumental ' rolls ( those without words ) within a few years.

As of 2012, this target looks unlikely to be met ; over the last few years the number of people suffering from hunger has stopped falling, rising sharply in 2007 and 2008.

For a few weeks, the two singles appeared destined to battle each other, but demand for the Kingsmen single acquired momentum and, by the end of 1963, Columbia Records had stopped promoting the Raiders ' " Louie Louie ", as ordered by Mitch Miller.

JVC had difficulty making the products successful, and a few years later stopped making them.