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Originally a party to the Treaty of Utrecht, this imperial power soon saw that its provisions in favor of Maritime Rights interfered plainly with that dictatorship of the sea which Britannia was then grasping.
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This passage discusses how a major power recognized that certain treaty provisions conflicted with its maritime ambitions.
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