Abroad he aimed to weaken the power of the Hapsburgs, to extend the boundaries of France, and to build up a colonial empire.
At about this time the Spanish authorities began to be impressed by the idea, first expressed by Aranda in July, 1775, that the American outbreak would endanger Spain's colonial empire.
The success of the American Revolution was to be related in no small degree to the loss of Spain's colonial empire.
After the loss of the American colonies, the government in England contrived for a time to evade the problems and responsibilities of colonial empire.
But he believed in a colonial empire, if England would only guarantee good government.
Santo Domingo must be recovered and restored to its former prosperity--even if slavery had to be reestablished--before Louisiana could be made the center of colonial empire in the West.
Exhausted by incessant worry, he too had succumbed to the pestilence; and with him, as events proved, passed Bonaparte's dream of colonial empire in the New World.
Twenty-four thousand men had been sacrificed at the very threshold of colonial empire, and the skies of Europe were not so clear as they had been.
Portugal rewon her independence in 1640, but for years Manila was the capital of a colonial empire, extending from Goa in India to Formosa.
With zeal and success she sought the conversion of the heathen natives, whom she subjected, and in this showed a humanitarian interest in advance of the Dutch and English, who rivaled her in colonial empire.
How came they to wrest from Spain and Portugal a colonial empire, which they hold to-day without loss of prosperity or evidence of decline?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonial empire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
