Groot had the capacity and the fire to resist an English attempt at taking over the Boer republics.

Unaware that the fake Archbishop is dead, English attempts to verify his claim by pulling at the Archbishop's face, believing it to be a mask.

He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Armada.

The first English attempt at settlement had been in Newfoundland, which would not join the Confederation until 1949.

An Oxford-educated soldier, courtier, and businessman, Gilbert also played a hand in the earliest English attempts at colonization.

The first English attempt to colonize America was an inglorious failure.

Because of these dangers, there would be no English attempts on these ports until Napoleonic times.

In 1687 an English attempt to resettle Fort Albany failed due to ruses and deceptions by d'Iberville.

If only the English attempt to legislate against slow over rates was backed up with a different small-print.

He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World.