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2. www.youtube.com › watchHow many years did Britain own America? - YouTube

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   From Jamestown to Independence: 1607-1776 • Jamestown to Independence • Discover the fascinating 170-year journey of British ownership in America, from the e...

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   How did the English Colonize America?The foundation of one of the most powerful countries in the world today. The history of the colonization of North Americ...

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   What do Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and wartime Britain all have in common? It was a pretty rough time to be an ordinary citizen. Tony Robinson explores the h...

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5. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesWhat was the British Empire? - BBC Bitesize

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   Britain formally recognised the United States of America as an independent country in 1783. After losing the 13 colonies Britain did not want its empire to shrink again, and decided to make it...

6. bigthink.com › strange-maps › four-folkwaysHow four British migrations defined America - Big Think

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   • The Exodus (1629-41) About 21,000 Puritans, migrating from East Anglia to New England. These religious fundamentalists believed in ‘ordered liberty’: everybody had the right to live by their own rules, and the duty to live according to God’s law.
   • Cavaliers and their Servants (1642-75) Some 45,000 Cavaliers drawn from English nobility and their indentured servants, migrating from the South of England to Virginia and the Lowland South.
   • The Friends’ Migration (1675-1725) Around 23,000 Quakers, migrating from Northern England to the Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania, and later to the Midwest.
   • The Flight from Northern Britain (1717-75) Some 250,000 ‘Borderers’, migrating from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands and Ulster to the Backcountry of Appalachia.

7. www.historyextra.com › period › victorianWhy Britain punched above its weight - HistoryExtra

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   Oct 31, 2019 · With the destruction of French seapower, Britain’s fleet was now spread around the globe at key strategic points from Gibraltar to Singapore. It was also the world’s main colonial power – paramount in India but also well entrenched in Australasia and Africa.

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   What is the relationship between Texas A&M and Great Britain?

   • From Winston Churchill to Kate Bush, a Texas A&M historian explores the close, complicated relationship between the United States and the country we celebrate our independence from today. Since winning its independence nearly 250 years ago, the United States has maintained an enduring cultural and economic connection with Great Britain.

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   • According to Bickham, who specializes in early American history and the history of the British empire, it’s largely a history of shared interests, values and language that created the close bond between the countries today.

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   Why do British and American people love each other so much?

   • Through it all, the British and American people maintain their strong cultural affinity, as popular music, books, movies and television shows from one nation are easily exported to the other. In fact, it was during the Cold War that “Running Up That Hill” was first released and found its way to American shores.

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   What made Britain a great country?

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   Where did the British Empire come from?

   • The British Empire had its origins in the late 1500s. on Roanoke Island, now part of the modern-day USA. The settlers had lost most of their supplies on the journey and struggled to find food when theirs ran out. They were at first reliant on local

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   Was Britain an artificial world power?

   • The growth of these rivals exposed the fact that Britain was, effectively, “an artificial world power”, to quote the German commentator Constantin Frantz in 1882, because its “territorial basis” was “just a European country” and its resources came from far-flung colonies connected to the home island only “through the threads of the fleet”.

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   Jul 1, 2022 · From Winston Churchill to Kate Bush, a Texas A&M historian explores the close, complicated relationship between the United States and the country we celebrate our independence from today.