After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775 ...

A pirate's life for you - there’s treasure around every corner for Ed Elliot in flourishing St Vincent, a true Caribbean star ...

Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

They said the drastic political changes reflect the shrinking of the Western-style civil liberties in Hong Kong that Beijing promised to retain in the former British colony for 50 years after the 1997 ...

The drum was confiscated by British colonial officers in 1902 and shipped to the United Kingdom, where it was later donated to the British Museum in 1908. Although it is currently held in the museum’s ...

what about the many towns and places in Malaysia that still carry the names of colonial officers and British royalty? Names are not just for convenience—they carry meaning. Keretapi Tanah Melayu ...

Colonial Legacy and the Source of Conflict When the British colonizers departed, they left behind colonial intricacies, including the contentious water landscape surrounding the Indus River system.

a feat that was contrary to the British policy of female political exclusion in colonial Nigeria. The British District Officer W. H. Lloyd said Ahebi was: a lady of influence and power.

The American democratic republic, a modest British colony that became the world’s richest country and greatest military power, has died. It was 236 years old. No official announcement was made ...

“The British empire conceived and exported the colonial-era practices of geological exploitation, with architecture as a manifestation of that, to its enduring detriment,” says ...

KINGSPORT— In March of 1775, just weeks before British troops marched on Lexington and Concord and the first shots of the American Revolution rang out, another chapter in the fight for ...

and the Aden-led People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (a former British colony and protectorate, then independent Marxist regime). North-south tensions and conflict have recurred since the ...