7 sentences with 'annexed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word annexed and other words derived from it.
• « That same year, Napoleon annexed the Papal States in central Italy, prompting Pope Pius VII to excommunicate him. Predictably, this alienated many of his Catholic subjects. »
• « In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, an event known as the Anschluss. Although the German pseudo-invasion was poorly organised, most Austrians welcomed German tanks entering Austrian cities, and there was virtually no resistance. »
• « In 1910 Japan annexed Korea and restored the country to its former name of Chosen. But the Second World War put things back in place, which was the place of the winners of the war: Korea was liberated and divided in two: the southern part came under the domination of the United States. The northern part fell under the influence of what was until not so long ago the Soviet Union. (How many surprises the map still has in store for us...!). »
• « However, outraged by the fact that the United States had annexed Texas, the Mexican government refused to discuss the issue of selling land to the United States. In fact, Mexico even refused to receive Polk's emissary, John Slidell, who had been sent to Mexico City to negotiate. »
• « The New Zealand Company bought land cheaply off Maori in dishonest deals to gain as much land as possible before the British Government annexed New Zealand. »
• « After New Zealand was annexed by Britain, it was initially set up as a dependency of New South Wales. However, by 1841, New Zealand was made a colony in its own right. As a colony, it inherited political practices and institutions of government from the United Kingdom. »
• « The first capital of the country was Russell, located in the Bay of Islands, declared by Governor Hobson after New Zealand was formally annexed. In September 1840, Hobson changed the capital to the shores of the Waitematā Harbour where Auckland was founded. The seat of Government was centralised in Wellington by 1865. »