11. Successive governments viewed colonial expansion as economically and politically risky and fundamentally unrewarding. 12. French colonial expansion was not limited to the New World, however. 13. Wilhelm II instead adopted a very aggressive policy of colonization and colonial expansion . 14. With British colonial expansion from the 17th century onwards, Anglicanism spread across the globe. 15. He also promoted friendship with Britain and sponsored colonial expansion , notably the conquest of Algeria. 16. One of the major concerns for the British government of the era was colonial expansion . 17. But with the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, colonial expansion slowed. 18. That submission paved the way for Dutch colonial expansion into the land of the Khoikhoi. 19. He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion . 20. The borders of present-day Indonesia were formed through colonial expansion finalised in the 20th century.
