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• Directory:Island of Consciousness
  ...on of a plan with Tarzan befalls the concluding part. Whether the U.S. and British listen in, such innovative proposal remains anybodies guess! However the st
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• Directory:DualCitizen Consulting
  ...with the mandate to promote Dual Citizenship between North America and the British Isles. While staying true to this higher purpose, Dual Citizen Consulting i ...le= Get Your Irish On. |accessdate=2007-02-02}}</ref> With over 40 million Americans of Irish descent as its primary constituency, the firm quickly established
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• Directory:Article Heaven/Jennifer Fitzgerald
  ...n '''Jennifer Ann Isobel Patteson-Knight''' in 1932) is a [[United Kingdom|British]]-born retired [[United States|U.S.]] [[diplomat]]. During her career, she [[Category:British Americans]]
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• Directory:Ohio
  ...bited the region, which was first explored by La Salle in 1669. The French-British rivalry for control of the area led to the last of the French and Indian Wa ...ettlement W of the Appalachian Mts. Then in 1774, with the Quebec Act, the British placed the region between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes within the bou
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• Directory:The British Influence on Early American Cinema
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:The British Influence on Early American Cinema}} ==The British Influence on Early American Cinema==
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...muel de Champlain in 1609, the region was first permanently settled by the British in 1724. Claims to the area were relinquished by [[Directory:Massachusetts| ...Indian Wars in 1754 briefly suspended interest in the area, but after the British captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759, Wentworth resumed granting la
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• Directory:Wisconsin
  === British-American Struggles === ...ade from the Canadian border. In the War of 1812 Wisconsin again fell into British hands. It was only with the Treaty of Ghent (see Ghent, Treaty of) that eff
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• Directory:Indiana
  ...trol of all land east of the Mississippi River, including Indiana. However British troops did not enter the Indiana region until 1777, during the Revolutionar Settlers from the British colonies on the American east coast began migrating west in the mid 1700s,
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...rophone was now on and recording he joked [[Five minutes speech|"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outla | title = "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation<br/>that will o
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...hunting ground (and therefore a battleground) for the settlers and Native Americans. This part of Virginia, which later became West Virginia, was penetrated by ...t the formidable Allegheny Plateau barrier was not crossed until after the British government, concerned about French claims to the Ohio valley, granted (1749
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...e first settlement in the area at Providence on land purchased from Native Americans of the Narragansett tribe. In 1638, Puritan exiles bought the island of Aqu ...owned land that, following Williams' practice, was bought from the Native Americans. Fishing and trade supplemented the living won from the soil. Moreover, liv
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...vessels of several nations engaged in fur trade with the Native Americans. British captains, among them John Meares and George Vancouver, made the coastal are
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...reat bison and caribou. By 1,000 B.C., Maryland had more than 8,000 Native Americans in about 40 different tribes. Most of them spoke Algonquian languages. They We do not know what the Native Americans called the Chesapeake Bay. That name came from the Native American word "Ch
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• Directory:South Carolina
  ...ed by small farmers and traders, who pushed the dwindling tribes of Native Americans to the west. ...the 1890s brought more political power to small white farmers, but African Americans were disenfranchised and increasingly segregated.
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...st conflict (1754-63) of the French and Indian Wars between the French and British for control of North America, and Pontiac's Rebellion , a Native American u With the British victorious in both, settlers soon began to enter Kentucky. They came in def
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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  ...s and civilians to stave off a British-inspired attack by about 500 Native Americans between September 4 and September 15. The [[Battle of Fort Harrison]], as i ...ration in the same rule-of-thumb fashion with which he had fought [[Native Americans]].
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• Directory:Zacky Farms LLC
  ...standard way to raise chickens for both eggs and broilers. After the war, Americans continued to consume eggs and chicken at the same rate, although over the l ...e company occurred in 1971, when Zacky acquired a larger poultry business, British-owned Balfour Guthrie, which brought with it the Fresno Feed Mill and exten
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...he area became part of [[Directory:Louisiana|Louisiana]]. It passed to the British (1763-1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States Three major groups of Native Americans lived in the Mississippi region when European exploration of the area began
  18 KB (2,752 words) - 19:17, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Alabama
  ...olution came to Alabama. In 1780, Bernardo Galvez captured Mobile from the British. At the close of the American Revolution, Great Britain ceded (1783) to the ...the 31st parallel belonged to the United States and in turn to the Native Americans living there. At the same time the Ellicott Line was being surveyed, “squ
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• Directory:James Madison
  ...protect the United States' economic rights. That conflict began poorly as Americans suffered defeat after defeat by smaller forces, but ended on a high note in ...ot live without American foodstuffs, but Americans could easily do without British manufactures. This same faith led him to the conclusion "that it is in our
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