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The Swedish colonial empire in North America, established in 1638 by a military party on the site of what is now Wilmington, Del., never extended farther than Trenton, N.J., and Cape Henlopen on ...
It had been a colonial empire. But it was only very short-lived ... Even though the colony was Swedish, the first expedition, in 1637 had been led by a Dutchman, Peter Minuit. Soon after reaching in ...
BRIDGETON -- It was April 15, 1988, at 8:30 in the morning when King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden arrived at the replica of a Swedish colonial farm to celebrate the 350th ...
Ahead of that occasion, and in conjunction with Bridgeton’s on-going sister city program with Eskilstuna, two 17-year-olds from Sweden heard from members of the New Sweden Colonial Farmstead ...
Tarzan and Captain America may seem like an unlikely pair to offer insights into the colonial empire of the United States, but they appear midway through “American Empire: A Global History ...
THE survey of Colonial research in the British Empire prepared by Dr. Lucy Mair (Agenda for October) is of particular interest at the present moment. Under the Colonial Research Committee ...