colonial
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After America defeated the Marianas’ colonial ruler in the Spanish-American War, it wanted a base to project power over the western Pacific.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
He and Nieuwenhuijsen delved deeper into the Sablonière archive as well as historic archives of the Society of Berbice—a colonial commercial entity similar to the Dutch West India Company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The artist was Jeremias Schultz, a Berliner born in 1723 who resettled in the Netherlands and established himself as a painter of the Dutch colonial empire’s merchant class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Many were acquired by John Henry Hutton, a colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service and an anthropologist, who handed them to the museum more than a century ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
When Europeans at last arrived, their technological and other advantages enabled them to establish temporary colonial domination over most of tropical Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Their seasoned troops, reinforced by Hessian mercenaries, faced an amateurish and poorly provisioned army of colonials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Stately, white colonials are on one block, while modest Spanish revivals sit on the next.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
Year-round, elegant colonials and ramblers, with their classic details, red brick and stonework, grace Colonial Village in Northwest Washington.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
In western and southern 22207, new construction is beginning to overtake the postwar ranches, colonials, and split-levels built in the first wave of suburbanization.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2020
He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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