by J. F. Condon, continued to 1861, New Orleans, 1882 ) is the first scholarly treatment of the subject, along with François Barbé-Marbois ' Histoire de la Louisiane et de la cession de colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis ( Paris, 1829 ; in English, Philadelphia, 1830 ).

Only a handful of Chiefs had signed treaties of cession, and in some of those cases it is doubtful whether they had understood the terms.

The Donation of Pepin is a cession of lands including Ravenna that will become the basis of the Papal States.

* Tigranes II of Armenia is placed on Armenian throne by the Parthians in exchange for the cession of " seventy valleys ".

A banquet is said to have taken place ostensibly to seal a peace treaty between the Britons and their Germanic foes, which may have involved the cession of modern-day Essex.

The cession of Roswell ( including everything east of Willeo Creek ) made the new county more contiguous, though a very narrow strip ( what is now the Dunwoody Panhandle of Sandy Springs, ceded to Milton from DeKalb ) actually already connected the two sections.

Congress accepted North Carolina's western cession, which consisted of what is now Tennessee, on April 2, 1790.

It is due entirely to the firmness of Lord Clarendon that the principle of the neutralization of the Black Sea was preserved, that the Russian attempt to trick the allies out of the cession in Bessarabia was defeated, and that the results of the war were for a time secured.

The creation of Franklin is novel, in that it resulted from both a cession ( an offering from North Carolina to Congress ) and a secession ( seceding from North Carolina, when its offer to Congress was not acted upon, and the original cession was rescinded ).

The District of Columbia is under the direct authority of Congress, and was established from territory ceded by the states of Maryland and Virginia, with all of the Virginia cession having since been returned to that state.

It is thought that a regular service to the public was established in the mid-to-late 1870s, after the cession of Kowloon to the British in 1860.

The first poem written by a Canadien after the cession of Canada to Great Britain is Quand Georges trois pris l ' Canada written by an anonymous author in 1763.

In article XIII, the Swedish king promised the Danish king to negotiate full compensation for the cession of Norway in a pending final peace, and the cession of Swedish Pomerania is described as a " proof " of this intention.

After it was ratified on November 23, Sevier helped engineer a second cession act, which passed with little opposition in December, essentially handing over what is now the state of Tennessee to the federal government.

This is also the historic reason that Dorchester Heights is today considered part of South Boston, not modern-day Dorchester, since it was part of the cession of Dorchester to Boston in 1804.

For the situation where no territorial cession is involved, the military government of the principal occupying power will end with the coming into force of the peace settlement.

In the situation of a territorial cession as the result of war, the specification of a " receiving country " in the peace treaty merely means that the country in question is authorized by the international community to establish civil government in the territory.

1950, stated that the PCdR protested Northern Transylvania's cession to Hungary later in the same year ( the Second Vienna Arbitration ), but evidence is inconclusive ( party documents attesting the policy are dated after Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union ).

The Spaniards ’ awareness of the black auxiliaries ’ “ natural savagery ” as well as Santo Domingo ’ s cession to France in the Peace Treaty of Basel, persuaded them to get rid of Jean-François and his troops, since the circumstances that had justified their alliance to the former slaves, that is, Spain ’ s plan to conquer the western part of Hispaniola, had failed.

It is difficult to assume that the acquisition of real estate, its transmission by inheritance, and its further cession to the " Jewish elders of Kalisz and their entire community " were permitted on the strength of the charter of privileges granted by Boleslaw of Kalisz to Jewish immigrants, for the charter makes no mention of a Jewish community, nor of the right of Jews to acquire landed property.

After the Cherokee defeat and cession of land, new settlers flooded into the Upcountry through the Waxhaws in what is now called Lancaster County.

By the beginning of 1616, Gustavus had become convinced of the impossibility of partitioning reunited Russia, while Russia recognized the necessity of buying off the invincible Swedes by some cession of territory.

He then anointed himself as Duke of Normandy and, in exchange for the cession of Gisors to Louis VII, was formally recognized by the King.

( see also the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars ) In secret Prussia recognized French control of the west bank of the Rhine, pending a cession by the Imperial Diet, while France returned all of the lands east of the Rhine captured during the war.

In 1551, Nomeny was detached from the Bishopric of Metz and given to him as a margraviate by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1567, in right of which he was recognized as an independent, hereditary Prince of the Empire ( the House of Lorraine would obtain a full vote in the Imperial Diet in 1736 for Nomeny in compensation for cession of the Duchy of Lorraine to France — in addition to acquisition of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany ).

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

At the Munich Conference of September 1938, Hitler, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier agreed upon the cession of Sudeten territory to the German Reich by Czechoslovakia.

To promote this disposition to exchange lands, which they have to spare and we want, for necessaries, which we have to spare and they want, we shall push our trading uses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands.

Finally, by the Treaty of Azay-le-Rideau ( 4 July 1189 ), Henry was forced to renew his own homage, to confirm the cession of Issoudun, with Graçay also, to Philip, and to renounce his claim to suzerainty over Auvergne.

The Duar War ( 1864 – 65 ) lasted only five months and, despite some battlefield victories by Bhutanese forces, resulted in Bhutan's defeat, loss of part of its sovereign territory, and forced cession of formerly occupied territories.

Władysław acceded to the formal cession of Samogitia, and agreed to support the Order's designs on Pskov ; in return, Konrad von Jungingen undertook to sell Poland the disputed Dobrzyń Land and the town of Złotoryja, once pawned to the Order by Władysław Opolski, and to support Vytautas in a revived attempt on Novgorod.

The first test of Manuel's reign came in 1144, when he was faced with a demand by Raymond, Prince of Antioch for the cession of Cilician territories.

In 1021, he also secured the cession of the Kingdom of Vaspurakan by its king, Seneqerim-John, in exchange for estates in Sebasteia.

The cession was ratified by over 25, 000 electors out of a total of 30, 700.

Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice, strongly opposed the cession to France ( arguing that the ballot was rigged by the French ).

In 1802, the federal government promised to extinguish Indian titles to lands claimed by Georgia in return for Georgia's cession of the western lands that became Alabama and Mississippi.

Three weeks later at Cloudy Bay, Bunbury made a declaration of British sovereignty over the whole of the South Island, based upon the cession by the chiefs as signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi.

Geoffrey held the duchy until 1149, when he and Matilda conjointly ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by King Louis VII of France the following year.

Dallas County was created by the Alabama territorial legislature on February 9, 1818, from Montgomery County, a portion of the Creek cession of August 9, 1814.

The final act in this long-continued struggle took place in 1860, when France obtained by cession the rest of the county of Nice and also Savoy, thus remaining sole ruler on the western slope of the Alps.

This area was once claimed by both the Chickasaw's and Cherokees, necessitating a cession of territory from each tribe before the settlement could be established.

Randolph County was one of several counties created out of the last Creek cession formulated by the Treaty of Cusseta, on March 24, 1832.

A part of the 1808 Osage Native American land cession, the county was settled in the early 1830s by pioneers from Kentucky and Tennessee.

European settlement of the area began in the 17th century following French exploration of the region and became known as New France, the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763.

Article One, Section Eight of the United States Constitution therefore permits the establishment of a " District ( not exceeding ten miles square ) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States.