Word: british
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Strauss, ibid, pp. 718-719; C. L. Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest of Dutch Guiana in 1814: Maps in Harvard, Boston Public and Athenxum libraries of dates 1657-1814.- (1) British claims have not been progressively extended: Venezuelan Memorandum in U. S. Senate Ex. Does. 50th Cong. 1st Session Vol. 11. No. 226, pp. 23-37, Venezuela Memorandum in Foreign Relations...
...final arrangements after the Napoleonic wars the King of the Netherlands agreed to give over the territory about the Essequibo River to the possession of England. No mention of the boundaries was made until in 1840 there arose a dispute. A few months later the British government sent out to have a boundary surveyed. Lord Aberdeen, who commissioned the survey, was anxious to have natural boundaries. Schomburgk, the explorer, followed the Barina River farther than it had seemed to extend before. By this survey considerable more territory was included as British possessions...
...first British college journal has been started at the University of Edinburg...
...question has been one of diplomatic importance for some years and was the subject of earnest consideration by the administration in 1888 when letters passed between Secretary of State Bayard and Minister Phelps on the matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty...
...builders: N. A. R. 160: 87.- (c) Free ships would stimulate building by requiring great repair shops and by encouraging American inventive genius: Question of Ships, 50.- (1) Example of Germany, Ibid.- (d) Germany got her enormous carrying trade and encouraged ship-building by allowing free registry of British-built ships: Free Ships 23.- (e) England maintained her supremacy at a critical time by allowing our clippers free registry: Question of Ships.- (f) Free ships would give our own people a large share in our carrying trade which was 200,000,000 in 1892: N. A. R. 154:357 (March...