Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

Much of the region then fell to the short lived Iran based Median Empire, with the Babylonians and Scythians also briefly appropriating some territory.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.

In these campaigns Agesilaus also benefited from the aid of the Ten Thousand, who marched through miles of Persian territory to make it to the Black Sea.

In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

Many area codes reserved 999 ; 320 was also formerly reserved in Bell Canada territory.

The other four pairs of twins — Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and Azaes and Diaprepes — were also given " rule over many men, and a large territory.

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

The archbishops of Riga were also the secular rulers of Riga until 1561 when during the reformation the territory converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism and all church territories were secularized.

The territory has also been recently relieving immigrants from many islands in Lesser Antilles.

In baseball statistics, a hit ( denoted by H ), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches first base after hitting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielder's choice.

It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince ( 1362 – 1372 ), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) it was annexed by France which extended its territory.

The Bastarnae were also a target because they had recently subjugated the Triballi, whose territory lay on the southern bank of the Danube between the tributary rivers Utus ( Vit ) and Ciabrus ( Tsibritsa ), with their chief town at Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria ).

It is also unknown whether or not Sepharad is a city, district or territory.

The Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked into Bulgaria, while Romania and the Ottoman Empire also attacked Bulgaria and gained ( or regained ) territory.

Greece had also allowed the Bulgarians to control the stretch of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople railroad that lay in Greek-occupied territory, since Bulgaria controlled the largest part of this railroad towards Thrace.

It is also possible that he agreed to pay an annual tribute in return for the Goths ' promise to respect Roman territory.

There are also commercial deposits being actively mined in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia ( mostly in Yakutia territory ; for example, Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe ), Brazil, and in Northern and Western Australia.

Goukouni also began to rally toward Habré, and with his support Habré successfully expelled Libyan forces from most of Chadian territory.

The Counts of Barcelona became increasingly independent and expanded their territory to include all of Catalonia.

Blackridge is defined as the territory bounded on the West by Graham Boulevard, on the South by William Penn Highway, on the East by Beulah Road and the Churchill Country Club property, from the Churchill Country Club property along Orlando Place to Atkinson Place, Atkinson Place to Pine Way, and Pine Way to Graham Boulevard, and shall include the properties fronting on both sides of said portions of Country Club Drive, Orlando Place, Atkinson Place and Pine Way.

The territory was created in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act ( before, the area was considered part of Queensland ) and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs nearly 800 km further South, already in the Tasman Sea.

Up to recent centuries, Japan's territory did not include several remote regions of its modern-day territory.

It must include such data as the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the franchisees in the licensed territory ( who may be contacted and consulted before negotiations ), estimate of total franchise revenues and franchisor profitability.

The national territory also includes the small Bonin or Ogasawara Islands, which include Iwo Jima and the Volcano Islands ( Kazan Retto ), stretching some 1, 100 kilometers from the main islands.

Prehistoric Bronze Age cultures that extended onto Kazakh territory include the Srubna culture, the Afanasevo culture and the Andronovo culture.

As this would make it difficult for Iraq to become a naval power ( the territory did not include any deepwater harbours ), the Iraqi King Faisal I ( whom the British installed as a puppet king in Iraq ) did not agree to the plan.

These exceptions include the Northern Mariana Islands which is a commonwealth in political union with the United States with the status of unincorporated organized territory.

Neighboring islands include the French territory of Réunion and the country of Mauritius to the east, as well as the state of Comoros and the French territory of Mayotteto the north west.

However, they can include claims to territory where no members of that nation live at present, because they lived there in the past, the national language is spoken in that region, the national culture has influenced it, geographical unity with the existing territory, or a wide variety of other reasons.

The same proclamation extended Transvaal territory on the east so as to include part of Delagoa Bay.

Males attract females to their territory with well stocked caches, which may include inedible but brightly coloured items.

When Michigan sought statehood in the early 1830s, it sought to include the disputed territory within its boundaries ; Ohio's Congressional delegation was in turn able to halt Michigan's admission to the Union.

However, the territory of Yerevan-Erebuni was settled in the fourth millennium B. C., fortified settlements from the Bronze Age include Shengavit, Tsitsernakaberd, Teishebaini, Arin Berd, Karmir Berd and Berdadzor.

* April 7 – The Mississippi Territory is organized by the United States from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina ; later it is twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U. S. and Spain ( which acquired territory in trade with Great Britain ).

In reaction to the New Zealand Company's moves, on 15 June 1839 a new Letters patent was issued to expand the territory of New South Wales to include all of New Zealand.

This status was renewed and reinforced by the Quebec Act of 1774, which expanded Quebec's territory to include part of the Indian Reserve to the west ( i. e., parts of southern Ontario ), and other western territories south of the Great Lakes including much of what would become the United States ' Northwest Territory, including the modern states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota.

Techniques for estimating population density include point counts, transects and territory mapping.