What is "oversea"

Usage examples of "oversea".

Carthage and the first oversea traders with the Atlantic coasts of France and the British Isles.

This Nordic race is the one from which most English-speaking people come, the one whose blood runs in the veins of most first-class seamen to the present day, and the one whose descendants have built up more oversea dominions, past and present, than have been built by all the other races, put together, since the world began.

English oversea trade was carried on with the whole of Europe, with Asia Minor, and with the North of Africa.

Drake as to put English sea-power a century ahead of all its rivals in the race for oversea dominion both in the Old World and the New.

Spaniards and Portuguese, who often employed Italian seamen, were the first to begin taking oversea empires.

In those days, and for the next two centuries, a good deal of fighting could go on at sea and round about oversea possessions without bringing on a regular war in Europe.

The two were therefore well placed to receive, store, and distribute the bulk of the oversea trade.

Her first great rival, Spain, was stronger than ever in 1580, because it was then that Philip II added Portugal, as well as all the oversea possessions of Portugal to his own enormous empire.

With these papers in English hands the English oversea traders set to work and formed the great East India Company on the last day of the year 1600.

As the Dutch were then doing half the oversea freight work of Europe, and as they had also been making the most of what oversea freighting England had lost during her Civil War, the Act hit them very hard.

British Empire overseas, as foreigners always tried to shut the British out of their own oversea dominions.

Teneriffe was strongly fortified, as it was a harbour of refuge between Spain and her oversea possessions, both East and West.

The Dutch quickly took up the East India trade dropped by the beaten Spaniards, started their general oversea freighting again, and were soon as dangerous rivals as before.

France could never have held an oversea Empire without a supreme navy, and as she could never have a supreme navy while she had two land frontiers to defend with great armies, she really lost nothing she then could have kept.

His people did not need oversea trade and empire in the same way as the Dutch and British, did not desire it half so much, and were not nearly so well fitted for it when they had it.