English Hunting Guns Unlike New France, the British Colonies were established to send raw materials back to the mother country and then to serve as a market for its finished goods.

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

Dunmore’s War quieted the American frontier for the two critical years in which the colonies united to fight a national war for independence.

New France, as this land was once called, consisted of five colonies that covered a massive swath of North America, stretching from Hudson Bay in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

Why Natchitoches is dubbed the "Little France of America" While New Orleans is famed for its French influence, Natchitoches has retained a more intimate connection to its colonial roots.

The new French colonial policy is this: a clearer realization than ever before that the colonizing nation's sole aim is to transform the colonized areas into states which will some day be its own ...

Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.

"They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France.

Today, we will see how two of their squadrons also carried out a daring naval raid against French and English colonies in America, briefly reclaiming the New Netherlands.

France, having no tobacco-growing colonies, had to pay a premium to England to import fine flavored powder. The English forbade their colonies to sell tobacco outside the British empire.