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	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp
		Though not in parliament he was appointed colonial secretary and minister for railways in the Mitchell government in May 1919, a fortnight later was elected a member of the legislative assembly, and exchanged the portfolio of colonial secretary for those of mines, industries and forests.
		Governor Brisbane opposed his suggestion that "government reserves" should be considered church and school lands, and with regard to land generally, comparatively little of it had even been surveyed.
		When the colony was passing through a troublesome time in 1892 the suggestion was made that he should come back to the legislative assembly and lead a coalition government, but the state of his health would not permit him to do this.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html (21259 words)

	Louis XIV of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In October 1685, Louis increased the persecution of the Huguenots by issuing the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes.
		Charles II chose the Habsburgs, settling on the Emperor Leopold's younger son, the Archduke Charles.
		The General settlement recognised Philip V as King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish colonies in the Americas.
	louis-xiv-of-france.iqnaut.net (4279 words)

	FRANCIA
		Looking backwards and forwards from this point, the French colonial Empire went through two major phases, the original expansion of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the conquests of the 19th century.
		While French colonialism may have had less of the racism and racial separateness that now seem characteristic of British practice, it nevertheless was rather more intent on imposing French "civilization" and less tolerant of taking "no" for an answer -- while the British condescended to allow quaint native customs and institutions to survive, within limits.
		A curious survival of French colonialism is the French Foreign Legion, the Légion Etrangère.
	www.friesian.com /francia.htm (14221 words)

	1714 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 24 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b.
		May 15 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
		June 8 - Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1714 (522 words)

	OFFICERS - Online Information article about OFFICERS
		Thus in the British army it was not until late in the 18th century that general officers received any pay as such.
		Candidates for commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Army Veterinary Corps are not required to pass an educational examination, the ordinary course of medical or veterinary education being deemed sufficient, but the Army Council may reject a candidate who shows any deficiency in his general education.
		(5) The conditions for Officers of the Colonial Military Forces are similar to those for the Special Reserve, andc., except that only two months' attachment to a Regular unit, or unit of the Permanent Colonial Forces, is required.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NUM_ORC/OFFICERS.html (7228 words)

	The Rise of an Illiberal Democracy in India: A Case-Study of the Crisis in Punjab by Sikh Genocide Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He was forced to kill his infant son and was then beheaded…The governors of Punjab were determined to wipe out the Sikhs and ordered the immediate execution of anyone who wore his hair and beard unshorn…The Harmander in Amritsar was blown up and thousands of men, women and children butchered.
		The Sikh leadership was not politically savvy to foresee that the likelihood of Congress’ communalism in the colonial period being transformed into liberalism in the postcolonial period was slim.
		Iqbal Singh writes that this religious tradition, which remained in force during British colonialism, was stopped by the Indian Central Government in 1983 in the face of growing tensions in the Punjab.
	www.sikhgenocide.org /background.htm (9962 words)

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