Sentence examples for 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).

This represents 7.1%% of the total population; however, this percentage is believed to be higher after the cession of South Sudan.

Still, one reason that many far-right conservatives in Britain despise Churchill to this day is that they view his decision to wage total war as having resulted in the cession of the empire to America.

Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.

Following the cession of Québec to Britain in 1763, education fell prey to political and cultural disruption.

In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, under the authority of Hastings, obtained the cession by purchase of the strategic island of Singapore.

The governors of the Johor sultanate were recognized as independent by the British in the cession of Singapore (1819).

In late June a Soviet ultimatum to Romania demanded the cession of Bessarabia and of northern Bukovina.

When Chlotar attacked Burgundy in 605, Austrasia stood aloof, and in 610 Theodebert seized Theodoric by duplicity and extorted the cession of Alsace.

The Austrasian Burgundian alliance was briefly broken in 581, when Chilperic too adopted Childebert, but Guntram bought off Childebert by the cession of territory.

In 1766 the East India Company joined the nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad against Hyder Ali in return for the cession of the Northern Sarkars.