By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.

Monroe informed Congress in March 1822 that permanent stable governments had been established in the United Provinces of La Plata ( present-day Argentina ), Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.

During the Dutch Revolt, trade came to a halt and even though Nijmegen became a part of the Republic of United Provinces in 1585, it remained a border town and had to endure multiple sieges.

The Suphannabhum mandala had been independent from Khmer influence and composed originally the Western Provinces of modern Thailand including Suphanburi, Ratchaburi, and Phetchaburi.

England and the United Provinces had already begun raising armies, and now, although Louis had treated William as King of England since the Treaty of Ryswick, he now recognized James II's son, the Catholic James Francis Edward Stuart ( the " Old Pretender "), as the rightful monarch.

Expanded the Canadian Senate by giving the Western Canadian provinces 24 Senators, the same number that had been guaranteed to Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces.

However, the Provinces continued to be guaranteed to have at least as many members of the House of Commons as Senators they had in the Senate.

The English queen, however, in her instructions to Leicester, had expressly declined to accept offers of sovereignty from the United Provinces while still demanding of the States to follow the " advice " of her lieutenant-general in matters of government.

Holland itself was now in danger, and when in April 1747 Saxe's army, which had now conquered the Austrian Netherlands up to the Meuse, turned its attention to the United Provinces.

Historically it had been a part of the Netherlands ( Seventeen Provinces or Burgundian Netherlands ), up to 1648, but Luxembourg was still a part of the discussions.

In 1813 he was given a military command in Tunja, New Granada ( modern day Colombia ), under the direction of the Congress of United Provinces of New Granada, which had formed out of the juntas established in 1810.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

Moreover, the death of Dutch stadtholder William II, who had favoured an expansion of the army at the expense of the navy, had led to a change in the defence policy of the United Provinces towards protecting the great trading concerns of Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Everyone living in the United Provinces had an opportunity to participate in the Company.

# Margaret of Austria ( 1480-1530 ) who was Governor of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands ( 1507 – 1515, 1519 – 1530 ) and a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy and had no children from this marriage.

The Seventeen Provinces had been unified by Charles ' Burgundian ancestors, but nominally were fiefs of either France or the Holy Roman Empire.

The other Provinces had their own regional Presidency systems, based on a Welsh model of administration, in theory if not in fact from the 1570s and 1580s up to the 1670s, and were considered separate entities.

He was born in 1748, the only son of William IV, who had the year before been restored as stadtholder of the United Provinces.

Provinces broke free from the central Córdobese administration, and became effectively sovereign states-taifas-under the same governors that had been named by the last Umayyad Caliphs.

France invaded the Republic of the United Provinces in January 1794, the Stadtholder fled to England and asked the British Government to send the Navy to take care of the possessions of the United East Indies Company that was in dire financial straits and in which he had a huge stake.

Although England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden had signed a Triple Alliance against France in 1668 to prevent that country from occupying the Spanish Netherlands, Charles II of England signed the secret Treaty of Dover with France in 1670, entailing that England would join Louis XIV of France in a punitive campaign against the United Provinces.

The densely populated areas of Northern Italy and the United Provinces ( the Netherlands ) were infamous for their high degree of fortification of cities.

Provinces were ruled by a governor, either a proconsul, propraetor or procurator, and were ascribed a certain number of legions, according to the degree of pacification they required.

He was then appointed Lieutenant-Governor of North West Provinces, and Chief Commissioner of Oudh ( North-West Provinces ) from 1882 to 1887 ( he introduced a degree of local self-government to that area ).

In 1819, the Federal armies rejected the centralist Constitution of the United Provinces of South America and defeated the forces of Supreme Director José Rondeau at the 1820 Battle of Cepeda, effectively ending the central government, and securing Provinces ' sovereignty through a series of inter-Provincial pacts.

After Leicester's departure in 1587 the States-General decided to assume sovereignty themselves, thereby making the seven United Provinces a republic.

The American Consul in the United Provinces of the River Plate protested the actions by Vernet, stating that the United States did not recognise its sovereignty in the Falklands.

