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As Dutch-British tensions increased in 1611 the Dutch built the larger and more strategic Fort Belgica above Fort Nassau.
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When the Dutch-British troops withdrew from the region under the leadership of the Duke of Malborough during the Spanish Succession War, Kessenich was plundered in 1714, besieged the castle and the countess captured.
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The founding of the two German states increased Cold War tensions.
The nationalization of U. S. and other foreign-owned companies led to increased tensions with the United States.
However, increased tensions between Spain and the United States, which culminated in the Spanish-American War, finally led to a Spanish withdrawal in 1898, and in 1902 Cuba gained formal independence.
East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.
Polish independence had boosted the development of thriving culture and intellectual achievement was high, but the Great Depression brought huge unemployment and increased social tensions, including rising antisemitism.
As tensions increased, Lewis and Clark prepared to fight, but the two sides fell back in the end.
The period after the elections saw increased human rights abuses, corruption, and ethnic tensions.
Yet, increased tensions and an attempted coup by the army in support of Strafford began to sway the issue.
However, the war increased tensions and relations between ethnic Macedonians and Albanian Macedonians became strained.
Singapore was a part of Malaysia for two years ( 1963-65 ), but it ultimately was asked by Tunku to secede after increased racial tensions due to the election campaigns in 1964.
The return to Mali of large numbers of Tuareg who had migrated to Algeria and Libya during the prolonged drought increased tensions in the region between the nomadic Tuareg and the sedentary population.
A second " Moroccan crisis " provoked by Berlin, increased European Great Power tensions, but the Treaty of Fez ( signed on March 30, 1912 ) made Morocco a protectorate of France.
At the beginning of the 1930s, the Nazi Party's rise to power increased tensions between Germany, the Soviet Union and other countries with ethnic Slavs, which were considered " Untermenschen " according to Nazi racial ideology.
Many Fulani moved into Hausaland and Borno, and their arrival increased tensions because they had no loyalty to the political authorities, who saw them as a source of increased taxation.
Prussia's victory over Austria increased tensions with France.
The 16th century Somali-Portuguese wars in East Africa meant that geopolitical tensions would remain high and the increased contact between Somali sailors and Ottoman corsairs worried the Portuguese who sent a punitive expedition against Mogadishu under Joao de Sepuvelda, which was unsuccessful.
In the late 1960s, tensions between Palestinians and the Jordanian government increased greatly ; heavily armed Arab resistance elements had created a virtual " state within a state " in Jordan, eventually controlling several strategic positions in that country.
* The ethnic tensions and violence in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s create a greater sense of ethnic identity of the nations in the new countries, especially involving increased popularity of nationalism.
Racial tensions increased in Philadelphia, as waves of poor Irish immigrants competed with free blacks for work.
These actions resulted in increased tensions between the Roman nobility and Church, who had traditionally reserved to right to name the pope from among their own members.
Political tensions increased, notably on Black Monday when following an attempted assassination of the Prime Minister, the premises of the Times of Malta were burned to the ground and the house of the Leader of Opposition was attacked.
The North and South came to increased tensions during Polk's Presidency over the extension of slavery into Texas and beyond.
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William was also stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic, then in the preliminary stages of joining the War of the Grand Alliance against France, in a context of international tensions caused by the revocation by Louis XIV of the Edict of Nantes and the disputed succession of Cologne and the Electorate of the Palatinate.
Over the next hundred years, tensions between the Mahican and the Iroquois Mohawk, as well as Dutch and English settlers, caused the Mahican to migrate eastward across the Hudson River into western Massachusetts and Connecticut.
This led to a conflict between the major Dutch cities and the new stadtholder William II of Orange, bringing the Republic to the brink of civil war ; the stadtholder's unexpected death in 1650 only added to the political tensions.
Early in 1651 Cromwell tried to ease tensions by sending a delegation to The Hague proposing that the Dutch Republic join the Commonwealth and the Dutch would assist the English in conquering most of Spanish America.
While publicly trying to appease tensions between France and the Republic, making ambassador William Temple avow friendship to Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, he secretly schemed to seduce Louis to a campaign against the Dutch.
* September: Civil unrest in the Dutch republic leads to its invasion by the Prussian army, and increases tensions in Paris.
This increased tensions and conflict with the French to the north and west, and the English and Dutch to the south and east.
