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territorial Adjective 1. of or relating to a territory or territories 2. of or concerned with the ownership and control of an area of land or water: a territorial dispute 3. (of an animal or bird) establishing and defending an area which it will not let other animals or birds into: the baboon is a territorial species 4. of or relating to a territorial army territorially adv territoriality n Territorial Noun a member of a Territorial Army
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| To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. The great capital of this association; their long established system; their hereditary influence over the Indian tribes; their internal organization, which makes every thing go on with the regularity of a machine; and the low wages of their people, who are mostly Canadians, give them great advantages over the American traders: nor is it likely the latter will ever be able to maintain any footing in the land, until the question of territorial right is adjusted between the two countries. While our family has followed the general human law in the matter just mentioned, it forms a marked exception to the rule that so absolutely controls all of white blood, on this continent, in what relates to immigration and territorial origin. |
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