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	Maori Wars
		Under pressure from settlers, the Colonial Government gradually ignored the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi and permitted settlers to settle in areas that had uncertain ownership.
		They originally used the Imperial Troops for this but their commander, General Cameron, resigned in protest and it was shortly after this that the last British troops were withdrawn.
		The British troops were already exhausted when they arrived in front of the Pa. The next day they tried a frontal attack and discovered that the bush and gullies they were advancing across were full of hostile warriors.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/maori_wars (2802 words)

	American Revolutionary War - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		However, under the doctrine of mercantilism the British considered the Colonies more as a resource to be utilized for the benefit of their own economy and had little respect for the Colonialists.
		News of the surrender arrived in Paris hard on the heels of news that colonial troops had caused supposedly invincible British regulars to flee in disarray in the early stages of the Battle of Germantown[?].
		Washington moved his troops from New York and a combined Colonial-French force of 16,000 or 17,000 troops was assembled and commenced the Battle of Yorktown on October 6, 1781.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/am/American_Revolutionary_War.html (1235 words)

	Battle of Beers Plain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A troop of 38 soldiers under the command of Captain Beers was on its way.
		When the relief troop came to within 4 miles of Northfield, the decision was made to stop for the night.
		Early the next morning the troops continued on foot, leaving a guard behind with the horses.
	www.bio.umass.edu /biology/conn.river/beers.html (420 words)

	The French Experience
		They directed propaganda at the colonial troops, asking them why they continued to serve under the French master and the colonial troops were encouraged to defect.
		When colonial troops were captured, they were treated better than other members of the French Expeditionary Forces and they were encouraged to return to their homes.
		French Legionnaires and colonial troops were, in the main, returned home through China and Russia, thereby making it impossible for the French to account for all their troops.
	www.miafacts.org /french.htm (1506 words)

	Colonial American Troops 1610-1774 (3 (Men at Arms, 383) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Colonial American Troops 1610 - 1774 (1), is a recent Osprey Men-at-Arms (#366) by Rene Chartrand, with illustrations by David Rickman.
		Not only does Chartrand investigate the colonial militias, he is also careful to highlight the presence of Royal troops within the colonies.
		It is highly appealing to see a work that touches on the seventeenth-century militias of the colonies, as these are often forgotten in the wake of works dealing with the French and Indian War, or the American War for Independence.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn1841764833.html (426 words)

	Savage and Soldier Online
		Although Germany never had the extensive colonial empires of England or France, it nevertheless was involved in a series of hard-fought campaigns against native forces which consisted of everything from skirmishes to outright wars.
		Shortly after his death the Dohomey troops mutinied against the new acting governor, Leist, a brutal man who had treated the soldiers badly and had commanded their wives be publicly whipped when the troops had complained about poor pay and terrible food.
		However, the newly arrived German troops were not conditioned for the climate and soon proved to be ineffectual against the seasoned Herero.
	www.savageandsoldier.com /articles/africa/GermanWars.html (4718 words)

	SparkNotes: The French and Indian War (1754-1763): Declared War and French Dominance
		It was under Loundoun's command that the "mutiny" of colonial militiamen exploded, and it was under his command that the British suffered some of the worst defeats of the war.
		His intention was clearly to fortify the colonial troops with British men; the colonial men did not take kindly to the implicit assumption of their inferiority.
		His openly condescending behavior toward the colonial troops shows how far out of touch most of the British were with life in the colonies, and underlines conflicts to come between the mother country and its American colonies.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/frenchindian/section4.rhtml (818 words)

	Edward J. Dodson / Review of Guy Chet's Conquering The American Wilderness
		His finding is that from King's Philip's War on, "colonial wars were won not through a succession of tactical victories but through a campaign of attrition."[p.2] Moreover, whenever sufficient men and materials could be brought together and efficiently employed, European strategies on the battlefield prevailed.
		They consistently relied upon "their mobility by drawing the enemy in pursuit and then encircling it."[p.30] When the colonial troops abandoned standard European tactics and safeguards, chaos was often the result and losses were high.
		The colonial forces were often smaller in number than their tribal opponents, so they "relied heavily on their ability to surprise the enemy."[p.31] One example was the 1675 surprise attack on the Narragansetts primary settlement - and fortification - near Kingston, Rhode Island.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /dodson_review_of_chet.html (1027 words)

	News Releases
		The weekend is filled with evidence of military prowess by the Continental Army troops, including artillery practice and musket drills.
		Established in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational institution that operates the restored 18th-century capital of Virginia.
		Colonial Williamsburg is located 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., off Interstate 64.
	www.history.org /Foundation/press_release/displayPressRelease.cfm?pressReleaseId=361 (458 words)

	Fort Pitt Museum - History and Story
		During the French and Indian War, both colonial powers were willing to sacrifice human lives and enormous amounts of money for the control of this valuable piece of land.
		On May 28th 1754, a small group of Colonial troops led by Major George Washington fired on a group of French soldiers in an event known as the Jumonville Affair.
		Troops and supplies were gathered at Fort Pitt for the defense of the frontier.
	www.fortpittmuseum.com /History.html (1101 words)

