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1 day ago · From the beginning of April 1900, the British garrison in the vicinity of Warrenton – Fourteen Streams received reinforcements virtually on a daily basis. The Boer forces under General du Toit were attacked in an artillery battle on 6 April and this pertinently brought home to the Boers the danger posed by Lord Methuen’s forces on the ...
6 hours ago · The revolutionaries' failure to seize the Canadian colonies and the continued loyalty of British colonists led to the fragmentation of Britain's North American empire. Despite successfully defending Quebec and Nova Scotia, British military defeats in the Thirteen Colonies led to their surrender in 1781 and the subsequent recognition of the ...
1 day ago · The Union Jack is the third quarter of the 1939 coat of arms of Alabama, which is used on the flag of the governor of Alabama, representing British sovereignty over the state prior to 1783. The version used is the modern flag, whereas the 1707 flag would have been used in colonial Alabama.
1 day ago · Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age is a critical examination of three novels by writers from different regions of the British Empire: Olive Schreiner’s The Story of An African Farm (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of Today (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom (Australia).
6 hours ago · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
6 hours ago · An American Revolutionary War veteran who founded some of Morgan County’s oldest Baptist churches and was a pioneer settler of the Danville-Massey area will be honored with a memorial marker.
1 day ago · A force of some 600 men under Capt. W.J. McWhinnie sets out on 2 April 1900 from Dewetsdorp, bound for Reddersburg. Early the next morning his advance scouts come under Boer fire when they reach a ridge on the farm Mostertshoek, some 6 km east of Reddersburg. De Wet sends a note to the British de...
