The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... Algiers . In striking at Algiers , France seemed to the British to be grasping at the control of the whole southern shore of the Mediterranean . The American minister at Paris deplored the threat to " the only plausible motive which can ...
... Algiers . In striking at Algiers , France seemed to the British to be grasping at the control of the whole southern shore of the Mediterranean . The American minister at Paris deplored the threat to " the only plausible motive which can ...
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... Algiers . The successors of Charles X warned Britain frankly that , while the French people valued her alliance , war even with her would be popular if withdrawal from Algiers were the alternative.1 At the same time they gave ...
... Algiers . The successors of Charles X warned Britain frankly that , while the French people valued her alliance , war even with her would be popular if withdrawal from Algiers were the alternative.1 At the same time they gave ...
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... Algiers , both necessary services to Europe , since Algiers had been converted from a nest of pirates into a land where all nations might colonise and grow rice and cotton . Louis Philippe thus spoke in his accustomed character " as a ...
... Algiers , both necessary services to Europe , since Algiers had been converted from a nest of pirates into a land where all nations might colonise and grow rice and cotton . Louis Philippe thus spoke in his accustomed character " as a ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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