After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30, 000 United Empire Loyalists ( American Tories ), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses.

As the demand for labor in the West Indies grew with the cultivation of sugar cane, Europeans enslaved Native Americans for the Thirteen Colonies, and some were exported to the " sugar islands.

Originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee or governing body in Great Britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies ( originally Virginia in 1608 ); in full, the " President of the Council.

By the end of 1765, all of the Thirteen Colonies except Georgia and North Carolina had sent some sort of protest passed by colonial legislative assemblies.

His brother's appointment as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in Sir Robert Peel's administration may have opened some doors.

Colonies are usually located near the coast, but some species nest far inland and even at high altitudes ( such as the Barau's Petrel ).

The territory under the jurisdiction of the Thirteen Colonies at the time of independence did not adopt the PLSS, with the exception of the area that became the Northwest Territory and some of the Southern states.

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.

He was Secretary for War and the Colonies until Liverpool resigned in April 1827 ; and deserves some credit for improving the conduct of the Peninsular War, while it was his duty to defend the government concerning its treatment of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Up until the American Revolutionary War, some convicts from the United Kingdom were transported to the American Colonies and served out their time as indentured servants before receiving an official pardon.

Family records of Johann Nicholas Bahner ( t ), one of the Hessians captured in the Battle of Trenton, indicate that some of the Hessian soldiers enrolled in the service of King George III of England believing that they were needed to defend the American Colonies against Indian incursions.

The loss of some of the American Colonies in the American War of Independence was regarded as a national disaster and was seen by some foreign observers as heralding the end of Britain as a great power.

Nevertheless, New France was territorially larger than the Thirteen Colonies, and there was friction along some of the borders.

After the Stamp Act in 1765, some of his sermons began to be issued as pamphlets, most notably An Humble Enquiry Into the Nature of the Dependency of the American Colonies upon the Parliament of Great-Britain and the Right of Parliament to Lay Taxes on the said Colonies.

* January-Thomas Spring Rice, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies writes " If coming events should constrain the British Legislature to interpose its supreme authority to appease the internal dissensions of the Colony, it would then, indeed, become my duty to submit for the consideration of Parliament, some modifications of the charters of the Canadas, not however, for introducing institutions inconsistent with monarchy, but to preserve and cement their connection with the Mother Country, adhering ever to the spirit of the British Constitution, and confining within their legitimate bounds the rights and privileges of His Majesty's subjects.

Colonies such as Pennsylvania and Virginia claimed some of the westward lands by their original charters.

In Canada, British since 1763, the Quebec Act of 1774 ended some restrictions on Catholics, so much so that it was criticized in the Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.

Colonies nesting near streams may have some advantage, as the stream provides water for drinking and bathing.

Shortly after the American Revolution, the Crown made land grants to some of the earliest United Empire Loyalists to encourage their settlements in Ontario and provide compensation for property lost in the Thirteen Colonies.

The Stamp Act Congress, or First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America ; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.

" Colonies are typically groups of men who have recruited and educated their first few pledge classes and who are still in the process of proving they are capable of sustaining an active chapter.

As a result, the Outer Colonies are almost entirely populated by men and women from the working class and lower classes, who had few other prospects.

The North Borneo Federation, also known as Kalimantan Utara or North Kalimantan was a proposed political entity which would have comprised the British Colonies of Sarawak, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and the protectorate of Brunei.

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

Colonies are situated several hundred metres apart and have little to do with each other, although young individuals may disperse between colonies.

It may have been named after Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, who resigned his commission as general in the British army in 1775, refusing to serve in the war against the Colonies.

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.

The Twelve Colonies have warred for decades with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race.

During the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin twice encamped there traveling to and from Canada as an emissary of the Continental Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to have Canada join the Colonies in the revolution.

Colonies of over a million birds have been recorded, both in the tropics ( such as Kiritimati in the Pacific ) and in the polar latitudes ( as in Antarctica ).

Colonies are usually situated on islands, cliffs or headlands which land mammals have difficulty accessing.

The Court's taxation decisions thus " reflected a central concern of the Framers that was an immediate reason for calling the Constitutional Convention: the conviction that in order to succeed, the new Union would have to avoid the tendencies toward economic Balkanization that had plagued relations among the Colonies and later among the States under the Articles of Confederation.

" The fact is ," wrote Sir Michael Hicks Beach, who would replace Carnarvon as Secretary of State for the Colonies, in November 1878, " that matters in Eastern Europe and India ... were so serious an aspect that we cannot have a Zulu war in addition to other greater and too possible troubles.

That the Colonies have no Representatives in Parliament.

Although Burgoyne at the time was widely held to blame for the defeat, historians have over the years shifted responsibility for the disaster at Saratoga to Lord Germain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Macleod, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1959 to 1961, was, like Butler, on the liberal wing of the Conservative party ; he was convinced, as Home was not, that Britain's colonies in Africa should have majority rule and independence as quickly as possible.

The United States is effectively guaranteed control of any land it is able to gain possession of in North America, besides the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon which France had retained possession of after the Seven Years War, and of the Islands of Bermuda due to King Louis XVI of France, renouncing " for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well as of any part of the continent of North america which before the treaty of Paris in 1763. or in virtue of that Treaty, were acknowledged to belong to the Crown of Great Britain, or to the United States heretofore called British Colonies, or which are at this Time or have lately been under the Power of The King and Crown of Great Britain.

To Cornwallis, he wrote in May: " Had you intimated the probability of your intention, I should certainly have endeavoured to stop you, as I did then as well as now consider such a move likely to be dangerous to our interests in the Southern Colonies.

Colonies can be extremely large and dense ; 840, 000 pairs of White-faced Storm Petrel nest on South East Island in the Chatham Islands in burrow densities of between 1. 18-0. 47 burrows / m² ; densities as high as 8 pairs / m² for Band-rumped Storm Petrels in the Galapagos and colonies 3. 6 million strong for Leach's Storm Petrel have been recorded.

On March 25, 1777 General Howe and his brother Lord Howe wrote to Lord George Germain ( Secretary of State for the Colonies ) in England " My Lord, We have the honor to enclose to your Lordship a state of the Declarations subscribed in consequence of our Proclamation of the 30th of November.

For as much as all the endeavors of the United Colonies, by the most decent representations and petitions to the king and parliament of Great Britain to restore peace and security to America under the British government and a re-union with that people upon just and liberal terms instead of a redress of grievances, have produced from an imperious and vindictive administration increased insult oppression and a vigorous attempt to effect our total destruction.

The show takes place in " Future Century ", where Space Colonies have agreed that rather than having war to decide who controls everyone a fighting tournament is held every four years between the space colonies to decide the right to rule instead.

His work, Political Annals of the present United Colonies from their Settlement to the Peace of 1763, ( 1780 ), was to have formed two volumes ; but the second, which should have contained the period between 1688 and 1763, never appeared.