Sentence examples for In the cession from inspiring English sources

The Mille Lac reservation, although included in the cession of 1863, was again included in the cession under the act of 1889.

The governors of the Johor sultanate were recognized as independent by the British in the cession of Singapore (1819).

A brief peace made with Stephen in 1136 resulted in the cession of Cumberland to David and the transfer of Huntingdon to his son Earl Henry.

Still, one reason that many far-right conservatives in Britain despise Churchill to this day is that they view his decision to wage total war as having resulted in the cession of the empire to America.

Cleon made steep demands, including (in effect) the cession of Megara, showing that he like Nicias in 427 and Demosthenes and Hippocrates in 424 grasped the strategic importance of Megara, even if the historian Thucydides did not.

In accepting the cession to Prussia of the greater part of the left bank of the Rhine, however, Talleyrand created a serious danger for France that became especially clear in 1870, 1914, and 1939.

As is well known, the territory now included within the State of Illinois was part of the territory of the United States p28 northwest of the Ohio River, called the "North West Territory," ceded to the United States by Virginia in 1784, by Massachusetts in 1785 and by Connecticut in 1786, the cessions by the last two states being of tracts less than 2° in width.

Most of the fighting was done in Europe, however, and the English victories there enabled them, by the Treaty of Utrecht that concluded the war, to recover Hudson Bay, limit French rights in Newfoundland, force the cession of Acadia (without Cape Breton Island), and to get a larger foothold in the western fur trade.

In 1766 the East India Company joined the nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad against Hyder Ali in return for the cession of the Northern Sarkars.

He recognized Charlemagne's title of emperor (Western, Holy Roman) in return for the cession to Byzantium of Venice and other cities on the Adriatic.

The arrival of Captain Passot's warship Colibri in 1840 initiated the cession of the island to the French, and the town Hell-Ville was named for Passot's commander in chief, Admiral de Hell.