colonist
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However, the researchers report their work revealed the "richness, abundance and composition" of the bee populations were "signficantly impacted by agricultural colonization after as little as 10-17 years of settlement by colonist farmers and ranchers."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023
It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.
From Reuters ● Jul. 28, 2022
Senegalese Author Mariama Bâ: “The assimilationist dream of the colonist drew into its crucible our mode of thought and way of life.”
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
“I have been informed by Wemmick,” pursued Mr. Jaggers, still looking hard at me, “that he has received a letter, under date Portsmouth, from a colonist of the name of Purvis, or—”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
But he devotes considerable attention to how Native Americans manipulated and frequently triumphed over colonists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
This view came from England “and crossed the Atlantic with the colonists — and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The letter from the owner of the cargo, the East India Company, to the British government gives a breakdown of the tea destroyed on December 16, 1773 by American colonists.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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