colonial conquests

It did not return with any force until the colonial conquests of the 19th century.

To achieve this, he was ready to return all British colonial conquests.

The British government resented having to turn over all colonial conquests since 1793.

He was committed to transforming the tiny country into a strong nation, both through colonial conquests and national development.

These were much reduced from the 19th century due to the colonial conquests, but still occurred in some areas with varying levels of intensity.

This was a lesson that was to be repeated some 200 years later when Europeans advanced for their colonial conquests.

Indeed, some historians argue that mere advanced technology was not the single most decisive factor in the outcome of many colonial conquests.

Bismarck and many deputies in the Reichstag had no interest in colonial conquests merely to acquire square miles of territory.

Britain resented having to turn over all colonial conquests since 1793 and France was angry that British troops had not evacuated the island of Malta.

In the past, the west coast of Europe became rich as a result of colonial conquests and of controlling the economy in the Third World.

Britain resented having to turn over all of its colonial conquests since 1793 when France was permitted to retain most of its conquered territory in Europe.

At the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 British colonial conquests were exchanged for a French withdrawal from Brussels.

France had fought the war to oust the Chinese from Tonkin, not to make colonial conquests in China itself, and the French punctiliously evacuated the Pescadores on 22 July 1885.

I have no need to remind you that bythe Peace of Amiens England has surrendered most of her colonial conquests - and in return Bonaparte has given up the deserts of Egypt.

Realizing that the city was not well enough defended and fearing further attacks following British colonial conquests in the Seven Years War, they now moved to build a new fortress to boost the defense of Havana.

During the first half of the 20th century, Marseille celebrated its "port of the empire" status through the colonial exhibitions of 1906 and 1922; the monumental staircase of the railway station, glorifying French colonial conquests, dates from then.

The first section was dedicated to the crimes made during the colonial conquests, and quoted Albert Londres and André Gide's criticisms of forced labour while the second one made an apology of the Soviets' "nationalities' policy" compared to "imperialist colonialism".

In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India, Marx was puzzled by the fact that, although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times, they were in his time being overtaken by Europe, as the colonial conquests showed.