United Colonies

The United Colonies may mean:

  • The United Colonies of New England or New England Confederation, a 17th-century political and military alliance between the British New England
  • The United Colonies of North America (the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America)
  • The United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, a 19th-century union between the British colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Famous quotes containing the words united and/or colonies:

    “I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
    —Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    “What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)