How did Britain make money from the 13 colonies? The vast network of trade links built ... Growing grains is the main source of income for the Middle Colonies. The British Empire was powerful without ...

It lost South Africa and its Indian trading posts to the British, but retained control of the Dutch ... There would not be an American Revolution that united all of the 13 colonies that became the ...

The British Empire is considered to have been the largest empire in history. At its peak in 1920 covered 13.71 million square mile ... world as much any of the others have done. Many former colonies ...

The Patriots themselves were named after the colonial Americans who rebelled against the British Empire's control of the ...

For decades, Franklin was the British Empire’s biggest booster in America ... the first permanent British settlement in what became the Thirteen Colonies, and ten miles from Yorktown, where ...

By Gwynne Dyer - With the sole exception of the 50 people on Pitcairn Island, the United Kingdom (once known as the British Empire ... The ex-colonies need leverage, and colonial guilt is a ...

Seventy years since India gained its independence from the British Empire, the UK is seeking a ... to the appalling massacre at Amritsar on 13 April 1919. Gandhi, then a rather marginal figure ...

I became friends with many of the British ... colonies. However, while the act abolished the trade in enslaved people, it did not end the use of enslaved labour across the British Empire.

The foreign minister of the Bahamas has suggested Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy will ‘come around’ to offering reparations ...

But some countries make motorists more nervous than others.A survey published in October shows drivers are most concerned ...

Britain had once created a formidable colonial enterprise across the globe, an empire where “the ... whose culture owed much to the 13 Colonies of British North America, suffered from the ...

The response from followers – including apologies and even shame at not knowing this history – has led me to write The ...