Manheim and Heidelberg were in possession of Bavaria, and Frankenthal was shortly afterwards ceded to the Spaniards.
This clause re-established that compromise line in all that long extent of it which was ceded to Spain by the treaty of 1819, which became Texian by her separation from Mexico, and which became slave soil under her laws and constitution.
The cession of Texas to Spain in 1819 is the beginning point in the chain of causes which have led to this war; for unless the country had been ceded away, there could have been no quarrel with any power in getting it back.
And now, the wonder is, why all these things were not foreseen a little while before, when Texas was being ceded to a non-slaveholding empire?
New Mexico and Upper California were ceded to the United States, and the lower Rio Grande, from its mouth to El Paso, taken for the boundary of Texas.
Pharaoh was touched by the benevolence which his divine father had shown him; he forthwith made a decree by which he ceded to the temple all his rights of suzerainty over the neighboring nomes within a radius of twenty miles.
In 1830 a final treaty was signed at Prairie du Chien, by which all title to the lands of the Sauk and Foxes east of the Mississippi was ceded to the government, and provision was made for the immediate opening of the tract to settlers.
The fortress of Tokaj and the counties of Bereg, Szatmar and Ugocsa were at the same time ceded to Bocskay, with reversion to Austria if he should die childless.
The Piankeshaws having some claim to the country ceded by the Delawares, it has been thought best to quiet that by fair purchase also.
They have also ceded a tract of 4 miles square, including the salt springs near the mouth of that river.
The English protection was given; and at length the Nabob Vizier, by a solemn treaty, ceded all his rights over Benares to the Company.
He wished to keep Franche Comte It was not from regard to his word that he ceded Franche Comte.
Tanjore, a district of Madras, noted for its fertility; ceded to the East India Company by the Marathas in 1799.
They pretend that the sachem who ceded the territory to the Spaniards, two hundred years ago, had no right to sell it.
The old freebooter had established his headquarters in the former dwelling of Don Torribio Quiroga, which the latter had gracefully ceded to him.
The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States," ran the words of the treaty of peace closing the war with Spain, "shall be determined by the Congress.
Nevertheless it had also proved to be a good contract for the Karlsruhe, for such business as the Guardian ceded had paid a modest but unfailing return to its Teutonic connection year after peaceful year.
And Mr. Scheidle, after analyzing and studying the results of the business which the Guardian had ceded to the Karlsruhe, made a very fair offer.
To protect his people from this disaster he ceded his country to Britain, with a clause in the contract providing for the ultimate payment of the American debt.
In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights.
Skirmishing with the Dutch in the region eventually resulted in an 1859 treaty in which Portugal ceded the western portion of the island.
Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades.
The inhabitants of the ceded territory were to be "incorporated into the Union.
The fact that France had in 1763 actually dismembered her colonial empire and that Louisiana as ceded to Spain extended only to the Iberville, was given no weight in Livingston's deductions.
In addition to this, it was discovered that Mexico had abolished slavery, and consequently that the lex loci of all the countries ceded by Mexico to the United States excluded slavery.
In 1783, Virginia ceded to the United States, for the common benefit, all her immense territory northwest of the river Ohio.
Almost all Livonia, with the whole of Esthonia, had been ceded by the Poles to Charles XI.
It was ceded in the customary manner, with a reservation of rights and privileges.
Wyburg, another of his conquests, and that part of Finland which was lost, and ceded by the Swedes in 1742, make another government.
The most signal, and the most bloody victories, have produced no other consequences than the reduction of a few provinces ceded afterwards by treaties, and retaken again by other battles.
Nor will they at any time hinder or prevent persons from exploring or searching for minerals, or other valuable productions, in any part of the territory hereby ceded to Her Majesty, as before mentioned.
When the Dutch West India Company ceded it to the city of Amsterdam it was named New Amstel.
The Indian warrior Tecumseh, claiming that lands ceded by other tribes belonged to his own tribe, threatened vengeance on any who should attempt to settle on these lands.
Spain has ceded Louisiana to France, and France has excluded Americans from New Orleans, and the navigation of the Mississippi.
To be more at freedom she concluded peace with Frederick, and ceded Silesia to him, although greatly against her will.
It seems certain that France has ceded to the English the right to seize all French vessels coming from the islands, which are charged with American commodities.
If they have the upper hand, as everything seems to point to that end, will we not have infinitely to regret, Monsieur le Comte, not to have ceded to their prayers?
It very seldom indeed happens, that the artificial or civil admeasurements of territory can be regulated by such natural bounds, as they are, in general, the effect of original acquisition, or have been ceded by treaty.
Thus, as we are informed by Plutarch, when Philip had overrun Thessaly, destroying and plundering the whole country, Flaminius ordered his troops to march in a regular manner, as through a ceded country which had become their own.
Thus in the war, which the Aetolians carried on with the assistance of the Romans, the lands and cities were ceded to the Aetolians, and the prisoners and moveable effects were given to the Romans.
In the same manner Acarnania and Amphilochia are said to have been under the dominion of the Aetolians; Peraea and Caunus under that of the Rhodians; and Pydna was ceded by Philip to the Olynthians.
In 1783 Great Britain ceded to the United States all territory east of the Mississippi, except Florida, which she ceded back to Spain.
All the Mississippi valley was then claimed by France, but in 1763 sheceded it to England.
In 1762 France ceded her possessions in Louisiana west of the Mississippi to Spain, and the country east of that river to England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
