Why did the Belgians grant independence to a colony so manifestly unprepared to accept it??

One question much asked – both then and long afterward – is why did Emperor Menelik fail to follow up his victory and drive the routed Italians out of their colony?

In 1608 the Grand Duchy of Tuscany did an expedition to the area in order to create an Italian colony for the commerce of amazonian products to Renaissance Italy, but his sudden death stopped it.

Eggers, individuals who visited the nesting sites of the Great Auk to collect their eggs, quickly realized that the birds did not all lay their eggs on the same day, so they could make return visits to the same breeding colony.

The veterans did escape democracy and taxation in Britain, but they failed in their efforts to gain control of the colony.

Many in the colony however, began to chafe against the aristocratic Family Compact who governed while benefiting economically from the region's resources, and who did not allow elected bodies the power to effect change ( much as the Château Clique ruled Lower Canada ).

Prince Edward Island did not find the terms of union favourable and balked at joining in 1867, choosing to remain a colony of the United Kingdom.

In 1657 Stuyvesant, who did not tolerate full religious freedom in the colony, and especially the presence of Quakers, ordered the public torture of Robert Hodgson, a 23-year-old Quaker convert who had become an influential preacher.

Because the French government did not want to spend too much money on its colony it allowed for the establishment of the so-called Concessionary Companies, monopolies given a free hand to exploit the colony's resources except at a few strategic places, mainly around the Congo River.

It began as a colony of freed American slaves on March 11, 1792, Blacks voted for the first time in elections, as did women.

Paul Birch suggested a method of colonizing the gas giants that did not use buoyancy to support the colony in the atmosphere.

The steady growth of influence and prestige of the Federal League frightened the Portuguese government, which did not want the League's republicanism to spread to the adjoining Portuguese colony of Brazil.

The resolution passed unanimously, and was even supported by Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, the leader of the anti-independence faction in Congress, who believed that it did not apply to his colony.

Still, the divisions between the towns and powerful personalities did not bode well for the colony.

Cagliari continued to be regarded as the capital of the island under the Roman Empire, and though it did not become a colony, its inhabitants obtained the rights of Roman citizens.

The English conquered the New Netherland colony in 1664, but the situation did not really change until 1682, when the area was included in William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania.

Expansion along the Delaware River beyond Fort Nassau did not begin until the 1650s, after the takeover of the colony of New Sweden, which had been established at Fort Christina in 1638.

* Nova Scotia, site of abortive Scottish colony in 1629 ; British colony 1713, but this did not permanently include Cape Breton Island until 1758.

One of the principal differences between the two colonies was that the New Haven colony was an intolerant theocracy that did not permit other churches to be established, while the Connecticut colony permitted the establishment of other churches.

In 1884 Bismarck did so, thereby establishing German South West Africa as a colony ( Deutsch-Südwestafrika in German ).

The first economic focus of the colony was ivory, but this did not yield the expected levels of revenue.

During King Phillip's War later in the century the Martha's Vineyard band did not join their tribal relatives in the uprising and remained armed, a testimony to the good relations cultivated by the Mayhews as the leaders of the English colony.

The reason Black slaves did not quickly come to outnumber Whites was that Bermuda's 17th-century agricultural industry continued to rely on indentured servants, mostly from England, until 1684, thanks to it remaining a company colony.

The colony, a mere source of natural resources, would finally begin to develop as a nation.

The 16th century colony, which would develop into Brazil, was named Nova Lusitânia (" New Lusitania ").

Under certain conditions ( for example, if the colony becomes queenless ), a worker may develop ovaries.

The colony was disbanded and merged with neighbouring Nova Scotia as part of the British government's desire to develop the abundant coal fields surrounding Sydney Harbour ; the leases being held by the Duke of York.

Decades later, while there is still an abundance of land, this market remains because the colony itself has quotas to meet and debts to repay-they cannot spare the resources to develop local industries to make the machines themselves and free labour does not have to bid its price down enough to outcompete slave labour.

This in part allowed the colony to eventually develop into the heartland of Francophone culture in North America.

The eggs that hatch develop into female workers, and in time the queen populates the colony, with workers feeding the young and performing other duties similar to honey bee workers.

While the Norse colony in Greenland lasted for almost 500 years, the continental North American settlements were small and did not develop into permanent colonies.

The plan to develop the colony was to grant massive concessions to some thirty French companies.

The French government also later placed new administrative posts in the colony and began to develop it economically while introducing French culture and language to locals as part of an assimilation program.

In others, one polyp may develop as a large float, from which the other polyps hang down, allowing the colony to drift in open water instead of being anchored to a solid surface.

The region's rustic beauty helped Lenox develop into an art colony.

The concept of the railroad was officially recognized in 1880, when the president of Mexico, General Manuel González, granted a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen of the Utopia Socialist Colony of New Harmony, Indiana, USA, who was seeking to develop a socialist colony.

Workers came from throughout the colony and the world to help develop the new area.

An earlier grant to three Montgormery brothers was forfeited when they failed to establish a permanent colony, largely as a result of disease in the marshy area they chose to develop.

By this time, the leaders of the colony were desperate for labor to develop the land.

However, the envelopes were not popular, and in 1841 Raymond was unable to develop official interest in postage stamps for the colony.

In 1966, Freeport founded Freeport Indonesia, Inc. and negotiated a contract with the Indonesian government, which had taken over the former Dutch colony in 1963, to develop the Ertsberg deposit.

The commercial politics of raw inputs exporting to finance the colony and develop Africa governed the way what cities that should grow.

Governor Hunter wrote to the Duke of Portland in August 1796 complaining that the English settlers had arrived in the colony with high expectations and unfounded reports of government assistance without any real understanding of the level of work they would have to undertake to develop the land.

The colony began to import African slaves as laborers and to develop the labor-intensive rice, cotton and indigo plantations in the 1750s in the Low Country.

His goal was to develop a breeding program in the colony, and two stallions and 12 mares were sent in 1665.

Lemuel's son Francis Cushing formed the Cushing's Island Company in 1883 and hired Frederick Law Olmsted the same year to develop the island as a planned ' summer colony '.

The next day on 7 February 1819, Raffles appointed Farquhar as Singapore's first Resident to develop the colony according to a specific plan Raffles had drawn up, Farquhar was left to manage the colony when Raffles left ; an absence eventually lasting four years.