	Re: French losses WW1-Colonial Troops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On the contrary, the tirailleurs regiments were mainly composed of native troops, with the exception of most of the officers and non-commissioned officers.
		This is the official history of the colonial troops, published for the Colonial Exhibition held at Paris in 1931.
		The total of the mobilised troops in the French army was 8,213,000 men, including 275,290 natives troops from the Afrique Noire (Black Africa) and 260,000 natives troops from North Africa.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/archives/wwi-l/2000/01/msg00030.html (310 words)

	Timeline - The American Revolution
		Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack; they defeat the British at the battles of Trenton and Princeton (December).
		British troops are defeated at Saratoga, New York, failing to cut New England off from the rest of the colonies (October).
		The colonial vessel, Bonhomme Richard, forces the surrender of the British warship, Serapis (September).
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/TIMELINE.HTM (422 words)

	HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: History and Prehistory of Mentawai
		The colonial period had a differential impact on the islands, the southernmost (North and South Pagai) being subject to the major forces of change.
		In sum, however, colonial involvement in the islands was minimal.
		However, contact during the colonial and post-colonial periods and its concomitant consequences accelerated processes of change that have affected different regions to greater or lesser degrees.
	www.mentawai.org /histbackgr.htm (2665 words)

	France at War - Tirailleurs Senegalais
		Poll tax rates were rising rapidly, French colonial administrators demanded corvee labor on roads and railways, and the practice of compulsory crop cultivation was spreading.
		And, unlike metropolitan troops, many Tirailleur conscripts were not demobilized in 1919, but stayed on for occupation duty in Germany and in garrisons in an enlarged French colonial empire.
		For example, the II Colonial Infantry Corps was routinely assigned to command French metropolitan divisions.
	www.worldwar1.com /france/tseng.htm (2469 words)

	Vietnamhistory
		Officially the word is that the French colonial power leaves all military installation for the Japanese to use; in response the French colonial administration remains in office.
		His reason: at that time there are more than 180,000 nationalist Chinese troops in North Vietnam; the Viet Minh in North Vietnam feel not strong enough to conduct their liberation war simultaneously against the French colonial forces and the Chinese troops.
		On November 20, 1953, the French colonial forces install a garrison of 16,000 troops in Dien Bien Phu, a broad valley in the rough mountains along the border of North Vietnam and Northern Laos.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~xihuule/vietnam/Vietnamhistory.html (2822 words)

	Eric Margolis — FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
		PARIS - Fifty years ago this month, France watched and wept for 57 days as its colonial troops defending the entrenched camp at Dien Bien Phu were submerged by endless waves of Vietnamese infantry.
		An inevitable byproduct of colonial adventures is an unwanted, usually massive influx of people from the conquered country.
		Colonial occupations almost always cost far more than planned and produce negative earnings for the invader.
	www.bigeye.com /fc051704.htm (752 words)

	Osprey Men-at-Arms 313 : Louis XV's Army (5) : Colonial and Naval Troops
		These colonies were garrisoned by thousands of regular officers and soldiers who belonged to the Navy's colonial establishment or by the French East India Company's troops.
		These troops did not form part of the regular army, and are not usually covered in histories of the French forces.
		Yet, since the end of the 17th century, they saw most action against the enemy overseas [usually the British] and in ships on the high seas; it was only from 1755 that metropolitan army battalions first saw action overseas.
	www.militaryfocus.com /osprey/men-at-arms/313.htm (322 words)

	Sandstorm Foreign Legion / Colonial Era game
		British Colonials - regular British troops in tropical kits, from the bright Red Coats seen in the early African campaigns to khaki and green drab of the turn of the century.
		The common tank used in colonies would be a small tankette like the French WW1 Char D'assault, a small 2-man tank armed with a machine gun or light field gun.
		Think about it: regular troops with tanks and armored cars, together with native auxiliaries, fighting their European foe and his auxiliaries.
	www.thortrains.net /armymen/fflgame.htm (2969 words)

	Peter Salem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of the most important colonial victories early in the U.S. War of Independence was the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was fought on June 17, 1775.
		By the middle of June, hearing that the British general, Thomas Gage was about to occupy one of the hills, the colonials decided to fortify it.
		Landing without opposition under artillery protection, the British were stopped by heavy fire from the colonial troops barricaded behind rail fences that had been stuffed with grass, hay, and brush.
	www.esperstamps.org /aa6.htm (491 words)

	The Battle of Bunker Hill--Visual 3
		Photo 1: A miniature showing the redoubt atop Breed's Hill and the colonists waiting for the advancing British troops, June 17, 1775.
		Compare the battle formation of the British in Painting 1 with the position of the colonial troops of Photo 1.
		You can obtain a high quality version of the photo, but be aware that the file will take as much as two minutes to load with a 28.8K modem.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/42bunker/42visual3.htm (187 words)