The United Provinces, France, and Spain all protested against this treatment, but James I held fast to his claim of sovereignty over Spitsbergen.

The bishopric of Liège was never part of the Dutch Seventeen Provinces or the Spanish and Austrian Southern Netherlands, but from the 16th century onwards, its politics were strongly influenced by the dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburgs, under the sovereignty of the family de la Marck ( Dutch van der Marck ).

In December 1832, two naval vessels were sent by the United Kingdom to re-assert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (), after the United Provinces of South America ( part of which later became Argentina ) ignored British diplomatic protests over the appointment of Luis Vernet as governor of the Falkland Islands and a dispute over fishing rights.

Taken together, in 2006 out of a total population of 2, 589, 600 ( 1, 850, 500 in the Autonomous Community, 230, 200 in the Northern Provinces and 508, 900 in Navarre ), there were 665, 800 who spoke Basque ( aged 16 and above ).

In 1951, when the Portuguese government overhauled the entire colonial system, all Portugal's colonies, including Portuguese Guinea, were renamed Overseas Provinces ( Províncias Ultramarinas ).

In the following year the government contrived, with the help of the Red Cross, a scheme to " repatriate " Korean residents, who mainly were from the Southern Provinces, to their " home " of North Korea.

The British Indian Empire, which included present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, was divided into two types of territories: the Provinces of British India, which were governed directly by British officials responsible to the Governor-General of India ; and princely states, under the rule of local hereditary rulers who recognised British suzerainty in return for local autonomy, in most cases as established by treaty.

Protestants occupied most church buildings, and those remaining were confiscated by the government of the Dutch Republic of Seven Provinces, which favoured Calvinism.

On 29 November 1939 he sent out a cable regarding the " Evacuation of New Eastern Provinces ", describing details of the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps, and giving guidance surrounding the December 1939 census, which would be the basis on which those deportations were performed.

In the sixteenth century, the Seventeen Provinces were the centre of free trade, imposing no exchange controls, and advocating the free movement of goods.

England and the United Provinces, meanwhile, were to retain their commercial rights in Spain.

The constituent six Socialist Republics and two Socialist Autonomous Provinces that made up the country were: SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Slovenia and SR Serbia ( including the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo which after 1974 were largely equal to the other members of the federation ).

* The United Provinces of Central America were formed in 1823.

The remaining acts dealt with a variety of topics, though the majority were concerned with modifying the representation in Parliament or in the Senate of Canada as the country enlarged and changed 1915, 1943, 1946, 1952, 1974, 1975, 1975 ( No. 2 ), adding the newer Provinces of Manitoba, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Newfoundland.

Amendments were also made at this time: section 92A was added, giving the Provinces greater control over non-renewable natural resources.

During the French and Indian War, 11, 500 Acadians were forcibly relocated from the Canadian Maritime Provinces — first to the Thirteen Colonies and then to France.

By the early 18th century, the region was divided into several small kingdoms which were captured by the British and incorporated into Central Provinces and Berar and the Central India Agency.

These were the words used by Andre Rebouças, an engineer, in his book " Provinces of Paraná, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia ", which started up the campaign aimed at preserving the Iguaçu Falls in 1876, when Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was four years old.

By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was re-assigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.

These territories formed an integral part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands as they were defined during the reign of Philip's son, Emperor Charles V, and passed to Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.

In 1528, the secular powers of the bishop over both Neder-and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – were transferred to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who became the Lord of the Seventeen Provinces ( the current Benelux and the northern parts of France ).

Patronymics were common in the Dutch United Provinces until the French invasion in 1795 and subsequent annexation in 1810.

After the northern Seven United Provinces of the seventeen declared their independence from Habsburg Spain, the provinces of the Southern Netherlands were recaptured ( 1581 ) and are sometimes called the Spanish Netherlands.

In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 the names " United Provinces of the Netherlands " and " United Netherlands " were used.

After the Peace of Westphalia several border territories were assigned to the United Provinces.

The States-General of the United Provinces were in control of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) and the Dutch West India Company ( WIC ), although some shipping expeditions were initiated by some of the provinces, mostly Holland and / or Zeeland.