One purpose of the executive branch is to "<span>command the armed forces", since the President of the United States is also the Commander-in-Chief of the US military. </span>
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It was all foreign powers to have the same chance to trade with China.
The war which occurred in the mid-1800s that weakened the economy of the Ottoman Empire was the Russo-Turkish War, led by the Turks on one side, and Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro on the other.