To make up for the shortage of labor, the Company sent black slaves to New Amsterdam. ... The Company then created outposts in South America, which led to the Company's demise. ... In 1672, when Holland and England went to war, the Dutch soldiers retook New Amsterdam and renamed it Fort Orange. When the war was over, it was signed back over to the English because the Dutch did not want the land. ... During the 1750s, the Company built 3 great docks to help out the shipping industry. ...

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She talked of " weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways" but when Marlowe hinted to her that the Company was run for profit, she said, "you forget, dear Charlie, that the labourer is worthy of his hire." ... According to the essay read in class about the diamond wars and this charter, the destiny of Africa was controlled by Europe and even the United States in 1963, and is still controlled to some extent today. A good example of this is the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria whose lands were taken and exploited by American and Scandinavian oil companies. About two thirds of all the best lan...

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Yet at the moment that the glider parted company with the ground I experienced an inexplicable change. ... Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. ... He made another bad mistake in June 1941 by declaring war on Russia, until then his ally. ... Italy pushed the war into North Africa. ... The Allies had already won the war in the air at the cost of thousands of British and American lives. ...

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