Not until the 1820s, when British encroachment on Burmese territory forced Burman attention inward, was Siam able to relax its vigilance along its western borders.
British encroachment into areas of South Africa already settled by the Afrikaner Boers and the competition for resources and land that developed between them as a result, led to the Second Boer War in 1899.
She also wrote of the women who were more obscure but equally valuable: the wives of heroes who, in the face of British encroachment, bravely raised children and defended their homes.
This resistance was motivated by a French desire to recover Acadia and by the concerns of the Abenaki and Mi'kmaq, who had not been parties to Utrecht, to British encroachment on their lands and liberties after the war ended.
This was done both to observe the damage to German economic interests in Moçambique and as a show of force to prevent British encroachment on Delagoa Bay, which was the only supply port for the independent Transvaal.
The Continental Army had to prevent all future British naval encroachment, or risk being divided.
Protecting British sovereignty from the encroachments of "Eurocrats" in Brussels has consistently served as a political call to arms.
He could stave off a referendum, hold together his Coalition, win over his party and prevent further encroachments on British commercial freedom by the use of that one little, previously unsayable word, "No".
David Cameron has fuelled popular frustration with Europe by painting the European court as an encroachment on British sovereignty.
Beginning in the 1830s, the Iranian Qājār dynasty's claim to Herāt was opposed by Great Britain, which sought the establishment of an independent Afghan state to shield British India from Russian encroachment.
