The Company then created outposts in South America, which led to the Company's demise. ... The Dutch would become a small minority and when a regime change happened in the British government, Jacob Leisler, took advantage of the situation and a rebellion ensued. ... There have been a number of changes in NYC during the 1700s. ... Since the water was awful to drink, a plan to build a waterworks plant, using a steam-powered pump, had begun in 1774, but construction halted for the Revolution. ... Many newcomers during this period made the money that they expected to earn. ...

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It was rather their duty to spread to other nations those advantages which through the course of the centuries they had won for themselves." ... Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire meant an arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably discharged but deliberately wound up meaning there was absolutely no shame in the loss of the British Empire, rather they felt they had proudly come to a deserved end, passing on sovereignty to their "loyal" subjects.Darwin, arguably blaming the decline ...

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