It received trading rights to the South Seas in return for financing the British government's debt. Shares were issued and unrealistic expectations cultivated. A monopoly of the slave trade was ...

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As America get ready to mark its 250th birthday, we take a look at the time the British troops raided Bergen County towns.

Gladstone, again her prime minister, disliked about British colonial involvement ... it was a tactile introduction to the Empire that she would never see, a trip into her imperial fantasies.