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  2. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    In the Caribbean Sea, English sailors defied Spanish trade restrictions and preyed on Spanish treasure ships. [5] The English colonization of America had been based on the English colonization of Ireland, specifically the Munster Plantation, England's first colony, [6] using the same tactics as the Plantations of Ireland.

  3. English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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    On the 25th of September, 1649, the Council and Country met at the home of John Trimingham after "the party in arms called 'The Country'" had arrested White under the aforementioned warrant, along with most of the Independents (who had been imprisoned in the house of a Mrs. Taylor). The Country exhibited articles against Governor Turner.

  4. British North America - Wikipedia

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    Scotland's attempts to establish its own colonies in North America and Central America before 1707 had been short-lived, but England brought substantial trans-Atlantic possessions into the new union when English America became British America. In 1775, on the eve of the American Revolution and parallel. American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

  5. History of England - Wikipedia

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    The country's official name thus became "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". England, as part of the UK, joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which became the European Union in 1993. The UK left the EU in 2020. There is a movement in England to create a devolved English Parliament. This would give England a ...

  6. British Empire - Wikipedia

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    England had already colonised part of the country following the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. [17] Several people who helped establish the Munster plantations later played a part in the early colonisation of North America, particularly a group known as the West Country Men .

  7. List of sovereign states by date of formation - Wikipedia

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    Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...

  8. History of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Millions more migrated to England, or to North America. Ireland became permanently smaller in terms of population. In the 1870s new moderate nationalist movement was formed. As the Irish Parliamentary Party it became a major factor in parliament under Charles Stewart Parnell. Home Rule Bills introduced by Liberal Prime Minister Gladstone failed ...

  9. Rights of Englishmen - Wikipedia

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    The "rights of Englishmen" are the traditional rights of English subjects and later English-speaking subjects of the British Crown.In the 18th century, some of the colonists who objected to British rule in the thirteen British North American colonies that would become the first United States argued that their traditional [1] rights as Englishmen were being violated.