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BRITAIN'S RECORD
AS
A COLONIAL POWER
History's Answer to the 'Land Grabbing' Legend
bich
By J. HOLLAND ROSE
Helena
never have done so. But our am always was to capture hos- 18s colonies in order to use them as
\T this Ume, when the value of, grasping ot overseas trade; and AT
the conquests of the British Navy colonies is much canvassed, Charles II resolved to have his full Britain's pre-eminence as a posses share. Hence arose with the still except those which were proved to sink Power is frequently under predominant Dutch sharp feletion be essential to our trade security. notlee, not always friendly, among
Was worst un the Hudson Among them were the Cape, Mauri-
tlus and Gulana. At St, other nations. A feeling of expecta- River and in West Africa. To both Napoleon remarked to Gen. Gour- tion exists that this country has of these Charles II. sent expedi- gaud how stupid the English were something to give away in the cause tlons; the former capturing New to restore Java to the Dutch-he of world peace and stability.
Amsterdam (New York), while the would Professur S. Brodetsky, of the later brought on a collision with
Her University of Leeds, spoke lately of France.
ald to the Dutch utch "Inferiority complex which has turned the
the struggle somewhat the become noticeable in regard to
against
us; but the peace of 1007 British Empire; and, in
fact,
It has left us most of these colonial become a fashion in some political Apart from the Hudson expedition schools and even among teachers the two'chlet imperial gains in this country to deprecate im- Charles II. resulted from his mar- perialism and to adopt the attitude ringe with Catharine of Braganza, that the British Empire was amassed namely, Border British rule from and Tangier, Dom- by a course of "land-grabbings." bay increased
In this short only
facts of the real history of our possessions and the manner in which they fell into our hands, but study of them will serve to correct this misstatement.
of
means of compelling the enemy to make pence, retaining only thuse which is their hands would have been fatal to our commerce.
ELEMENT OF ACCIDENT
that the full evidence of our rela- For the rest, it must suffice to any
In 1840 reveals that the war then waged was not Morcover, due primarily to oplum. in
a few outstanding. I can elte 10,000 to 60,000 inhabitants in 1 tions with China
yeurs sure proof that I brought prosperity to India. This encouraged the spread of other "factorles" (trade settlements) in the East.
Minorca in 1708,
1937.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
24
20
ACROSS
17 Old news (7).
leather
cruel (4). 18 This may describe the watch kept by its owner waiting on the doorstep (7).
10 The gait that comes easily from
people under canvas (7).
and after the forties, Britain twice refused the offer of sovereign-
Once he lived in ty from the Fijls before accepting it TWELVE YEARS WAR
In 1874. In 1804 we ceded the Jucket (33). FIRST COLONIAL POWERS
Ionian Islands to Greece. And In 10 Threadbare (7). After expelling James II. and ac- 1005 the Commons considered serl- 11 A show of courage (7). First, our colonisation long lagged cepting William and Mary as rulers, ously withdrawing from our West 12 Precious stone (4). behind thint of the Portuguese, England had to face the ever-in-African posts. Other examples of 13 No, this Scottish island does not Spaniards, French and Dutch, The creasing power of Louls XIV. of our coyness over new colonies might
produce machine-guns (5). Portuguese secured from the Pope France. Thanks to her navy and be elted. Evor true was Burke's 14 This sort 1x obviously not in 1434 the title to all lands dis- Dutch aid she baffled Louls' efforts conclusion (1757): covered by them beyond Cape Boja- in the war of 1688-97, but retained dor (N. W. Africa) to the East Indies, none of her colonial conquests.
The settlement of our colonies Next, In 1403, after
the next war (1701-13) Louls con- was never pursued upon any regular Columbus discovered some of the West Indles, trolled nearly all Spain; and our plan; but they were formed, grew Pope Alexander VI. (a Spaniard) feet conquered Gibraltar in 1704 and flourished as accidents, as the
Spain all lands of that and awarded to
thereby nature of the ellmats, or the dis- West, while the castern threatening the South of France and position of private men, happened unknown world remained to Portugal. This Indirectly helping on Marlborough's to operate." world-partition the two Iberian na- tions somewhat modified, but contigns in Flanders. Both were at the Pesce of Utrecht firmed by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1713) as guards of our Levantine
World (1494).
since commerce, and we also recovered history Jan.turned largely on its undoing.
