The British government annexed the land, then immediately sold it to the newly-formed responsible government of Southern Rhodesia for £2 million.

The Egyptian government did not annex the Gaza Strip, but instead ruled it as a foreign occupying power.

With ecology an enshrined word, the big lumber interests were helpless when government annexed "their" private rights to forest, range and watershed.

During this period, the Manchu-led government annexed Taiwan into the Qing Empire.

The new government annexed the Golan Heights and banned the national airline from flying on the Sabbath.

The German government annexed the island in 1888.

In 1980, the Israeli government annexed the East-side of Jerusalem and re-unified the country but the international community disputed this.

In 1792 the French revolutionary government annexed the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium), which were traditionally preserved as a buffer state.

In 1950 the government of Hungary annexed the village from Somogy to Baranya.

Eventually the Belgian government annexed the territory as a Belgian colony.