How did the British colonies become so successful? Because the British colonized North America in much greater numbers than the Dutch and French, they proved to be more successful. As a result, the ...

This was literally true by the early 20th century when British colonies spanned the globe. After World War II, a victorious ...

Since we penned the article last week about Patents for the Colonies of Britain, we have received a letter from a correspondent, who states that the British Government has no right nor business to ...

It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

They praised it as emblem of the empire that should be made from the ingredients of Britain’s colonies and possessions: dried fruits from Australia and South Africa, cinnamon from Ceylon ...

The nationalist movements in Africa made it more difficult for the British government to keep power in Africa through its colonies after 1948. In Ghana there was a lot of unrest in the Accra riots ...

On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82.

The territory had become a British colony in 1858. United Province of Canada The colonies each had a separate government with locally elected representatives, although all were still subject to ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’ ...