11.   Along the way you must trade with Native Americans, build armies and eventually attract enough patriotic colonists to revolt against the colonial power.

12.   And in much of the rest of East Asia it was dictated by governments that brooked no opposition from former colonial powers.

13.   And there are other members whose boundaries and identities were carved out of the map by the colonial powers of Europe for their own administrative and imperial conveniences.

14.   A strong showing against England, its former colonial power, was the last opportunity.

15.   African money was always an extremely valuable commodity, which the colonial powers sought to make profitable for themselves.

16.   African governments are quick to malign developed nations and former colonial powers for past transgressions, imagined or real.

17.   African nations have undergone name changes by the dozens, most of them to cast off names imposed by colonial powers.

18.   Britain, the former colonial power in Sierra Leone, similarly did not offer to send in troops as peacekeepers there.

19.   But Algeria has been less of a concern for Washington than for the European Union and particularly for France, its former colonial power.

20.   But the political impact was lessened by benefits that both colonial powers have traditionally bestowed on their subjects there.