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In the third century b.c. the founder of the Qin Dynasty annexed the remote Guangzhou area, thus furnishing China with its first major seaport.
When territory wasn’t acquired by conquest — Sind from Baluchi princes, Punjab and Kashmir from the Sikhs, Maharashtra and Delhi from the Marathas, or Assam from Burma — the British annexed it by so-called Principles of Lapse and Paramountcy.
He then annexed about 2,330 sq km (900 sq miles) of land due south of Calcutta to provide rents for the British settlement and to guarantee himself an income of £30,000 per year for life.
The Kurds of what is now Turkey were promised a state after World War I, but Kemal Atatürk annexed them.
Boleslaw later repelled invasions from Otto’s successor and then sought Poland’s own expansion eastward; he eventually annexed parts of present-day Ukraine.