Thiswas initially a British settlement;

这最初是英国的解决办法；

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Newcastle's love affair with coal is almost as old as British settlement of Australia.

纽卡斯尔与煤炭的亲密关系，几乎与英国殖民澳大利亚的历史一样悠久。

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The first British settlement, a penal colony at Fort Jackson (now part of Sydney), was established in 788.

英国于788年在杰克逊堡（现悉尼一部分）建立第一块流放殖民者居住地。

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He was a wealthy British investor who supported the settlement of Roanoke Island.

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Until about twenty years ago, the entire Australian continent was considered to have been, for legal purposes, terra nullius, land belonging to no one, at the moment British settlement began.

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At the time, Shanghai was divided into three parts: the Chinese city, the British-led International Settlement and the French Concession, the latter two legacies of the Opium Wars in the 19th century.

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Between 1936 and 1939, the Arabs of Palestine rebelled so violently against British rule and Jewish settlement that they drove government forces to evacuate Beersheba and Jericho, and put Haifa under siege.

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