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    A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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    because of this, the colony's charter prohibited slavery. The ban on slavery was lifted by 1751 and the colony became a royal colony by 1752. Although many...
    24 KB (2,289 words) - 13:19, 5 August 2024
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    hinterland of Aden Colony was separately governed as the Aden Protectorate. On 18 January 1839, the British East India Company landed Royal Marines at Aden...
    35 KB (4,186 words) - 01:00, 27 June 2024
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    originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to...
    33 KB (2,677 words) - 04:40, 16 August 2024
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    quickly reasserted their old forms of government. The Plymouth colony never had a royal charter, so its governance had always been on a somewhat precarious...
    43 KB (5,119 words) - 04:41, 6 July 2024
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    divisions, East Jersey and West Jersey, until they were united as a royal colony in 1702. The original boundaries of the province were slightly larger...
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    Bay Colony in 1641; chartered as royal colony in 1679 Connecticut Colony, established in 1636; chartered as royal colony in 1662 Saybrook Colony, established...
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    Virginia Colony was transferred to royal authority as a crown colony. After the English Civil War in the 1640s and 1650s, the Virginia colony was nicknamed...
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  • colonies in North America, the other classes being proprietary colony and royal colony. These colonies were operated under a corporate charter given by...
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    early planters' interest as the colony transitioned from being managed by the Virginia Company and becoming a royal colony under Charles I of England. Farrar...
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    An ant colony is a population of ants, typically from a single species, capable of maintaining their complete lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, communal...
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    The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. In 1664...
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    Roanoke Colony (/ˈroʊənoʊk/ ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was...
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    led to the appointment of a royal governor for South Carolina in that same year. North Carolina would become a royal colony in 1729. Bibliography of South...
    23 KB (2,275 words) - 15:18, 26 June 2024
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    governing the entire colony from Charles Town, the colony was eventually divided and North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and was one...
    231 KB (20,179 words) - 08:04, 19 August 2024
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    The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America from 1634 until 1776, when the province was one of the Thirteen Colonies...
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    cruisers of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout the Second World War. Each ship of the class was named after a Crown colony or other constituent...
    25 KB (2,680 words) - 02:29, 7 December 2023
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    surrender of the colony by the Dutch. The English received little resistance due to West India Company's decision not to garrison the colony. Nicolls took...
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    charter colony, the King granted a royal charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed and charter colonies...
    107 KB (2,480 words) - 15:27, 23 July 2024
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    Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America...
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