cession

These land cessions were cemented in the Treaties of 1866, in which the five slaveholding nations also agreed to emancipate their slaves, give them all the rights of tribal citizens and provide them with land allotments.

A general rising was planned in Lombardy, but failed, as the Austrians received news of the proposed cession of Milan.

On the cession of Louisiana, he followed the standard of "the king, his master, who never suffers an old servant to be neglected."

Napoleon affected uncertainty, and demanded an enormous cession of territory as the price of a truce.

The principal dissensions, however, grew out of the question of the cession of the territory east of the Mississippi.

To the cession of its rather imposing fort was immediately ascribed the massacre of our countrymen at Patna, as already mentioned.