In 1681 William Penn was awarded a royal charter by King Charles II to found Province of Pennsylvania. In 1674, the Province of New Jersey was split off from New York. The British created the Province of New York from the conquered Dutch colony of New Netherland. Finally came the Province of Georgia in 1732 founded and controlled by James Oglethorpe. The Province of New Hampshire was founded in 1691. Later came the founding of Province of Carolina (1663) (divided in 1729 into the Province of North Carolina and the Province of South Carolina). Smaller colonies followed in Province of Maine (1622), Province of Maryland (1632), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1636) and Connecticut Colony (1636). In 1630 the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony they emphasize not only a pure religiosity, but also education and entrepreneurship. By 1624, the Colony and Dominion of Virginia ceased to be a charter colony administered by the Virginia Company of London and became a crown colony. See also: Thirteen Colonies, Colonial history of the United States, and British colonization of the AmericasĪfter several failed attempts, the first permanent English settlement in mainland North America was established in 1607 at Jamestown in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.
In long-term perspective, the historian Paul Johnson has called the United Kingdom–United States relations "cornerstone of the modern, democratic world order". As of January 2015, the United Kingdom was fifth in terms of exports and seventh in terms of import of goods. goods and the principal exporter of goods to the United States. Canada has historically been the largest importer of U.S. In the early 21st century, Britain affirmed its relationship with the United States as its "most important bilateral partnership" in the current British foreign policy, and the American foreign policy also affirms its relationship with Britain as its most important relationship, as evidenced in aligned political affairs, mutual cooperation in the areas of trade, commerce, finance, technology, academics, as well as the arts and sciences the sharing of government and military intelligence, and joint combat operations and peacekeeping missions carried out between the United States Armed Forces and the British Armed Forces. Today, large numbers of expatriates live in both countries. They are bound together by shared history, an overlap in religion, common language, legal system and kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among English Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, Cornish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Irish Americans, and American Britons. Since 1940 the countries have been close military allies enjoying the Special Relationship built as wartime allies and NATO partners. The United States surpassed its former parent as the world's leading power during the World Wars, having overshadowed it economically from the late 19th century. The 13 British colonies that seceded from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776 fought a subsequent revolutionary war and a theatre of the Napoleonic Wars in 1812. Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have ranged from close allies to military opponents since the latter declared independence from the former in the late 18th century. A view towards the British Virgin Islands from the US Virgin Islands.
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