Search results for "Cape Colony" - New World Encyclopedia
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- was also used to indicate the early Cape Colony commissioned by the Dutch ... bankruptcy, and the British annexed the Cape Colony in 1805. The British continued ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- after, the Netherlands set up their Cape Colony, and shipping and trade ... as a port and then as a European colony. Cape colony was founded by the Dutch ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton—formerly île Royale ... Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth ... With the charter for the colony incomplete at the time the colonists ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- lost to Denmark and the Dutch) Including Cape Coast (1649-1663) consisting ... an agricultural (tobacco) and fur trading colony to bypass French, British ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- of Griqualand West into the Cape Colony in 1877, the area obtained ... Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and implemented laws that ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 20:13, 4 January 2024
- The Republic of Cape Verde or Cape Verde is a republic located on ... After independence, Cape Verde was led initially, along with Guinea ...19 KB (2,758 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- |event_end=Dissolution by Cape Colony |p1=Mtetwa Paramountcy ... ==Dinuzulu's Volunteers and final absorption into Cape Colony== ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- became the capital of the newly formed Cape Colony, whose territory expanded ... Union of South Africa, which unified the Cape Colony with the two defeated ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- than 67 km (40 mi) from a body of water. Cape Breton Island, a large island ... variously mountainous, hilly and forested. Cape Breton Island's lake ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- established England's first overseas colony—a fishing settlement—in ... continental empire. Cabot's modest colony was the humble beginning ...9 KB (1,380 words) - 04:35, 3 August 2022
- approximately 6 miles (10 km) north of Cape Town. Its name comes from ... unsuccessful, the island became a penal colony and eventually a place of ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- known as Tasmania, would become a British colony. Its Aborigine population ... and turned north-east until he was off Cape Frederick Hendrick on the ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- of New South Wales, the first European colony on the Australian continent ... South Wales, the proposed British penal colony on the east coast of Australia ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
- situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. Bishops ... universal suffrage, which was granted the colony in 1944. HE served as the ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- a monopoly on Dutch trade East of the Cape of Good Hope and West of the ... later became a fully-fledged colony, the Cape Colony, when more Dutch and other ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- They fought so tenaciously to keep their colony that subsequent to independence ... established a refueling station at the Cape of Good Hope, situated half ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- helped ensure the survival of the Virginia colony. Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...17 KB (2,676 words) - 07:51, 3 August 2022
- *** Cape fur seal, A. pusillus ****South African fur seal, A. pusillus ... Guadalupe fur seal, northern fur seal, and Cape fur seal, suffered dramatic ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- Pilgrims as military adviser for Plymouth Colony. He accompanied them on the ... raid and the conflict at Wessagusset Colony. During these actions, Standish ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
