An aggressive program of annexation in the 1990s increased Ontario's size to 50 square miles (130 square km), making it the largest city in San Bernardino county and the focus of much of the area's economic and demographic growth.
Pitt's Act of 1784 reiterated the company's own intentions by forbidding aggressive wars and annexations.
Most of the Great Powers, except Britain, had aggressive war aims that included the annexation of other countries.
Granted, tensions between the West, headed by the United States, and Russia, increasingly aggressive, stem from the latter's annexation of Crimea.
Supporters from the leave campaign also waded in, with a Vote Leave spokesman saying: "You can criticise the EU's inept and often bumbling foreign policy record without accepting the legitimacy of Putin's illegal annexation of the Crimea and aggressive campaign of fear and violence towards its neighbours".
It's been more than a year since the Russian president authorized aggressive military action that led to the annexation of Crimea and the amassing of tens of thousands of Russian troops near the border of Ukraine.
Russia's aggressive behavior in recent years, including the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, has intensified fears in the tiny former Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania that their giant neighbor to the east may focus on them next.
Canada slapped an aggressive round of sanctions on Russia following its annexation of Crimea and support for rebels in Donetsk and Donbass.
The annexation of Crimea and Moscow's later aggressive moves were not just responses to one particular event, a Western-instigated revolution in Ukraine.
The declaration also condemned Russia's aggression in Ukraine, provocative Russian activity near NATO borders, its modernization of strategic forces and "its irresponsible and aggressive nuclear rhetoric". It affirmed that it viewed Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal and illegitimate.
