... Dail , finally secured passage of legislation abolishing the Saenad. The Dail functioned as a unicameral legislature for the remainder of its term. In connection with the events surrounding the abdication of Edward VIII, king of Great Britain, the Dail enacted a bill that deleted all references to the king from the constitution of the Free State and abolished the office of a governor-general ... ...

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... by discrimination between British and colonial officers in rank and pay, he resigned his commission near the end of 1754. The next year however, he volunteered to joined British general Edward Braddock's expedition against the French. When the French and their Indian allies ambushed Braddock on the Monongahela River, Washington although seriously ill, tried to rally the Virginia troops. Whatever public ... ...

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... , Great Britain developed and grew their military simultaneously. This led to heightened tension and competition between the two nations. The man responsible for Britain's foreign policy in 1914 was Sir Edward Grey. Diplomacy and intervention on the part of Sir Grey could have helped to halt the war before it started. When it became obvious that Austria-Hungary leaders were looking ... ...

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... question that the main course of British foreign investment was in accord with the main national purposes" as defined by the state. On 10 July 1914 the foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, told the Commons: "I regard it as our duty, wherever bona fide British capital is forthcoming in any part of the world, and is applying for concessions... that we should ... ...

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