Overseas possessions of a nation-state, usually a product of the European Age of Exploration.
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The prospect of profits was gone; the hope of an overseas empire survived.
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This gave him control of the Portuguese fleet and the vast overseas empire that went with it.
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These two unlikely forces were joining together to destroy Christianity by wresting the overseas empire from the British crown.
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Since then, Colao has shown his skill as a clean-up man by trimming the overseas empire that his predecessors had built up via acquisitions.
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"Why, the fall of Batavia-forthat is the linch-pinof their overseas empire."
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Thus the Dutch had succeeded to the colonial empire of the Portuguese.
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Now let us look at the picture the French colonial empire offers.
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Our colonial empire has shared also in the welfare and progress of the mother-country.
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Here is the picture the celebrated German colonial empire offers.
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The year was not very eventful to our colonial empire.
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She did practically nothing to develop this magnificent colonial empire.
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With the destruction of her Armada Spain's colossal dream of colonial empire passed away.
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The old dream of colonial empire has come back again.
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France had long been ambitious of extending the domain of her colonial empire in America.
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Not to mention her colonial empire Germany loses nearly one-third of her territory in Europe.
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He had annexed Portugal, with its immense colonial empire.
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Germany must also be deprived of any colonial empire and shut out from eastward expansion.
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James's reign is also the beginning of colonial empire.
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Germany must expand over the seas, in colonial empire, and by tariffs of her own making.
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France had been dreaming of a colonial empire stretching from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The colonial empire comprises over fifty distinct governments.
