单词 | new england confederation |
释义 | > as lemmasNew England Confederation In modern political use, ‘confederation’ is usually limited to a permanent union of sovereign states for common action in relation to externals. Such were the following: Germanic Confederation: see Germanic adj.1 and n. Compounds. Confederation of the Rhine, the union of certain German States under the protection of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1806 to 1813. New England Confederation, the union of four New England colonies for common defence against the Dutch and the Indians, 1643–84. The United States of America are commonly described as a Confederation (or confederacy) from 1777 to 1789; but from 1789, their closer union has been considered a ‘federation’ or federal republic.extracted from confederationn.< as lemmas |
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