Germany and France had territories in South-West Africa and Madagascar. ... Over the course of the about fifty years Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers, the ancestors of the Afrikaner of Boer people, arrived at the Cape and found a colony whose economy was based on cereal farming, viticulture and stock-raising. ...
A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses,...
("Savages" is a controversial term that derives from the French word sauvage meaning wild, and is now wholly derogatory in English. ... Leaders of France and Great Britain wanted to avoid another war that would engulf all of Europe, so they introduced a nonintervention pact that was signed by twenty-seven nations. ...
John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... In addition to the Americans fighting in the continental army, France and Spain sent troops to fight against the British. ...
John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... In addition to the Americans fighting in the continental army, France and Spain sent troops to fight against the British. ...
