Sentence examples for come under British from inspiring English sources

It had already come under British ownership.

By the 1870s the region had come under British control.

By 1842 the whole of the Brahmaputra valley of Assam had come under British rule.

Control of Georgia was formally returned to its royal governor, James Wright, in July 1779, but the backcountry would not come under British control until after the 1780 Siege of Charleston.

In 1818 Jodhpur came under British paramountcy.

It came under British paramountcy in 1818.

But it came under British rule in the 18th century.

In 1886 Jhansi came under British rule in exchange for the British evacuation of Gwalior.

British colonies, Boer republics, and African kingdoms all came under British control.

These states, then, came under British rule as a result of patrilineal misfortune, not economic potential.

At the end of the 19th century Zambia came under British rule.