The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do without. In 1862, one member of parliament expressed the views held by ...

By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is ... mid-Atlantic coast of North America that seeded both the British Empire and the ...

1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields. 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775 ...

It was passed to raise additional federal revenue to fund the war against the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1862 is notable for introducing the ...

Indeed, it is not to be lost sight of that the manner in which England and English policy are still regarded in the North shows that the fact of our making any proposition, however good ...

Façade of Canvas house in Toronto. Image © Younes Bounhar and Teddy Shropshire via Archdaily Leah Wulfman Poster Image. Image Courtesy of Architectural League Prize ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown ... Canada is the Donnie Creek fire in British Columbia which is now blazing over ...

More than 200 years after the British tried to settle in the area, the Freedman’s Colony was established in 1862, during the American ... routes along the coast of South America, the Caribbean, and ...

Despite its seclusion and sparse population, this vast expanse of North America - larger in size than ... an expert in Arctic affairs at the University of British Columbia, said that while ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...