Sentence examples for protectorate from from inspiring English sources

Douala served as the capital of the German Kamerun protectorate from 1884 to 1902.

When Morocco was a French protectorate (from 1912 to 1956), the colonial government maintained an active program of historic preservation.

In 1891 the British established the Nyasaland Districts Protectorate, which was called the British Central Africa Protectorate from 1893 and Nyasaland from 1907.

The coming of democratic politics to the Maldives, a sultanate for many centuries, then a British protectorate from 1887 until full independence in 1965, has raised difficult social, religious and political questions.

After careful preparation and coordination, a joint offensive was launched in September 1925, with the Spanish landing some 18,000 troops at Alhucemas Bay and the French inserting some 20,000 troops into the Spanish protectorate from the south.

Bahrain was a British protectorate from the 19th century until independence in 1971, ruled by the al-Khalifa dynasty that has long looked to Britain to shield it from international reaction against domestic repression.

After the Spanish-American war in 1898 gave it territories and protectorates from Cuba to the Philippines, the United States needed a naval route between Atlantic and Pacific.The gains were swift.

In 1913 the control of the protectorate passed from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office, when the posts of consul general and first minister were merged into that of British resident.

Trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the pair returned to the Protectorate, parachuting from a Handley Page Halifax, on 28 December 1941.

He succeeded in conciliating the Boers of Stellaland but could not prevent Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal, from declaring a protectorate over Goshen, from which he withdrew only after an expeditionary force was sent up from the Cape.

The great majority of them were from Korea (then a Japanese protectorate), though women from China, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia including Japan and Dutch nationals in Indonesia were also involved.