The Pasha's army is commanded by French officers, and the annexation of these States to Egypt would be their practical annexation to France.

We catch him at a gentleman's house in Virginia, boasting over his cupsfor he seems to have paid habitual tribute to a bowl of punchthat he will break up the government of Maryland, and annex this poor little Province of ours to Virginia: a fact worth notice just now, as it makes it clear that annexation is not the new idea of the Nineteenth Century, but lived in very muddy brains a long time ago.

The opinion then, as now, prevailed with the Executive that the annexation of Texas to the Union was a matter of vast importance.

4. The annexation of Texas and the occupation of the whole of Oregon become questions in the campaign of 1844.

The annexation of the world's championship in a record breaking world's series with the New York Giants was a fitting climax to their season's achievement.

And yet it is obvious that the annexation of Danzig, one of the bulwarks of the old Hanseatic League, and of Königsberg, the cradle of the Prussian Crown and of modern German philosophy, would be a flagrant violation of that principle of Nationality which the Allies have inscribed upon their banner.

Napoleon assured him that he might depend on the absolute neutrality of France, in case of a war between Prussia and Austria; it was agreed also that the annexation of the Duchies to Prussia would not be an increase of territory which would cause any uneasiness at Paris; Napoleon would view it with favour.

The annexation of Eastern Roumelia in 1885 was a great step in the direction of its realization.

Cut off from civilizing influences, the Moslems isolated themselves in a lonely fanaticism, far more racial than religious, and the history of the country from the fall of the Merinids till the French annexation is mainly a dull tale of tribal warfare.