Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (, born 4 January 1942) is a Kuwaiti politician and the Prime Minister of Kuwait since 2011. Previously he served as Minister of Defense as well as Deputy Prime Minister. Jaber was first appointed as Prime Minister on 4 December 2011. A year later, on 5 December 2012, he was reappointed as Prime Minister following the parliamentary election held on 1 December 2012. He was re-appointed in the same position on November 1, 2017 when an Amiri Order was issued to appoint him as the Prime Minister, and mandate him to
British colonization of the Americas Rupert's Land. The small part of the Hudson Bay drainage south of the 49th parallel went to the United States in the Anglo-American Convention of 1818. Thirteen of Great Britain's colonies rebelled in the American Revolutionary War, beginning in 1775, primarily over representation, local laws and tax issues, and established the United States of America, which was recognised internationally with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on 3 September 1783. Great Britain also colonised the west coast of North America, indirectly via the Hudson's Bay Company licenses west of the Rocky Mountains: the Columbia District and New Caledonia fur