They used English ships to transport goods to non-British colonies.

他们用英国船只把货物运送到非英属殖民地。

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This convention expanded to discussions of the possibility of all the British colonies uniting into one nation.

大会广泛讨论了联合所有英属殖民地联合建立一个国家的可能性。

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Some recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists.

一些近代历史学家指出，从1763年左右至1789年的美洲英属殖民地内生活的最明显特点是殖民者的内部冲突。

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They found it easy to settle in a country that, until seventeen seventy-six, was a collection of British colonies.

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Troops from the English colonies that would become the United States supported the British army in the war.

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They represent the thirteen original colonies that rebelled against British rule.

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Unlike states that began as British colonies with some representative government, democracy bypassed Louisiana under French and Spanish rule.

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Ten British colonies formed a pre-independence Federation of the West Indies in 1958.

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Yet again, this 54-member organisation - mainly former British colonies - is confronting divisions in its ranks on human rights.

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