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This colony was connected to St. Augustine, the capital of East Florida, via the Kings Road.
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I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, described him as `` a man whose spirit was stark drunk with blasphemies and insolence, a corrupter of the truth, a disturber of the peace wherever he comes ''.
Gorton appeared for her, however, and what he told the magistrates must have been plenty, for he was charged with deluding the court, fined, and told to leave the colony within fourteen days.
The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.
William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
Upon intelligence that the formidable agitator was to favor them with his presence, the benighted inhabitants of Pawtuxet, alas, gave their allegiance to Massachusetts and asked that colony to expel the newcomers.
As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.
These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.
The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.
Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.
The colony was administered from Brussels, with neither the Congolese nor the resident Belgians having any vote.
Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.
By this time, Angola, a Portuguese colony, was in fact like a colony of Brazil, paradoxically another Portuguese colony.
South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, near The Old Gum Tree in what is now the suburb of Glenelg North.
Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.
Adelaide was established as a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.
Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.
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The lands are not connected to France Antarctique, a former French colony in Brazil.
In the Viking colony of Iceland, an extraordinary vernacular literature blossomed in the twelfth to 14th centuries, and many traditions connected with the Viking Age were written down for the first time in the Icelandic sagas.
In the genus Rhabdopleura, zooids are permanently connected to the rest of the colony via a common stolon system.
Charlestown evolved as a major port and taxation center for the British colony as well as a point along the “ Old Post Road ” that connected the Town with larger urban areas such as Baltimore and Philadelphia.
For many years the colony was connected with Caracas by a river.
Another colony of Diggers connected to the Surrey and Wellingborough colony was set up in Iver, Buckinghamshire about from the Surrey Diggers colony at St George's Hill ( see Keith Thomas, ' Another Digger Broadside ' Past and Present No. 42, ( 1969 ) pp. 57 – 68 ).
Resources must be ' connected ' to a civilization's infrastructure ( via a road or railroad ) and must be within that civilization's cultural border to be utilized ; a resource outside of the cultural border can still be utilized by connecting a road to it and building a colony ( colonies are easily destroyed and are targeted by barbarians, so they must be defended ).
It was constructed between 1887 and 1932 by the Kingdom of Italy for the Italian colony of Eritrea, and connected the port of Massawa with Bishia near the Sudan border.
The hollow cavity in the middle of the polyp extends into the associated hydrocaulus, so that all the individuals of the colony are intimately connected.
The issue of translation is also connected to the fact that in 1904 the legal difference between settlement and colony was abolished in Prussia.
It was a very ancient city, and apparently of Sicanian origin, though the traditions concerning its foundation connected it with the Elymi and the supposed Trojan colony.
The Stresemann's Bushcrow nests either alone or in a small, loosely connected colony of three to five nests.
In 1926, the colony comprised 16 villages, with some 3, 000 Somali and 200 Italian inhabitants, and was connected by a 114 km new railway to Mogadishu.
In fact, the lamellar appearance is misleading since the individual lamellae within a colony are connected in three dimensions ; a single colony is therefore an interpenetrating bicrystal of ferrite and cementite.
Some writing found indicates the settlement is closely connected to the known Roman colony in modern day Zenica, away.
Its live animal exhibits include a hive of honeybees that is connected to the outdoors and a colony of leafcutter ants.
Until 1908 a steamer from Onehunga was the fastest means of travel from Auckland to Wellington, the capital of the colony ( initially the sea journey went all the way, then later it connected to the New Plymouth Express instead ).
Each " individual " with its sail is really a hydroid colony, with many polyps that feed on ocean plankton and are connected by a canal system that enables the colony to share whatever food is ingested by individual polyps.
The lake shore was also connected to the Greek colony of Cumae by an underground passage known as Cocceio's Cave ( Grotta di Cocceio ) which was long and wide enough to be used by chariots.
In some species, the individual zooids within the colony are connected by stolons.
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* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In addition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included Île St .- Jean ( today called Prince Edward Island ).
In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.
Charlottetown, the capital of the new colony of St. John's Island, was ransacked in 1775 with the provincial secretary kidnapped and the Great Seal stolen.
France established a colony at Port St. Louis, on East Falkland's Berkeley Sound coast in 1764.
None of these decrees were published or executed in St. Domingue, but, by midsummer, word began to reach the colony of the French intention to restore slavery.
In 1769, St. John's Island became a separate colony.
The British called their new colony St. John's Island ( also the Island of St. John's ).
It is from this date that St Helena claims to be Britain ’ s second oldest colony ( after Bermuda ).
Finding that the cape was not the ideal harbour they originally envisaged, the Dutch East India Company launched an armed invasion of St Helena from the Cape colony over Christmas 1672.
While the English were the first to lay claim to St. Vincent in 1627, the French would be the first European settlers on the island when they established their first colony at Barrouallie on the Leeward side of St. Vincent in 1719.
* September 7 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1625 ): A Spanish expedition led by Fadrique de Toledo wipes out the English colony on St. Kitts.
* August – The Diggers abandon their last major colony at St. George's Hill, Weybridge, England.
* August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1, 500 men, on 13 ships, arrives from Vera Cruz at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U. S. ( St. Augustine is founded in 1565.
The English, lead by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had claimed St. John's, Newfoundland in 1583 as the first North American English colony by royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I.
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony — New Brunswick — was created in 1784 ; followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada ( French Canada ) along the St. Lawrence River and Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital settled by 1796 in York, in present-day Toronto.
It served as capital of the French colony of Saint-Christophe, which consisted of the northern and southern extremities of the island of St. Kitts ( the centre was yielded to Britain ).
Following the withdrawal of Bridgetown, Barbados, in the mid 1880s, St. George's went on to become the replacement capital of the former colony of the British Windward Islands.
Smaller cities are usually home to at least one gallery, but they may also be found in towns or villages, and remote areas where artists congregate, e. g. the Taos art colony and St Ives, Cornwall.
The colony was built where the Cap Rouge river runs into the St. Lawrence River and is based on the discovery of burnt wooden timber remains that have been dated to the mid-16th century, and a fragment of a decorative Istoriato plate manufactured in Faenza, Italy, between 1540 and 1550, that could only have belonged to a member of the French aristocracy in the colony.
As a result, when Sir Francis Drake put in at Roanoke after attacking the Spanish colony of St. Augustine, the entire population abandoned the colony and returned with Drake to England.
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