British India (today known as India‚ Pakistan‚ Bangladesh) was controlled by Britain and thus India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939. The British Raj‚ as a possession of Great Britain‚ formed part of theAllied Nations and sent over two and a half million volunteer soldiers to fight under British command against the Axis powers. Additionally‚ several IndianPrincely States provided large donations to support the Allied campaign during the War. India also provided the base for
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RULES GOVERNING SHIPMENT BY SEA: HAGUE RULES‚ HAGUE-VISBY RULES AND HAMBURG RULES The nature of the Hague-Visby Rules was discussed by the House of Lords in The Hollandia [1983] AC 565 (HL). The plaintiffs (shippers) shipped a piece of road-finishing machinery on board a Dutch vessel‚ ‘The Morviken’‚ belonging to the defendant carriers to Bonaire in the Dutch West Indies. The bill of lading issued in England limited the carriers liability to Dutch Florins 1‚250 ($250) which was less than the 10
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the colonies were causing‚ but I had not expected it to be such a serious matter. When I had heard you would be traveling across the pond to broaden your horizons I never thought anything such as this could happen. Perhaps you should come back to Newcastle with the next available ship? As to insure your safety of course. As for your comments of whether the colonies should actually separate from Great Britain do not be absurd. The colonies are still very young and small if it were not for Britain
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and for better opportunities. The colonists‚ however‚ were being ruled by a country an ocean away‚ and after years of development and flourishing under Britain’s rule‚ they were prepared both economically as well as politically to cut off British rule to gain the independence that would be theirs through rebellions‚ and eventually a revolution. Colonial self-rule‚ the Great Awakening‚ and the consequences of the French Indian War caused these English colonists to begin moving in the direction of
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Spanish colonies were able to flourish in the new world even though they differed in motives for colonization and social layout; yet both colonies were similar to each other in the fact that they had common economies and like ways of treating the indigenous population. Once they established land in the new world‚ each country was able to find a new source of wealth‚ either from precious metals or from building necessities such as lumber. Seemingly‚ the British and Spanish colonies were some of the strongest
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failed due to the area in which the settlers chose to place their new settlement and the Virginia Company. Colonists set foot in North America in 1607‚ “the colonists established Jamestown on a site they chose mainly for its easy defense” (Hewitt‚ & Lawson‚ 2017‚ p. 46). The Englishmen were only looking out for their best interest in choosing a place that was easy to defend. These new colonists probably did not realize their mistake at first in placing Jamestown in this certain area‚ “A shortage of
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Death Penalty Justified or Not? When people sit back and think about the death penalty‚ they begin to either get offended or deeply saddened as to their thoughts on the death penalty. One may feel as if the death penalty is cruel and just plain wrong‚ where as another person may feel as if the death penalty is a good punishment but is not being used as much as it should be. The arguments based upon the idea of the death penalty would be as such‚ the death penalty was put into place to execute a
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misconception that early Europeans were the first to settle in North America‚ however Native Americans had inhabited the land for hundreds‚ even thousands of years‚ long before it was conquered and settled. When Christopher Columbus first discovered the ‘New World’ he also found that land had around two million inhabitants. He thought he had uncovered a new route to the East‚ so he mistakenly called these people ‘Indians’. Within the next hundred years‚ Europeans were trying to settle in the Americas
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power: Meiji Restoration of 1868 -Tokugawa Shogunate came to an end and Emperor come back into rule. -Through modernization and industrialization‚ Japan became militarily and economically strengthened -The military supported the emperor closely -The emperor became the most powerful political figure in Japan due to the changes he made Japanese historical and cultural legacies -The people were open to strong military leader’s influence of political events due to the precedent set during the
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compared with £29‚000 for existing Heathrow cabin crew. That programme should yield £160m annual savings within a decade.“I think there is no question that it is a victory for British Airways but it comes at a cost‚” said Douglas McNeill‚ at Charles Stanley Securities.Andrew Lobbenberg at RBS said “the economics of the dispute were won by BA about nine months ago” and it had gained “the credibility of being firm”. | Unread (Ft.com)Public View‚ Banks | May 12‚ 2011 | Union welcomes BA deal that avoids
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