Canada quickly expanded as Britain...
The threat posed by the Alaska...
While the Canadians were expanding...
In 1874, gold was discovered in the...
The 1849 Mexican-American War had...
By the 1870s polar exploration was...
In the Canadian northwest, tensions...
By 1890, American Indian resistance...
For more than a century, Denmark's...
In 1894 Nicaragua annexed the...
On 16 August 1896 gold was...
By 1898, the long-running Cuban war...