Colonial Expansion Quotes
Referring to the Mexican War:
His idea was to send English people who were vagabonds, paupers, failures, and never do wells to America. These people in England were just “waste”. But in America, the could be apprenticed or become indentured servants, learn skill and they would (and indeed did) become the corps of laborers needed to cut down the trees, beat the hemp (for making rope), gather honey, salt and dry fish, dress raw animal hides, dig the earth for minerals, raise olives and silk, and sort and pack bird feathers. In England they were so desperate that they would work in the difficult conditions of the colonies and would be willing to venture out from the country and culture in which they existed—a major problem in getting colonial workers.
Americans General William Hull had crossed the Canadian border with 2500 men announcing his intention to invade. Brock’s appeal to the loyalty of English-Canadians to fight off the Americans was in their self-interest as English. He argued that if Canada weakened or the Americans temporarily conquered Canada, they could not hold it, and Napoleon's France would re-colonize Canada. In short, fight against the Americans and keep the French out.
Published in London as “A Map of Virginia”, 1612
Policy statement regarding European rival Germany’s colonial expansion in Africa which was being “carved up” by the European powers.
The Punjab, like Afghanistan and some other areas had no real tradition of government. The Sikhs of the Punjab had initiated a war with the British Colonial Empire—The 1st Anglo-Sikh War—which ended with a decisive British victory and a peace treaty where the rulers of the Punjab agreed to keep the peace. However, they really could not control the population and some Sikhs again attacked British and Muslim interests. The Governor-General reported that treaties and commitments with the Punjab leaders really meant little. The British also won the 2nd Anglo-Sikh War-. The Governor-General was determined that there would not be a 3rd war with the Sikhs of the Punjab.
He was a great believer in moving large numbers of Dutch settlers to the Dutch colonies in the East Indies.
“Transported” meant they were convicted criminals in England who were sold into indentured servitude for a number of years. When their sentence was up, they became free but had no assets or land, so they went to the frontier and settled on land there which sometimes was Indian occupied land, but was more often Indian hunting land. This often caused friction between the new Americans and the Indians. The original criminal origin of these Americans was constantly views in a negative light by the upper class English (See {605546}.). He was the de facto Governor of the colony as there was no one senior to him on the American side of the Atlantic.
Published 100 years after it was written. This is the first known written statement of what became a de facto policy regarding the American Indian.
Cromwell’s motivation for Empire was different from most other English leaders, but defeating the Catholic Spanish in the New World would be another of God’s victories over the Catholics which Cromwell and many of his Puritan followers thought was the desire and will of God.
In 1832 the President sent Edmund Roberts, a New Hampshire sea captain, to arrange commercial treaties with Asian countries such as Burma, Indo-China, Siam and Japan:
This editorial was written just after the Massacre of Wounded Knee. An irony is that this editor who called for the extermination of Native Americans was later the author of The Wizard of Oz.
The actor and many others refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations into alleged communist activity and was blacklisted by the move industry for over a decade. See {588759} and {588760}.
Ironically America bought the Louisiana Territory from the French, and the French traded Canada to England for Guadalupe. These are probably the two worst real estate deals ever made by a nation—and it was the same nation in both cases.
