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royal colony: Definition and Pronunciation ... 1. a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state. 2. Amer. Hist.a colony, as New York, administered by a royal governor and council appointed by the British crown, and having a representative...
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British overseas territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The British overseas territories are fourteen territories that are under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, but which do not form part of the United Kingdom itself. The name "British overseas te...
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a colony governed directly by a king or queen in other countries. Ex; King Louis XIV lives in France and governs it too. King Louis XIV also governs New France but does not live there. That is an example of a royal colony, a colony that is ...
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In 1624, the English monarch began to change the colonies into royal colonies. Such colonies were under the direct control of the monarch. By the end of the colonial period, only Connecticut and Rhode Island remained corporate colonies, and just Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were still proprietary.
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With the exception of New France, established as a French royal colony in 1608, and several of the Caribbean islands, all of the original seventeenth-century Dutch and English colonies were corporate or proprietary.
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In 1609, a second colony was unintentionally established in Bermuda (as an extension of Virginia), which, with the loss of the American ... Bermuda - became the primary Royal Navy base in the Western Hemisphere, following US independence. The Naval establishment included an admiralty, a dockyard, and a naval squadron.
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5. royal colony: A colony over which the king of England assumed control, granting it a royal charter in place of the charter it previously held. Not an act of tyranny, as often pictured, royalization guaranteed that England's laws (and English subjects' rights) would apply to colony and colonists.
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