Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...
It began with exploration but quickly turned into conquest. In just a century, European powers reshaped the Americas through war, trade, and colonization As California highway slides toward sea, the ...
Colonies of North America in 1776, at the United States Declaration of Independence. Statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Thirteen American colonies then at war with Great ...
When George III became King in 1760, he was at the helm of a burgeoning empire. With territory forcibly taken in western ...