It was now an English possession, and neither the local Dutch government nor the mother country Holland would exercise further control.

The truth is that English was never properly an English possession.

They would know that with no English possession within three or four days' sailing, the ship's company must be desperate for water.

At the same time, voluntary emigration began to the English overseas possessions.

Calais, from 1347 to 1558, when it was recovered by the French throne, was an English possession.

The pre-1707 English overseas possessions became the nucleus of the British Empire.

The town remains an English possession until 1558.

Calais had been an English possession for approximately two centuries, until France conquered the city in 1558.

The advance continued elsewhere, quickly sweeping up all English possessions except Calais.

After that, this island became an English possession.