"possession" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was now an English possession, and neither the local Dutch government nor the mother country Holland would exercise further control.
- The truth is that English was never properly an English possession.
- They would know that with no English possession within three or four days' sailing, the ship's company must be desperate for water.
- At the same time, voluntary emigration began to the English overseas possessions.
- Calais, from 1347 to 1558, when it was recovered by the French throne, was an English possession.
- The pre-1707 English overseas possessions became the nucleus of the British Empire.
- The town remains an English possession until 1558.
- Calais had been an English possession for approximately two centuries, until France conquered the city in 1558.
- The advance continued elsewhere, quickly sweeping up all English possessions except Calais.
- After that, this island became an English possession.
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