Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

The British Army suffered defeat in the American War of Independence, losing the Thirteen Colonies but holding on to Canada.

* Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica which focuses on the guerrilla war against the Cylons by the former citizens of the Twelve Colonies on New Caprica.

" James Witherspoon, president of Princeton, teacher of James Madison and later a member of the Continental Congress, and one of the most influential thinkers in the Colonies, joined the cause of the Revolution with a widely publicized sermon based on Psalm 76, identifying the American colonists with the people of Israel.

The first German Governor, Wilhelm Solf, later went on to become Secretary for the Colonies of Imperial Germany.

Colonies on the Moon, Mars, or asteroids could extract local materials.

The Thirteen Colonies were the colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 ( Virginia ) and 1733 ( Georgia ).

Giving up on the rebellious New England colonies, they decided to split the Thirteen Colonies and isolate New England from what the British believed to be the more loyal southern colonies.

Wheelock, Reflections, Moral and Political on Great Britain and Her Colonies, 1770

Colonies of Arthrobacter have a greenish metallic center on mineral salts pyridone broth incubated at.

Colonies are then developed, and screened with fluorescently – labelled oligonucleotide sequences that will hybridize to a microsatellite repeat, if present on the DNA segment.

* 1776-Thirteen Colonies declared independence as the United States of America on July 2 ; Declaration of Independence adopted on July 4

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies wrote back to Bligh, his instructions being received on 31 December 1807.

When the Colonies were first settled, " the lawyer was synonymous with the cringing Attorneys-General and Solicitors-General of the Crown and the arbitrary Justices of the King's Court, all bent on the conviction of those who opposed the King's prerogatives, and twisting the law to secure convictions.

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was allegedly signed on May 20, 1775 ; if the document is indeed genuine, Mecklenburg County was the first part of the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain.

Glynn County, one of the original eight counties in the state created on February 5, 1777, was named after John Glynn, a member of the British House of Commons who defended the cause of the American Colonies before the American Revolution. The Battle of Bloody Marsh was fought in Glynn County.

All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of our galaxy, a human civilization lives on a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol.

With the aid of a human named Baltar ( an inadvertent aid in the 2003 version ), the Cylons carry out a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them.

When demand increased they took apprentices into the shop and engaged peddlers to travel throughout the Colonies selling the shiny, useful articles ( the seal of the government of the Town of Berlin shows such a " Yankee peddler ", in eighteenth-century dress with a basket under his arm, a pack on his back full of tinware ).

But Rockingham, after finally acknowledging the independence of the former Thirteen Colonies, died unexpectedly on 1 July.

Many members of the family had enjoyed successful political careers based on reform, including to colonial policies ; Grey's grandfather, while prime minister, championed the Reform Act 1832 and in 1846, Grey's uncle, the third Earl Grey, as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the first ministry of the Earl Russell, was the first to suggest that colonies should be self-sustaining and governed for the benefit of their inhabitants, instead of for the benefit of the United Kingdom .< ref name = GG >

He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the British city of Liverpool, upon which some of the area's architecture is based.

The fruits of these researches were embodied in a historical work based upon his Conquerors of the New World, and called The Spanish Conquest in America, and its Relation to the History of Slavery and the Government of Colonies ( 4 vols, 1855, 1857-1861 ).

For example, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, none of the original Thirteen Colonies gave all citizens the right to vote, all attaching restrictions based on factors such as sex, race, age, and ownership of land.

By custom, it was applied in the original Thirteen Colonies that became the United States, and in many other land jurisdictions based on English common law.

The flag of the Twelve Colonies is the source on which all other Colonial flags are based.

Swami Kriyananda Giri, born James Donald Walters ( born May 19, 1926 ), is a direct disciple of the yogi Paramhansa Yogananda ( 1893 – 1952 ) and founder of Ananda, a worldwide movement of spiritual intentional communities based on Yogānanda's World Brotherhood Colonies ideal.

Colonies differed in their views on what was best, in particular New Zealand was concerned that part of the force ought permanently to be based at Auckland because of its distance from most of the others.

Slave ships based in northern ports frequently called at Bunce Island, taking on supplies like fresh water and provisions for the Atlantic crossing, and buying slaves for sale in the British islands of the West Indies and the Southern Colonies.

In general, a person born in what became the Republic of Ireland while it was still part of the United Kingdom before 6 December 1922 was not granted Citizenship of the UK & Colonies by the British Nationality Act 1948 unless such a person had a UK & Colonies born father ( based on 1949 frontiers ).

In Australia, the system of granting patents in the Australian Colonies is based upon British law, and can be traced back to the English Statute of Monopolies of 1623.

In the wake of the failed coup, during which most members of the Quorum of the Twelve are assassinated, Roslin appoints Councilman Lee Adama as Vice President and agrees to his suggestion of a reorganized Quorum based not on the original Twelve Colonies, but on representatives from each ship in the fleet, including the rebel Cylon basestar whose councilman, Sonja Six, she warmly congratulates on her election to the new Quorum and welcomes into the government.

He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the British city of Liverpool upon which some of the city's architecture is based.

In 1874 Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about federation in Canada in 1867, thought that a similar scheme might work in South Africa.

Both shows are similar in that the location of Earth is initially unknown, but clues to its location are gradually discovered by the refugee fleet from the Twelve Colonies.

About 30, 000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War ; nearly half were from the Hesse region of Germany ; the others came from similar small German states.

Several of an additional series of Ceres heads issued between 1872 and 1877 have a similar problem, and are distinguishable only by being imperforate, as was the Colonies part of the Peace and Commerce issue of 1877 to 1880.

Colonists in the Thirteen Colonies recognized the implications of the Act's provisions, and a coalition of merchants and artisans similar to that which had opposed the Stamp Act 1765 mobilized opposition to delivery and distribution of the tea.

The computer goes on to say that Redjac may have been responsible for other killings, both on Earth ( seven women in Shanghai, China, Earth, in 1932 ; five similar murders in Kiev, U. S. S. R., Earth, in 1974 ) and other planets ; there were eight murders of women in the Martian Colonies in 2105 and ten murders of women in Heliopolis, Alpha Eridani II in 2156.