Colonists in a sentence

After European colonization of the Northeast started, the Mohawk had a lucrative fur trade with the French coming down from Canada, as well as the early Dutch colonists, and later British and German colonists.

After the raids he then went on to find Sir Walter Raleigh 's settlement much further North at Roanoke which he replenished and also took back with him all of the original colonists before Sir Richard Greynvile arrived with supplies and more colonists.

After two colonists are killed trying to surrender, and the power to the building is cut, the colonists decide they have no choice but to fight back.

Men such as James Otis and Samuel Adams argued that because the colonists were not represented in Parliament, they could not be taxed by that body; only the colonial assemblies, where the colonists were represented, could levy taxes upon the colonies.

Retrieved 26 May 2013 The colonists also mounted armed campaigns against the Maroons, who generally escaped through the rainforest which they knew much better than did the colonists.

This Rebellion was initially led by Sir Phelim O'Neill (Irish: Sir Féilim Ó Néill), and was intended to overthrow British rule rapidly, but quickly degenerated into attacks on colonists, in which dispossessed Irish slaughtered thousands of the colonists.

How did the Colonists get here?

In real life, historians have no idea what happened to the colonists, though it is primarily assumed they were killed by either disease or by Native Americans.

The case, in which the heirs claim rights over Malaysian oil and gas revenues, was determined based on a 19th-century land treaty between the British colonists and the defunct sultanate.

The colonists behind the Boston protest were angered that London’s refusal to afford them equal British rights effectively made them second-class citizens.

The over-ambition of the Company and the Scottish nation, poor strategic planning and, above all, infighting among the would-be colonists, all made the project well-nigh doomed.

All were about taxation, the issue that gave rise to this country in the first place when fed-up colonists grew tired of having their substance eaten out, as Jefferson put it, by endless levies from the motherland.

Furthermore, attacks by Israeli Jewish colonists in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have surged significantly since the election of Israel’s most racist government.

Hatch said his ancestors lived in palisaded villages and hamlets along the Potomac Creek and traded with Jamestown colonists and the English in the early 17th century.

In 1598, roughly half a century later, upon orders from the Spanish Crown, Juan de Oñate led a group of 200 soldier-colonists from Zacatecas into Nuevo Mexico.

It was the French colonists who systematically exterminated the local indigenous peoples and began to exploit indigenous labor by importing African slaves from Africa.

Local sources said that several colonists broke into the al-Mughayyir village and set fire to a vehicle belonging to a citizen before they were confronted and forced out of the area by the local villagers.

The change opens the way for people who want greater representation of the Frontier Wars (between British colonists and Indigenous resisters) to get on the board which will make that decision.

This was around the same time English colonists arrived in the US.

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