colonial possessions

Korea was the most important of the colonial possessions for strategic and economic reasons.

French banks also established a presence in France's colonial possessions.

"They did not want to allow liberation of their colonial possessions!

Frequent skirmishes between them took place for control of colonial possessions.

Those were exported to many countries, in particular to the colonial possessions of European powers.

France had colonial possessions, in various forms, since the beginning of the 17th century to the 18th century.

These wars took a toll on both nations, as they fought for control of various colonial possessions.

Henry Harford would ultimately lose almost all his colonial possessions.

The war lasted only a few months, and ended with Spain losing most of her remaining colonial possessions.

French overseas territories were in the past colonial possessions.

This sent a clarion call to all colonial possessions.

The song reminisces about the former Portuguese colonial possessions worldwide.

The conference strongly criticized the western powers for keeping theirs colonial possessions.

Other countries were more selective, keeping tariffs low for neighbors or former colonial possessions so as to hold on to those markets.

Spanish Sahara was one of the last colonial possessions in Africa.

Former Dutch colonial possessions proved natural markets for the group's products, and a rapid international expansion followed.

However, large French banks still maintain an overseas presence in many of France's former colonial possessions.

Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back, and important colonial possessions, but, like Belgium, was formally 'new'.

In the larger colonial possessions the garrison was likely to comprise both locally recruited and white troops.

The French Empire is better placed geographically, the population of its colonial possessions represents a potential military increase.

England's colonial possessions are of three classes.

The autonomous subunits are often former colonial possessions or are home to a different ethnic group from the rest of the country.

Leopold thought overseas colonies critical to becoming a great power, and worked towards Belgian colonial possessions.

Italy also lost all its colonial possessions, formally ending the Italian Empire.

It continued to apply as a generic term for the major colonial possessions of the British Empire until well into the 20th century.