The period of heightened tensions between Dutch and Muslim communities was also evidenced by several confrontations between what are known as the " Lonsdale Youth " ( Dutch youth groups characterised by their preference for Lonsdale clothing, which is often popular with Neo-Nazi groups ) and Turkish and Moroccan youths in provincial towns like Venray.
In spite of these tensions, the 2007 – 08 transfer season would see the departure of Dutch winger Arjen Robben to Real Madrid and French midfielder Florent Malouda moved to Chelsea.
During the 1650s and 1660s the existing tensions between Dutch trade interests and English trade interests grew.
The Dutch sought to take advantage of these ethnic tensions by claiming that the Ambonese would lose their special privileges and pensions under a Javanese-dominated government.
Growing ethnics tensions culminated in the 1872 Karo Rebellion where the Karo were suppressed by Dutch and Malay forces.
As tensions grew between Indonesia and the Dutch Government over West Irian ( now known as West Papua ), Dutch lecturers began to leave the country.
The New Netherland colonists believed the attack was motivated by the murder of a young Wappinger woman named Tachiniki, who was killed by a Dutch settler for stealing a peach – an incident that had raised inter-cultural tensions shortly before the assault.
Mrs. Hutchinson and all but one of her children perished in a massacre which sprang from tensions between the Dutch and the Indians.
Here, as the result of tensions between the Dutch and the Indians, she, six of her children, a son-in-law, and as many as seven others ( likely servants ) were massacred by Indians in late summer 1643.
In the early 21st century, religious tensions between native Dutch people and migrant Muslims is increasing.
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By 1976, tensions had built up between Bear Stearns and Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts leading to their departure and the formation of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in that year.
As tensions built in approach to the American Civil War, California was divided between pro-slavery, and Free Soil advocates.
In 1856, in response to these tensions, Fort Alden was built in the area that would become Snoqualmie.
The era until the failed 1848 revolution, in which these tensions built up, is commonly referred to as Vormärz (" pre-March "), in reference to the outbreak of riots in March 1848.
It has been argued that they could have been defensive sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and resulting pressure on agriculture.
By 1976, tensions had built up between Bear Stearns and Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts leading to their departure and the formation of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in that year.
In 1860, with the outbreak of the Second Taranaki War, tensions in the area were running sufficiently high that a blockhouse was built in Upper Hutt.
This was further forced after severe tensions had built up because of the Saxon university treaty on the future funding of higher education.
During the Crimean War, when tensions mounted between Russia and Austria, a series of massive fortresses, 15 km in circumference, were built around the city by the Austrians.
It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture.
By 1976, tensions had built up between Bear Stearns and Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts leading to their departure and the formation of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in that year.
Several senior staffers and aides advised against the phrase, saying anything that might cause further East-West tensions or potential embarrassment to Gorbachev, with whom President Reagan had built a good relationship, should be omitted.
Following tensions with the local people Mitchell built a small stockade to protect his men and named it Fort Bourke after then Governor Richard Bourke.
Given the buildup of tensions with Great Britain, the US Navy established a shipyard for warships and rapidly built eleven ships at the facility, employing 3, 000 men at the yard, many recruited from New York City.
The city today known as Qazvin is thought to have been founded by Shapur II, King of Persia in 250 CE, under the name Shad Shahpur, when he built a fortification there to control regional tensions.
The fort was built to defend the mouth of the Columbia from potential British attack during ongoing regional tensions related to the Pig War of 1859 – 70 in the San Juan Islands, and remained relevant during the 1896-1903 Alaska Boundary Dispute when British-American tensions were high and once again on the brink of war.
This had followed months of building tensions as the various militia factions built up their arsenals.
It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture.
During the German occupation or protection of Czechoslovakia, tensions had built up because of oppression.
Politically, his theories built on the works of Ikki Kita, but further emphasized that Japan needed to return to its traditional kokutai traditions in order to survive the increasing social tensions created by industrialization and foreign cultural influences.
During the Second Sudanese Civil War ( 1983 – 2005 ) tensions with the Dinka people built up after the Dinka-dominated SPLA forces moved into the area in 1985.
It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture.
The tensions and contrasts between these two sporting cultures eventually built the attitudes and beliefs toward games and sports that Australians share today.
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