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- Jamestown Colony, first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century.
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British America, known as English America before 1707, comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783. [1]
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When the Kingdom of England began its efforts to settle in North America in the late 16th century, it ignored Spain's long-asserted claim of sovereignty over the entire continent (Spain's similar claim to all of South America had been refuted when the Pope had divided the continent between it and Portugal in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas). Spain's...
Following the 1776 declaration of independence of the colonies that were to form the United States (which was to be recognised by the British Government in 1783), the areas that remained under British sovereignty were administered by the Home Office, which had been formed on 27 March 1782, and which also controlled the military until this was trans...
Besides the local colonial governments in each colony, British North America was administered directly via London. Other than the territory administered by the Honourable East India Company and protectorates, from 1783 through 1801, the British Empire, including British North America (but not including the territory administered by the Hudson's Bay...
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Sep 22, 2024 · Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Financed and organized by the Virginia Company, the colony was originally a private venture that had been granted a royal charter by King James I.
Jun 17, 2010 · The 13 colonies founded along the Eastern seaboard in the 17th and 18th centuries weren't the first colonial outposts on the American continent, but they are the ones where colonists...
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...