	Colonial American Troops 1610-1774 (3 (Men at Arms, 383)
		From the earliest English settlements the survival of the infant colonies in North America depended upon local militias.
		Before the mid-18th century royal troops were seldom shipped out from Britain, and the main burden of successive wars with the American Indians, and with Britain's colonial rivals France and Spain, fell upon locally raised units, which also fought alongside the Crown forces during the major operations of the French-Indian War of the 1750s.
		This final book of a fascinating three-part study covers the militias and provincial troops raised in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Nova Scotia, Hudson's Bay and Quebec Province; and also Rangers, and colors and standards.
	www.literacyconnections.com /ItemId/1841764833 (352 words)

	WPI Department of Military Science - People, Places and Terms Mentioned in Staff Rides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The French and Indian war was a series of armed conflicts between England's colonies in North America on one side and the rival European colonies on the other during the period of 1689-1763.
		The jaeger rifle differed from the colonial long rifle in that it was heavier, shorter, and less-accurate than the American weapon.
		When he recieved news that British troops were engaged in heavy battle down the road, Percy set his men in lines to Lexington, and awaited Smith's column.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/glossary.html (8995 words)

	AllRefer.com - Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His works on French colonial activities show concern with colonial development and supply a useful exposition of French colonial policy.
		Mangin, who commanded in World War I and was prominent in the defense of Verdun, supported a costly policy of offensive warfare as opposed to trench warfare.
		In 1921 he became a member of the supreme war council and inspector general of colonial troops.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mangin-C.html (211 words)

	HOW NEWSPAPERS COVERED THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR - The Early America Review, Spring 1997
		A distraught Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie had warned the colony's assemblymen that the very "Welfare of all the Colonies on this Continent" was in jeopardy from the French and their Native American friends.
		Letters from colonial militia members that appeared in newspapers kept readers apprised of Braddock's progress toward the French Fort Duquesne at the meeting of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers.* But Braddock's troops were routed by the French and Indians, and Braddock killed.
		Because the English controlled the territory between their advancing armies and the main colonial ports, news of the invasion of Canada appeared weekly, despite the fact that a writer to the Boston Gazette claimed, "it will be very difficult for a weekly news writer to keep pace" with the advancing army.
	earlyamerica.com /review/spring97/newspapers.html (7763 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Colonial American Troops 1610-1774: Pt. 3 (Men-at-arms S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From the earliest English settlements the survival of the infant colonies depended upon these militias and they included conventional line regiments, provincial units, militias, and the legendary Rangers.
		The author supposes that the reader has an already in depth knowledge of the histroy of the era and as such explains none of the historical events.
		This book is merely a list of troop formations, their size, where and when they were formed, and nothing more.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841764833 (432 words)

	rediff.com US edition: UK plans memorial to colonial troops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		That she came on the day her mother had been hospitalised was some measure of the seriousness with which the British government views the move to honour the Indian dead.
		The move came not from the government, but from Baroness Shreela Flather, the sari-clad member of the House of Lords, who proposed the setting up of a memorial to soldiers from India and the colonies, who had died fighting for Britain.
		Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a bright yellow suit and hat for the occasion, made the short drive from her palace to Constitution Hill for the ceremony.
	www.rediff.com /us/2001/aug/02uk1.htm (716 words)

	Memorial to Colonial troops, Indian Airforce
		The contribution from the British African colonies was substantial in terms of troops, transport auxiliaries, money and raw materials.
		Without the outstanding service and sacrifice made by the voluntary forces from Britain’s Colonies, the outcome of the Second World War might well have been different, and would certainly have lasted much longer.
		The British feel it is important that this tremendous contribution in two World Wars should be recognised by a permanent and fitting Memorial in the heart of London, and yet the Memorial will look more to the future than the past.
	samariaf0.tripod.com /other721.html (414 words)

	Revolutionary War WebQuest
		Troops of His Majesty are making Boston into a fort while local colonial militias are beginning to surround the city.
		Families in the same villages throughout the colonies are taking sides: some say our parents and we have always been Englishmen and will always be loyal subjects to the Crown, while their neighbors are saying we must break away from England.
		1) Colonies are not repaying England for the money spent protecting colonists in the recent war with the French and Indians, and for the military protection that continues even now.
	www.coollessons.org /revolutionarywarwebquest.htm (950 words)

	Osprey Men-at-Arms 372 : Colonial American Troops (2) 1610-1774
		In the absence of more than tiny forces of European troops it was the colonists themselves who had to bear the brunt of the periodic fighting.
		Remote forts were planted on the vital waterways and along the advancing frontiers, and these were often the objectives of long, dangerous expeditions through the wilderness.
		Larger European forces were shipped out to settle forever the colonial dominance of North America, leading to such dramatic clashes as Braddock's Massacre, the failed British attack on Montcalm's Fort Ticonderoga, the massacre at Fort William Henry, and Wolfe's decisive victory at Quebec in 1759.
	www.militaryfocus.com /osprey/men-at-arms/372.htm (324 words)

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