Perhaps the greatest reason for the creation of corporations is that it limits the liability of the individuals who both the corporation and the shareholders. The most a shareholder can lose in the value of his investment in the company. This provides and incentive to invest.
These engines were very useful to move machinery in mills, factories, pumping stations and transportationapplications. In the field of transport,steam engines were often used inlocomotives, ships and other land vehicles. Steam machines were of great importance in their application in the field of agriculture.
The first emperor, Augustus, reduced the size of the senate from 900<span> members to </span>600<span>, even though there were only about </span>100<span> to </span>200<span> active senators at one time.
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The Anglo-Boer War or Second Boer War was fought between 1899 and 1902 by the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.
At the beginning of the conflict the British were overconfident while the Boer states were very well prepared. In the end, the British managed to defeat the Boers and the two states were incorporated to the Union of South Africa, part of the British Empire, in 1910.
