the colonization of the Americas was one
of the most major events that the world
has ever seen it was one of if not the
main forests that changed the dynamic of
power back in the old world bring the
concept of colonial conquest and
settlement back as a focus for many
nations to undertake while the colonial
Adventures of nations such as Britain
France Spain the Netherlands and
Portugal are rather well known many
other nations throughout the centuries
attended their own colonial ventures to
varying degrees of success in this video
we'll be looking into some of these
nations
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the first nation that we will look at is
Austria the Austrian Empire had not
attempted to establish colonies during
his existence being focused on regional
control in the Holy Roman Empire the
Balkans and Eastern Europe Austria also
lacked the naval capabilities to project
power outside of the Adriatic
nevertheless Austria and later
austria-hungary tried to establish
overseas colonies throughout the 18th
and 19th century the Kaiser liquor
austin their company was founded in the
Austrian Netherlands in 1722 the company
set up two colonies in India which was
one in present-day Cologne and another
in each a poor while the company held a
few ships in the region it transported
nearly 7 million pounds of tea from
China into Europe between the years of
1723 and 1728 amounting to nearly half
of all tea imported the company was
abandoned in the second Treaty of Vienna
in 1731 in 1775 a new Austrian East
India Company was founded by the name of
the Antwerp company in Austin increased
two years later a small fort was created
on Manabu Bay which had been abandoned
earlier by the Dutch the fort was later
occupied by the Portuguese as the
Austrians lacked the naval arm to
protect the fort
later they also claimed the nicobar
islands in the Indian Ocean as an
imperial colony the austrian government
didn't give this colony much in the way
of support however and the columns left
on the island chain eventually ended up
dying from the lack of food and water
this combined with pressure from other
European powers led to Maria Teresa
dissolving the triest
East India Company in 1783 and
eventually abandoning all claims during
the 19th century the Navy made a few
expeditions with the intent of look
for potential colonies such as ones in
Borneo Guadalcanal and China but in both
Borneo and Guadalcanal the Austrian
expeditions were being backed by heavy
indigenous resistance and no further
attempts were made as a result of the
boxer revolution in China and
austria-hungarian participation in the
eight-nation alliance the audience got a
small concession in tan Jean
unlike other colonial powers the
austro-hungarians gave the population
citizenship when the Chinese entered the
war against the Empire in 1917 the
concession was quickly taken and the
peace treaty in 1919 forced them to
renounce all claims the next nation will
be looking at is the Duchy of Courland
coal land had a population of only
200,000 and he was a vessel of the
pollen of the way nian Commonwealth
under duke jacob Kettler the duchy
established one of the larger merged
Marines in the whole of europe and the
cities of Ventspils and la paya acted as
its main harbors the first attempt at a
colony which tried in Tobago in 1637
this colonial attempt was defeated by
the Spanish in the region they attempted
again two years later which is Spanish
aidid and eventually starved out
the colonists three years after that two
ships with about 300 settlers attempted
to settle on the north coast near coral
and Bay this colony was again blockaded
but proved more successful missionaries
among the native Carib tribes armed the
natives to attack the settlement which
was eventually abandoned underground
with other Protestant powers colons
attention shifted to Africa in 1651 the
Duchy gained its first successful colony
in Africa on kunta kinte
island in the Gambian River they also
established another colony in
present-day Banjul the modern Campion
capital
the colonies were lost from neighboring
nations took advantage of courland
during the northern wars Tobago was
returned to : after the war with the
Duchy abandonded in 1666 with an attempt
to retake it two years later ending in
failure three decades after that the
island was sold to the British to pay
off some of the debt that the Duke had
acquired Denmark along with her sister
kingdom of Norway have established
colonies during the Viking Age in both
Iceland and Greenland events in the
homeland during the Kalmar Union after
largely distracted the Danish from
attempting to establish overseas
colonies as well as an overall lack of
population King Christian the fourth
have originally granted authorization to
establish a Danish East Indies company
but the involvement in the 30 Years War
heavily drained interest in the idea
they stirred colonies on the uninhabited
islands of st. Thomas and st. John in
the mid in late 17th century attempting
to tap into the wealth of the very
profitable triangle trade the alator
purchasing qua from France in 1733 the
Virgin Islands in the Caribbean were
divided into two one British and the
other Danish the islands were run by the
Danish East India and Guinea company
until 1755 when King Frederick v bought
the two companies sugarcane drove the
islands economy which was largely driven
by slave labor
although the slave trade was abolished
in 1803 slavery itself on the islands
were not abolished until 1848 in a
response to massive slave revolts and
protests the colony reached his largest
population in the 1850s after which an
economic downturn increased emigration
and the population dropped at just as
sugar prices as a whole this decline
continued until after the islands
purchased by the United States in 1917
from the beginning of the French
colonization efforts members of the
Knights of Malta have been predominant
members in the established colony
during the 1600s the order was mostly
made up of French aristocrats and many
French naval officers had trained with
the hospital turn Navy they had a pretty
deep connection within the French
colonial government during this time as
well feel a Point C was the main
individual that drove the Knights
colonization efforts team louis xiii
appointed poinsy as lieutenant governor
over the whole creepin colonies and he
started to establish french rule over a
number of islands he started the
establishment of the first European
settlement unsanctified in me in 1648
and founded a settlement on sank qua two
years later he sent men to reinforce and
take over a small French settlement on
saint martine establishing the border
between French and Dutch sections on the
islands which is still in place today
the French company in the Caribbean was
dissolved in 1651
in which the Order of Malta ended up
buying the islands of st. Bart tilted me
st. Christopher st. Croix and st.
martine these islands were still
technically under French control but the
Knights were in control of the local
islands government in the 1660s the
order gave up the claims to the islands
citing lack of economic value in
difficulty in controlling them so the
owner after some internal fighting was
reverted back to French control the last
nation we'll be looking at is Sweden
SUIM during this time head reaches
territorial height in Europe and sought
to establish colonies in the New World
the Swedish South Company was formed in
1626 with the goal of establishing a
colony sour between Florida and
Newfoundland this company set up a
colony on both sides of the Delaware
River
in 1633 land imprisoned by Delaware
Pennsylvania and New Jersey with a
building of two forts in the area for
Christina and fort Trinity the colony
was prosperous throughout the 1640s
blacked much in the way of support from
the mainland in terms of military
defense in 1655 at the start of the
second northern war
the Swedish colony was captured by the
Dutch in the region but were given local
autonomy for another decade a colonial
effort in the Gold Coast was also
established in 1650 a few forts and
trade ports were set up in the colony
but alike to turn over too much of a
profit when the Danish took control the
fort in 1658 this was fused as a pretext
dig into new fighting in the second
northern war while the colony was placed
back under the control the Swedes the
Danes managed to take it over three
years later in regards to the Caribbean
gustave the third of Sweden attracted by
the ONS prosperity during the American
Revolution agreed to exchange French
trading rights in Gomberg for Swizz
colonization of the island in addition
to its freshwater resources the eye
produced moderate amount of sugar cocoa
tobacco and fruits flawed policy revenue
from trade throats natural harbours on
the islands west coast while the colony
was possible during the early 19th
century it gradually lost its importance
as a free port losing even more value
when slavery was outlawed on the island
and the population started to decline
heavily the island was sold back to the
French in 1877 putting in the final end
to Swedish colonial interests I hope you
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