Category: Portuguese colonial governors and administrators

Throughout the colonial period, large areas of Chad were never governed effectively: in the huge BET Prefecture, the handful of French military administrators usually left the people alone, and in central Chad, French rule was only slightly more substantive.

Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

The elected legislators were outmaneuvered on numerous occasions by planters allied with colonial administrators.

Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia write that attempts in the early 20th century by colonial administrators to halt FGM succeeded only in provoking local anger.

" In order to legitimize their own claims to power in the eyes of both the colonial administrators and their own people, native elites would essentially manufacture " traditional " claims to power, or ceremonies.

" British colonial administrators advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most " persistent " of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

Category: Dutch colonial governors and administrators

Category: Dutch colonial governors and administrators

Hence the long-standing desire of many colonial administrators to establish a unified structure became feasible.

Category: Portuguese colonial governors and administrators

The control of colonial administrators was largely restricted to the Dili area, and they had to rely on traditional tribal chieftains for control and influence.

To rebuild the economy, colonial administrators forced local chiefs to supply labourers which further damaged the agricultural sector.

Category: Spanish colonial governors and administrators

The late-18th-century quest for cheap, high-energy food sources for British slaves prompted colonial administrators and plantation owners to call for the introduction of this plant to the Caribbean.

Numerous suburbs surround the city, retaining the names colonial administrators gave them during the 19th century, such as Warren Park, Borrowdale, Mount Pleasant, Marlborough, Tynwald and Avondale.

It incorporates a number of other factual elements such as the European-like appearance of many Nuristani people, and an ending modelled on the return of the head of the explorer Adolf Schlagintweit to colonial administrators.

Agoli-agbo's symbols are a leg kicking a rock, a bow ( a symbol of the return to traditional weapons under the new rules established by the colonial administrators ), and a broom.

Category: Spanish colonial governors and administrators

Even before independence, French colonial administrators recognized that the Mouride brotherhood was well-respected among the Senegalese and partnered with them to promote political and social order.

This partnership between the Brotherhood and the government stems from the French colonial administrators, who had viewed the production of groundnuts by the Mourides as a means of economic advantage through the increasing production of crops for export.

The relationship with the colonial administrators of the British Solomon lsland Protectorate were also fraught with difficulty, at this time due to Goldie ’ s effective control over the Western Solomon Islands.

In Africa he was able to influence colonial administrators about education and wild-life conservation.

Category: French colonial governors and administrators

" British colonial administrators in China advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most prominent of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

Marx applied the modern versus traditional parallel to British colonial rule in India that Marx saw in positive terms as he claimed that British colonial rule was developing India, bringing India out of its " rural idiocy " of its " feudalism ".

The colonial governments were also used to operating independently of each other, and of the government in London, a situation that complicated negotiations with natives whose territories encompassed land claimed by multiple colonies, and, after the war began, with the British Army establishment when its leaders attempted to impose constraints and demands on the colonial administrations.

These competing colonial nations claimed the land and resources as their own and divided it into colonies.

Some reviewers claimed that the scene of the deliberate burning of a church filled with unarmed colonial civilians had no factual basis and no parallel in the American or European 18th century wars.

Javanese kings claimed to rule with divine authority and the Dutch helped them to preserve remnants of a Javanese aristocracy by confirming them as regents or district officials within the colonial administration.

During the colonial era various native groups claimed or settled in the area, resulting in a multi-ethnic mix that included Iroquois, Lenape, Shawnee, and Mingo.

The area was transferred from British colonial authority to the Dominion of Canada in 1894 and named after Sir John Franklin in the following year ; however, the northernmost islands were claimed by Norway until the year 1930.

Chairman Shu denied the visit should be seen as support for militarism, and claimed it was a goodwill gesture to Taiwan's former colonial master Japan to further strengthen the security of the Pacific region.

" Though declared a colony in 1920, the formal British colonial presence in Kenya began with a proclamation on 1 July 1895, in which Kenya was claimed as a British protectorate.

The separatist Somaliland administration, however, still claimed the territory as part of the original but colonial boundary of British Somaliland.

Territory claimed but never administered by the colonial government extended as far west as the Pacific Ocean.

Although it is sometimes falsely claimed, for instance in the " Holocaust Encyclopedia " p. 420, that Fischer's study of the Rehoboth Bastards provided context for later racial debates, influenced German colonial legislation and provided " scientific " support for the Nuremberg laws, it was in fact a work of legitimate physical anthropology, without any element of racialist ideology.

There remained the question of Peru, which also claimed sovereignty over the entire territory of Acre and part of the state of Amazonas, in light of colonial titles.

In 1774 the First Continental Congress passed their Declaration and Resolves, which inter alia claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.

Early in the conflict, both the British and colonial sides claimed his allegiance since he had such a visible position in the colony and played so many important roles.

The old Massachusetts colonial leadership, restored due to the rebellion and headed by ex-governor Simon Bradstreet, then summoned Governor Andros to surrender, for his own safety because of the mob which they claimed " whereof we were wholly ignorant ".

Finally, Portugal, which already had a long, but essentially abandoned colonial Empire in the area through the mostly defunct proxy state Kongo Empire, also claimed the area due to old treaties with its old proxy, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Roman Catholic Church.

The colonists claimed they killed 100 – 200 Native Americans in retaliation for earlier Indian attacks against Deerfield and other colonist settlements and the colonial losses in the Battle of Bloody Brook.

It claimed an internationalist ideology and saw the struggle of Puerto Rico as a part of the struggle for national liberation and against capitalism of the oppressed, colonial and neocolonial countries especially in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

* António Raposo Tavares, o Velho, ( Beja, Alentejo, Portugal, 1598-São Paulo, Brazil, 1658 ), a Portuguese colonial bandeirante who explored mainland eastern South America and claimed it for Portugal, extending the territory of the colony beyond the limits imposed by the treaty of Tordesillas.

The colonial American doctor John Mitchell took up a study of climate and race and wrote a book in 1744 called An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates in the book he claimed that the first race on earth had been a brown and reddish colour, he said " that an intermediate tawny colour found amongst Asiatics and Native Amerindians " had been the “ original complexion of mankind ” and that others races came about by the original race spending generations in different climates.