9 sentences with 'colony'
Example sentences and phrases with the word colony and other words derived from it.
• « Hernán Cortés was able to achieve the surrender of the surviving Aztec forces by 1522 and founded the Spanish colony of New Spain in central Mexico. »
• « The Dutch were also the only European power allowed to maintain a small trading colony in Japan, which was otherwise completely cut off from Westerners after 1641 (thanks to a failed Portuguese-sponsored Christian uprising against the Japanese shogun). »
• « Simultaneously, a French explorer named Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec on the St. Lawrence River. »
• « That colony soon became the centre of New France, and its trade "harvest" consisted of furs obtained through barter with Native American groups or taken by French trappers. »
• « The French Caribbean colonies, especially their sugar plantation colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), produced enormous wealth for the French state and for numerous slave plantation owners and their French trading partners. »
• « The Assembly struggled desperately to maintain control of the situation, hoping in part to win free people of colour in the colony to fight alongside white plantation owners to maintain control. »
• « Whole countries sometimes became economic appendages of a European empire, producing a single product: for a time, New Zealand (which became a British colony in 1840) was essentially the sheep ranch of the British Empire. »
• « After the wars, the Italian south was treated almost as a colony rather than a full-fledged part of the Italian nation, and politics in the south revolved around the growing relationship between the official Italian government and (from the 1880s onwards) organised crime. »
• « Perhaps the most emblematic example was Belgian King Leopold II's personal obsession with the creation of a Belgian colony in Africa, which he thought would elevate Belgium's status in Europe (and from which he could reap huge profits). In the end, his personal fiefdom - the Congo Free State - would become the most horrendous demonstration of the mismatch between the lofty "civilising mission" and the reality of carnage and exploitation. »