Sentence examples for English traders from inspiring English sources

English traders followed, and the island was annexed (1893) by the British as part of the Solomon Islands Protectorate.

English traders and explorers from Carolina had, since its founding in 1670, already established a substantial trading network across the southeastern part of the continent that extended all the way to the Mississippi.

English traders and fishermen had daily contact with indigenous persons but lived on ships or in segregated enclaves on land where salt-dried codfish stations (favored by the English) were built along Massachusetts Bay.

Dutch and English traders later traveled in the vicinity.

Indians native to the region when Dutch and English traders arrived were Iroquoian-speaking Erie.

However, as English traders and hunters became land-hungry settlers, the Cherokee came to see them as a threat.

Seeds for rubber trees had been smuggled out of Brazil by an English trader in 1876, and eventually rubber plantations were established in British territories in Sri Lanka and Africa, where trees proved more productive.

The battle was "a very greate overthrowe" for the English, as noted by the affluent English trader Sir Christopher Hoddesdon in a letter written in Antwerp on 15 October.

An English trader, Charles Ledger, and his Amerindian servant spent four years collecting cinchona seeds in the Andes in Bolivia, highly prized for their quinine but whose export was prohibited.

Although the Shogunate had no intention of enforcing it, the order nevertheless inspired attacks against the Shogunate itself and against foreigners in Japan: the most famous incident was that of the English trader Charles Lennox Richardson, for whose death the Tokugawa government had to pay an indemnity of one hundred thousand British pounds.

They were known among English colonial traders as Flatheads because, like a number of other tribes of the Southeast, they practiced ritual head flattening on male infants.