France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of the overseas trade for the nation.... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars b...

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When the war was finally brought to an end, the French Colonial Empire had ceded Quebec, the former New France, to Britain; so the British Empire finally established its hegemony in North America. ... An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent seemed predictable because the habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. ... They assumed that the French populace, suffering under the British rule, would doubtless join the struggle for freedom, but they ...

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This decree stated that Great Britain was placed under French blockade; not by sea, but by all France and French-controlled land. ... The British responded in kind by issuing an order on May 16, 1806 that sealed off the French coasts from oceangoing traffic and seized French shipping. ... At the beginning of his reign, Napoleon was heralded as a hero to France because he removed the Directory and brought an end to the Revolution. ... Most citizens had been fighting since the French Revolution and they grew tired of it. ... It demoralized his army and his citizens in France, plus it showed the ...

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One of the biggest differences between Britain and France was the degree of self-government. In French colonies they allowed properly trained Africans to assume subordinate posts, and in special circumstances become French citizens. ... Britain outlawed slavery in all of their territories in 1833, and France did the same in 1848. ... France viewed Algeria as part of France and fought a bitter war to retain it then Charles De Gaulle came to power and negotiated a settlement for Algeria's independence in 1962. ... The French had to struggle with in cooperation of Africans into a new republ...

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The revolution, the movement didn't come in one day, or by one chance, it was growing inside the people and atlast it bursted out in a way unpredictable. ... According to Abdul Aziz he started a revolution like "jehad" for muslims, that rising up against the british is like Jehad for the muslims and they should stand up against it. This revolution of Abdul Aziz inspired one portion of Indian muslims. ... After them their brother, Yahya Ali started leading the movement, Moulavi Farhad Ali and Ahmudullah helped him in conducting this revolution. ... He began his speech with an a...

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The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The matters of France, its overseas territories, and associated states and territories, which was the new concept for Indochina (simply because they underestimated the ongoing insurgency to French imperialism), were mostly now part of metropolitan France. ... The French control was assured through the President of France being the President of the Union, and a significant French representation in the Supreme Council and the Assembly of the Union. Pe...

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France seemed confused, but was ready to support Russian intervention against Austria-Hungary. Britain, pressured both by France and Russia, was undecided until it officially announced its military support to them. ... France and Russia had their own pact. Adding to these treaties, aiming for a Balance of Power, where the secret ententes between England and France, and England and Russia. ... In Britain, France and Italy, "liberalism [ ] was heavily besieged" whereas Russia had labor problems to deal with. ...

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Britain realized that a strong naval force could counter the benefits received by Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands from their overseas colonial trade, and energies needed directing towards developing strategic naval bases. ...

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Years United Kingdom Germany France U.S.A 1890 3,579 2,195 670 4,275 1896 4,133 4,745 1,160 5,282 1900 4,901 6,260 1,540 10,188 Steel Production (In thousands of tons) (3) The table graphically illustrates that although Britain was overtaken by her main competitors, she was still increasing her production of steel during these years. ...

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While Walcott opposes colonialism and would therefore seem to be sympathetic to a revolution with an anticolonial cause, he has passionate reservations about Mau Mau: they are, or are reported to be, extremely violent - to animals, whites, and Kikuyu perceived as traitors to the Mau Mau cause. ... ("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...

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