transmarine

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See ch. iv., where the attitude of the senate towards the proposals for transmarine settlement made by Caius Gracchus is described.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Some historians have attributed to the influence of Richelieu this policy of creating a seigneurial class in the transmarine dominions of France.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

While the kingdom of France was weak, monarchs like Henry II. and Richard I. might dream of extending their transmarine possessions to the detriment of their suzerain at Paris.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various

Orders were therefore sent from Whitehall to the governors of the transmarine possessions of the Crown, directing them to be on the watch for him.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

England would have become a transmarine province of France, it would in time have been absorbed like Brittany.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von