Sentence examples for colonial frontier from inspiring English sources

The Indian coalition, having come under the leadership of the Narragansett sachem, Canonchet, then embarked on a late-winter offensive in 1676 that pushed back most of the colonial frontier in the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Rhode Island colonies.

The interior regions of Washington's personality began to take shape within the interior regions of the colonial frontier.

During the 18th century Santa Fe served as the administrative, military, and missionary headquarters of a vast, sparsely populated Spanish colonial frontier province.

The Crow began to suffer high losses from the Blackfoot and Dakota Sioux as the American colonial frontier expanded and drove those tribes into Crow country.

As a result of his work in Ireland he decided he wanted to go to a colonial frontier and in 1969 made his first major trip to Canada.

It had begun on the colonial frontier, where the population was sparse and the arm of the law did not reach.

British traders soon crossed colonial frontiers and were at Shaka's court by the early 1820s.

These days, the Cold War referees have withdrawn and the old protocols that preserved the inviolability of colonial frontiers have fallen away.

Culture and technology at all levels were transformed by the war and colonial frontiers redrawn, with Irish independence signposting the future decline of empire.

With the discovery of gold, the remaining independent African polities south of the Limpopo were conquered and annexed, and both within and beyond colonial frontiers concessionaires were spurred by prospects of further discoveries and the availability of speculative capital.

Although they were among the fiercest groups on the colonial frontiers of Mexico and the United States, and perhaps because of their confidence in their own military prowess, the Apache initially attempted to be friends of the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans.