British Colonization of the Americas - Hudson's Bay Company, History of the Bahamas, History of Trinidad and Tobago (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 103. Chapters: Hudson's Bay Company, History of the Bahamas, History of Trinidad and Tobago, History of Antigua and Barbuda, History of the Falkland Islands, Roanoke Colony, History of the British Virgin Islands, The Canadas, History of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Rupert's Land, British Honduras, British Overseas Territories, Expulsion of the Acadians, Nootka Crisis, Canada under British Imperial control, New Albion, Slavery in the British Virgin Islands, English Revolution in the Colonies, Columbia District, Slavery in the British and French Caribbean, Nootka Sound, History of the British West Indies, Assiento, Colony of British Columbia, Province of Quebec, St. George's, Bermuda, British America, United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, British North America, Tobacco colonies, Charter colony, Proprietary colony, List of colonial heads of Saint Christopher, North-Western Territory, Gray Lock, List of colonial heads of the British Virgin Islands, List of colonial heads of Nevis, List of colonists at Roanoke, Elizabeth Island, Treaty of Lochaber. Excerpt: The history of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: ) goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century. Nonetheless, the islands have been a matter of controversy, as they have been claimed by the French, Spaniards, British and Argentines at various points. The extinct warrah is sometimes taken as evidence of pre-European discovery.The Falkland Islands were uninhabited when discovered by Europeans, but recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia (on the southern half of East Falkland) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide strong evidence that they had been visited previously, most likely by the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego. It has also been suggested that the Falkland Island foxes, or warra...