Nova Scotia and acquired French In 1535 Curtier, of St. Mato, dis-posts in Newfoundland and Hudson's
France's part and
St. covered and sailed up the St. Law Bay
thereby winning lower Christopher. Canada for France. Other efforts Were these gains excessive alter 12 years of victorious war or land by French, Dutch and English ven-
and sea? turers long remained fruitless, some by the
The fiercely annulled
of 1730-40. being
next war, that was at bottom a trade war, but our. Spaniards.
naval supremacy brought Spanish hostility marred the sue complete ress of Raleigh's attempts in 1583-8 ubcui no colonint change. Further,
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of
to settle Virginia; and nothing came the return of the (conquered) Cape of New Breton sinnd to France encouraged ther of the annexation Albion by Drake in 1579 or of
New- ter to resume plans for regaining | foundland
In by Gilbert
1583. Nova Scotia and encircling" our Though Elizabeth's stamen opened North American Colonies from near up the Pacific and gained access to the Ohio River to the mouth of the the North-West Passage, yet her Mississippi, caution rendered those exploits po-Years War (1758-031, which spread Thes threats started the Seven litically null and vold, even after- our decisive defeats the Spanish to Europe and India. at first Navy in 1500 and 1500.
threatening us with rain, yet slowly but surely (thanks mainly to our LOST OPPORTUNITIES navy) turning to our advantage. As Franch palley had now necessitated The only practical outcome Elizabellaan successes was the foun-the expulsion of one or the other treat Powers from North America dation of our East India Company and India, the cutcome of the Peace The end of 1800. Well might of Paris was to deprive France of chroniclers and thinkers, especially Canada and all but a few unfortified
of the tardiness Hakluyt, farment
posts in India. Yet the victor res- English colonisation in those giori tored to her the conquered islands
when
we defled and aus year's,
and Martinique. Guadeloupe, Marie Ga- St. Lucia, Si, Merre and and helped the Dutch to throw off her yoke and break into her oceanic Cuba and Munita.
With admirable foresight in 1593, they occupied _Mauritius thus controlling the approach to the East Indies. Their occupation of the Hudson River in 1610-11 also promised them primacy In North America.
weakened the work power of Spain aciun. dve back to Spain
preserves.
Moreover, the tame and land- locked polley of James I. enabled the Dutch to gain supremacy at sea. When, in 1620, two English captains ventured to annex that glorious position, Table Bay, the King an- nulled the net and thus made our new rivals masters of the sea route to the East..
Another
and
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France, Spain and Britain-to-ex- result was the effort of plore the nighty South Sea for its Sale Agents: Imperial Chemical Industries presumed hidden continent. Thanks
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instructions of our Admiralty, the prize came to us-New Zealand. Enst Australia and several Paclite islands, together with the claim to Vancouver Island.
BONAPARTE CHALLENGE
I omit the colossal losses of the Empire in the War of the American Hevolution (1770-83). They threat- Meanwhile English energy hud, in ened its ruing but our industrial 1607, successfully foundest Janies-progress and the wise polley of the town, capital of Virginia, and in younger Pitt rehabilitated it by 1793, 1630 the Pligrim Fathers peaceably when there came the rupture with uccupied New Plymouth in Massa- the French Republic, due chiefly to chusetts Bay.
ils effort to overbear the Dutch Thus, the desire to extend our long Slate. The conflict became colonial again when, in 1798, Bonaparte stationary trade, and to assure the religious iberty denied by James at sized Malta and Egypt, pour chas-
ser les Anglais des Indies.
Nelson's home, founded our overseas Empire. Ser
The internal troubles of the reign mighty blow at Aboukir thwarted of Charles I. drove
Intention, while France's ent- any English thin overseas; and S. Christopher, Bar-spaw in India, the Raja of Mysore, bados, Nevis and Antigua were set-suffered a fatal defeat at Seringapt- tled by private enterprise, the set- tam
The resumption of tlers returning to the first so soon as the Spanish fleet which expelled plans by Bonaparte, when First them and disappeared. Not until Consul of France, led to the rupture Cromwell gained authority did the of May, 1803. Fox passionately ac Government press on colonisation. cused the Pilt ministry of going to
BOMBAY AND TANGIER
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Actually Malta was the key to Egy Telephone time supremacy of the Dutch in the which was the key to India, In
war of 1052-4 (wisich brought us Addington's Government had, at the 20752 no new colonies) the Protector used Peads
surrendered
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