Sentence examples for with the cession from inspiring English sources

Though expecting the French to be satisfied with the cession of distant Songkhla, Narai was forced to accept their occupation of Bangkok.

In 1872 he was made governor of the self-governing colony of New South Wales, and he was employed from 1874 to 1875 on special service in connection with the cession of the Fiji Islands to Great Britain.

C. 1048 Humbert I, byname Humbert the Whitehanded, Italian Umberto Biancamano (died c. 1048) count of Savoy and founder of the house of Savoy, whose services to the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II were rewarded with the cession of lands that placed him in control of the strategic Alpine passes between Italy and France.

Brunei's power subsequently declined through the 19th century, notably with the cession of Sarawak in northwestern Borneo to the English adventurer James (later Sir James Brookee in 1841, the expansion of Sarawak by additional grants to Brooke, the cession to Great Britain of the island of Labuan in Brunei Bay, and the final loss of what is now Sabah, East Malaysia, in northeastern Borneo.

With the cession of Overhill lands, the Cherokee Nation's center of power shifted south to New Echota in Georgia.

Keokuk was granted a reservation within the cession and recognized by the Americans as the primary chief of the Sauks and Meskwakis.

In 1900, Hay negotiated of a treaty with Denmark for the cession of the Danish West Indies.

In July 1919 he reached agreement with the Italians on the cession of the Dodecanese (Dodekánisa) and secured an extension of the Greek area of occupation in Anatolia.

To counterbalance this, Britain required a possession in the Eastern Mediterranean where it might base ships and troops, and negotiated with the Ottomans for the cession of Cyprus.

After China's defeat in the First Opium War (1839 42) against the British Empire, Hong Kong became a British colony with the perpetual cession of Hong Kong Island, followed by Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.

The great expansion of Soviet power in the postwar years exposed Turkey in June 1945 to Soviet demands for control over the straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and for the cession of territory in eastern Anatolia.