By 1815 Britain was no longer controlled by politicians dedicated to commercial supremacy, so that cause had vanished.
The empire never fully recovered its internal cohesion, commercial supremacy or territory.
Shortly after the opening of Manila to world trade the Spanish merchants began to lose their commercial supremacy in the Philippines.
The Dutch towns began to prosper and to assert their commercial supremacy over the North Sea.
In the confident years after 1815 Britain's world-wide influence, buttressed by her navy and her commercial supremacy, had been acknowledged on every side.
Progressive ideals were lost as the United States took its place on the world stage in the struggle for commercial supremacy.
Our heart is not set on industrial subjugation or commercial supremacy.
But the struggle for commercial supremacy had not yet really begun.
By eliminating Rythe, I removed the one obstacle that night have blocked my path to commercial supremacy.
If the struggle for commercial supremacy is profitable, continue it.