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But in 1814, with the restoration of Ferdinand VII, the strategic line of the war changed drastically, directing the major Spanish military effort towards South America. By 1815 the general outlines of which areas were controlled by royalists and pro-independence forces were established and a general stalemate set in the war.
An Act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term and altering and enlarging the Powers of an Act, passed in the twenty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, [ab] intituled, "An Act for more effectually repairing the Road leading from the Town of Denbigh to the Town ...
An Act for repealing so much of an Act made in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Fourth Session of the First Parliament of Queen Anne, intituled, "Act for preserving the Game," [ac] as relates to the Shooting of Hares. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (No. 2) (35 & 36 Vict. c. 97))
An Act to amend an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year o£ the Reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for more effectually repairing the Road leading from Heronsyke to Kirkby in Kendal, and from thence through Shap to Eamont Bridge, in the County of Westmoreland, and for making a new Road from the said Road at a Place called Far Cross ...
The South Sea Company was granted trading concessions in South America during the reign of Queen Anne, in January 1711 under the Treaty of Utrecht. Following this attempts had been made by the British to establish a foothold in South America; most however failed, notably in 1741 at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
An act for continuing an Act, made in this Session of Parliament, intituled, An act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their quarters, within the United Kingdom, and the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 63))
The Quartering Acts were several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain which required local authorities in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America to provide British Army personnel in the colonies with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny Act and required annual renewal by Parliament. [1]
The act, passed during the American Revolutionary War, was an attempt by Parliament to end the war by conceding one of the early points of dispute. [ 2 ] Parliament's effort to tax the colonies without the consent of the colonists, especially as enacted in the Townshend Acts of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773, had been a major cause of the ...