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- English_overseas_possessions abstract "The English overseas possessions comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonized, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the former Kingdom of England during the centuries before the Acts of Union between England and the Kingdom of Scotland. In 1707 these created the Kingdom of Great Britain, when the many English possessions became the foundation of the British Empire.The first English overseas settlements were established in Ireland, quickly followed by North America, Bermuda, and the West Indies, and by trading posts called \"factories\" in the East Indies, such as Bantam, and in the Indian subcontinent, beginning with Surat. In 1639, a series of English fortresses on the Indian coast was initiated with Fort St George. In 1661, the marriage of King Charles II to Catherine of Braganza brought him as part of her dowry new possessions which had been Portuguese, including Tangier in North Africa and Bombay in India.In North America, Newfoundland and Virginia were the first centres of English colonization. As the 17th century wore on, Maine, Plymouth, New Hampshire, Salem, Massachusetts Bay, New Scotland, Connecticut, New Haven, Maryland, and Rhode Island and Providence were settled. In 1664, New Netherland and New Sweden were taken from the Dutch, becoming New York, New Jersey, and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.".
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink 38th_parallel_north.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Acts_of_Union_1707.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Ad_hoc.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Angevin_Empire.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Anglo–Spanish_War_(1585–1604).
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Anguilla.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink António,_Prior_of_Crato.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Ascension_Island.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Baffin_Island.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Bangladesh.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Banten_(town).
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Barbados.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Bartholomew_Gosnold.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Bengal.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Bermuda.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Blackwall,_London.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Board_of_Trade.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Bombay_Presidency.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink British_Bencoolen.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink British_Guiana.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink British_Isles.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink British_Overseas_Territories.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink California.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Cambriol.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Horn.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_colonization_of_the_Americas.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Cayman_Islands.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Channel_Islands.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Charles_II_of_England.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Charter.
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- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Chennai.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink China.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Christopher_Columbus.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_England.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Circumnavigation.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink City_of_London.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Colony.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_Rhode_Island_and_Providence_Plantations.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_Virginia.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Company_of_Scotland.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Connecticut.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Connecticut_Colony.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Coromandel_Coast.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Corporate_spin-off.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Crown_colony.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Crown_land.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Cupers_Cove.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Cuttyhunk_Island.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Delaware.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Delaware_Colony.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Dharavi.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Dominion_of_Newfoundland.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Dowry.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Duchy_of_Normandy.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Duke_of_Normandy.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_East_India_Company.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_colonization_of_the_Americas.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink East_Hampton_(town),_New_York.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink East_India_Company.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink East_Indies.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink East_Jersey.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Edward_John_Payne.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink El_Dorado.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Eleuthera.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Eleutheran_Adventurers.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Elizabeth_I_of_England.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Elizabeth_Island_(Cape_Horn).
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Elizabeth_Islands.
- English_overseas_possessions wikiPageWikiLink Elizabethan_era.