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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Page 14
... Clive and Warren Hastings a great achievement and were not discouraged by their failure in America from undertaking a far harder task . So the march of empire had not ceased in the West before it was heard in the East , and the same ...
... Clive and Warren Hastings a great achievement and were not discouraged by their failure in America from undertaking a far harder task . So the march of empire had not ceased in the West before it was heard in the East , and the same ...
Page 59
... Clive every far - seeing man had discerned the need of securing a safe naval base as near as possible to the harbourless Coromandel coast . The landlocked harbour of Trincomalee was especially in- viting . To its importance the great ...
... Clive every far - seeing man had discerned the need of securing a safe naval base as near as possible to the harbourless Coromandel coast . The landlocked harbour of Trincomalee was especially in- viting . To its importance the great ...
Page 1017
... Clive , Robert , Baron Clive ( 1725-74 ) , 14 ; 59 ; 193 Clootz , " Anacharsis " , Baron Jean Baptiste du Val de GrĂ¢ce , 55 Clothing , Australian demand for British ( to 1870 ) , 769 Clyde , the , 761 Coal : and steamships , 398 , 403 ...
... Clive , Robert , Baron Clive ( 1725-74 ) , 14 ; 59 ; 193 Clootz , " Anacharsis " , Baron Jean Baptiste du Val de GrĂ¢ce , 55 Clothing , Australian demand for British ( to 1870 ) , 769 Clyde , the , 761 Coal : and steamships , 398 , 403 ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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