When the British took control of Florida in 1763, St. Augustine already had extensive Spanish-built defenses, but British ...
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
City archaeologists in St. Augustine uncovered a dry moat belonging to a British redoubt, a fortified military outpost, ...
Although the film depicts the British Army in colonial America, Hogan said the film’s battle formations accurately reflect the real military strategy of the period, some of which continued into ...
One British soldier had on average about 15 porters ... in colonies such as Kenya it largely depended on colonial authorities and the military to provide the names of the war dead and locations ...
UK lawmaker Bob Blackman urged the government to formally apologize for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
African soldiers performed a variety of ... One must not focus the story on British subjects only. France had a corps of colonial infantry since the Second Empire (the mid-XIX century).
The head is believed to have been cut off by German soldiers and taken to Germany by the colonial administration ... were plundered from Benin City by British troops, and details about the ...
On the other hand, the Northern Protectorate was run by Lord Frederick Lugard, with “the soldier’s love of ... that it produced two types of British colonial administrations, those recruited ...
The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for ... was needed to pay for the army and navy. The combination of inflation and taxation caused great colonial discontent.