Sentence examples for of this cession from inspiring English sources
The southern portion of this cession was in fact beyond Iroquois territory, and the British negotiated additional agreements with the Cherokee verifying the new boundaries in what is now West Virginia at the Treaty of Hard Labor (October 1768) and the Treaty of Lochaber (October 1770).
According to Jung, the Sauks and Meskwakis did not learn the true extent of the cession until years later.
On Jan . 6 2000, President Clinton wrote to say he was still with us: "We are just a few weeks shy of the 200th anniversary of New York's cession of Governors Island to the United States for the purpose of strengthening the harbor's defenses.
Alaska's western maritime boundary, separating the waters of the United States and Russia, was established in the Treaty of Cession of 1867 (which declared the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States).
Sales of territory sometimes occurred as countries took their present shape, but in the past 150 years this type of formal cession has given way to leases and similar arrangements that leave sovereignty intact.
Officially, he was only commandant of the naval station then under construction, although the deed of cession of the territory acknowledged his theoretical authority to govern the people.
If this be the modern rule, even in cases of conquest, who can doubt its application to the case of an amicable cession of territory?
The hotel industry has experienced a great deal of franchise development, cession of walls and management contracts.
In 1715 Portugal signed a peace agreement with Spain and surrendered its claims to Badajoz in lieu of Spain's cession of Sacramento territory in the La Plata area in South America.
On October 10, 1874, after negotiations had led to an offer of unconditional cession, Fiji became a British crown colony.
Lincoln would settle for nothing short of a cession of resistance to the federal government and an end to slavery; the Confederates would not even concede that they and the Union were one nation.
