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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... alliance . They hoped to obtain Trincomalee from the Dutch and recover their position on the Coromandel Coast . Hence the importance of the struggle in these years for influence in Holland . The issue was to remain throughout the ...
... alliance . They hoped to obtain Trincomalee from the Dutch and recover their position on the Coromandel Coast . Hence the importance of the struggle in these years for influence in Holland . The issue was to remain throughout the ...
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... alliance offensive and defensive against Great Britain for ever " , the French guarantee of the " independence " of the new Republic was farcical . This alliance was unknown to Elphinstone , when , after joining Blankett near the Cape ...
... alliance offensive and defensive against Great Britain for ever " , the French guarantee of the " independence " of the new Republic was farcical . This alliance was unknown to Elphinstone , when , after joining Blankett near the Cape ...
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... alliance - on the side of Portugal and Spain . Palmerston's Quadruple Alliance of 1834 belonged to that class of covenants of which the late Triple Alliance is the most famous , in which states whose dissonance is incurable become ...
... alliance - on the side of Portugal and Spain . Palmerston's Quadruple Alliance of 1834 belonged to that class of covenants of which the late Triple Alliance is the most famous , in which states whose dissonance is incurable become ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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