The Royal Navy's ironclads only saw action as part of colonial battles or one-sided engagements like the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
Support a military engagement by the former colonial power, or turn down an explicit request for help from Mali's Muslim, civilian, transitional government?
Under William I and after the Union, engagement in continental and colonial wars led to heavier existing taxes and new taxes, including the Poll and Hearth Taxes.
Nevertheless, this engagement signaled the beginning of colonial combat between the French and English, which by 1755 had erupted into open war.
This was the South African 1st Infantry Brigade's first engagement, and some of the colonials blacked up and imitated Zulu battle cries and war dances.
Their Nestor thus emphasized the non-partisan nature of their civic engagement, à propos of post-colonial labour conflicts: 'We were told that, being a civil servant, don't indulge yourself into politics' (Retired technologist, 24 March 2001).
Pieter Hugo describes his new series, Kin, currently on show at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, as "an engagement with the failure of the South African colonial experiment and my sense of being colonial driftwood".
Other successful uses were by the Dutch colonial services in Celebes and by Russia in a number of engagements in the Turkistan War.
New York City has never stood out for its civic stripes: The Dutch colonials, with a nose for commerce and an indifference to political engagement, may be thanked for that.
The paper carried the first eyewitness account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War, and the reports helped to solidify colonial resistance to British rule.
