It accused the colonial government, for example, of not doing enough to protect ships from pirates.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Objects from the colonial period include an Indian smoking pipe.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

In eighteen ninety-five, Cuban rebels revolted against the colonial government.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The newspaper had criticized the colonial governor.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Europeans moved to colonial America in part to escape religious oppression.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

As a result,he says other objects from colonial life may be under the waters of the Roanoke Sound.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The National Park Service says early colonial settlers and land developers thought the Everglades had little value.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

On July fourth,seventeen seventy-six, colonial leaders approved the final Declaration of Independence for the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

They said colonial policies violated important democratic ideas upon which the United States had been built.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

But later, during the American Revolution, colonial troops fought against the British at Fort Ticonderoga.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The name comes from the Boston Tea Party, a colonial tax protest in seventeen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

Dating back to colonial times, the government has supported programs to train skilled workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

He says the idea came from England, America's former colonial power.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

While there,the soldiers apparently dug for evidence of colonial life.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

France helped the American colonial armies defeat the British.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The video for "Liberian Girl" assembles some of what were then Hollywood's biggest names on the set of a colonial-era movie about Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

During the French colonial era, about one million pepper plants were grown in the province, mainly to produce pepper for export to France.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

These delicately carved houseboats have been moored along the tranquil waters of Dal Lake and Nagin Lake of Srinagar since British colonial days.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

He said the water was as high as four meters. Indonesian authorities say torrential rains were too much for the Dutch colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The United Nations,African Union, the United States and former colonial power France have all criticized President Tandja's move to tighten his grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

He said this was because it had not taken part in the 1970s anti-colonial war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Other nations have been paying money to Libya, including the United States, compensation for its attacks on the nation,and Italy, to atone for its brutal colonial rule.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Tim Suthpin is the director of historic programs at colonial Williamsburg.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

"Yes,a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict, and the West has often approached Africa as a patron and a source of resources, rather than a partner.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Colonial Williamsburg consists of 120 hectares of authentic and restored buildings and landmarks dating to the Revolutionary War and even back further - to the first British settlers who started a plantation and later built the colony.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03