Transmarine Sentence Examples

The long struggle was over, and England now retained nothing of her old transmarine possessions save Calais and the Channel Islands.

He was the first to carry out on a large scale those plans of transmarine colonization whose inception was due to the Gracchi.

The transmarine dominions are Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and the Canal Zone on the Isthmus of Panama.

At the beginning of the 10th century its transmarine possessions had been greatly reduced in size by the loss of Brazil, but were still only surpassed in extent by those of three powers - Great Britain, France and Germany.

Such as survived had now to choose between losing the.one or the other section of their lands; those whose holding was mainly Norman adhered to Philip; those who had more land in England sacrificed their transmarine estates.

But, even where the transmarine corn did not reach the consumers in this extraordinary mode, it injuriously affected Italian agriculture.

The earlier plan of investing the allies of Rome with the transmarine possessions that she acquired was no longer viewed with favor.