Flat Holm is Wales' most southerly point and is next to the privately-owned English island of Steep Holm.
This is a guest post by Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
Later, after the English seized the island from the French in 1810, and abolished slavery in 1835, indentured workers were shipped in their tens of thousands from India and China, each bringing their own cultures and traditions to add to the mix.
Joanne Pezzolo, a high-school English teacher from Staten Island, said she would jump at the chance to take a buyout.
Dhone, commander of the island's militia, grew concerned about the loss of traditional rights and when the English Parliament sent a fleet to the island he seized his opportunity, and negotiated its surrender in exchange for guarantees of these rights.
In 1602, a band of English built a fort on the island of Cuttyhunk.
Sheila Collis, of English-speaking Canary Islands newspaper Island Connections, said Tenerife's steady climate offered an outdoor lifestyle not available in Britain.
An English entrepreneur, living on the Portuguese island of Madeira, said "the future looks very, very bleak and panic is in the air".
The team from the University of Rennes in France say they found the crystal while examining the wreck of a British ship sunk off the island of Alderney - in the English Channel - in 1592.
Statehood or no, there are plans for English-language science and mathematics classes in the island's schools.
During our conversation the manager explained he was born and raised on the large island of Madagascar (where French, English and Malagasy languages are spoken), off the southeastern coast of Africa, and later attended a Paris university before joining the U.S. chip firm.
The island has two official languages, French and English, and many of the older laws are still written in French.
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Other colonial powers vied for control of the increasingly-prosperous sugar-producing island, and it came under brief periods of English rule in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The English, starting out as those Angles and Saxons, conquered the rest of the island archipelago.
All of which, of course, is exactly what has come to be expected of the Hamptons, a broad term applied to the preppy towns, villages and hamlets at the East End of Long Island, originally settled by the Montaukett tribe of Native Americans, then seized by English colonists in the mid-17th century.
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