five-years

Updated: June 18, 2025

It is obvious that this state of affairs opens all doors and avenues to English political and cultural influences. Thus, before the outbreak of the Five-Years War, the majority of Americans already looked upon the Germans, however unconsciously, through the optics of the English Press and English literary publications.

Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff - My Three Years in America

In manner it was unbending and unconciliatory; in substance, it was a complete rejection of all the British demands. It refused to recommend or propose to the Raad the five-years' franchise and the other provisions which had been defined as the minimum which the Home Government could accept as a fair measure of justice towards the Uitlanders.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct

Besides natural history, this work may be consulted with advantage on the manners, &c. of the natives. Stedman's Narrative of a Five-Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 1772-7. 2 vols. 4to.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson