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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 87
Page 31
... FRANCE 31 hardly of the other . No doubt Pitt was thinking of trade rather than of colonisation , and would gladly have gone on to negotiate a com- mercial treaty with Spain had she been willing , but the possession of a " window on the ...
... FRANCE 31 hardly of the other . No doubt Pitt was thinking of trade rather than of colonisation , and would gladly have gone on to negotiate a com- mercial treaty with Spain had she been willing , but the possession of a " window on the ...
Page 554
... France and to his new- born heir none the less preserved his loyalty to the entente . Early in 1856 he had declared that the days when France coveted Madagascar and other islands had gone by , and he acted accordingly . He himself and ...
... France and to his new- born heir none the less preserved his loyalty to the entente . Early in 1856 he had declared that the days when France coveted Madagascar and other islands had gone by , and he acted accordingly . He himself and ...
Page 1002
... France . Mauritius , 1874 . GRANT , C. , Baron de Vaux . Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Century . Mau- ritius , 1886 . HITIÉ , E. Histoire de Maurice . Port Louis , 1897 . HUET DE FROBERVILLE , L. L'Ile de France : le combat ...
... France . Mauritius , 1874 . GRANT , C. , Baron de Vaux . Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Century . Mau- ritius , 1886 . HITIÉ , E. Histoire de Maurice . Port Louis , 1897 . HUET DE FROBERVILLE , L. L'Ile de France : le combat ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abolition administration Africa American apprenticeship Assembly Australia Barbados bill Britain British Government British Guiana Canada Canadian Cape capital century Ceylon CHBE coast coffee Colonial Office colonists commercial Company constitution convicts cotton Council Crown Crown Colony defence despatch Dundas Dutch duties East India economic emigration Empire England English established estates European export favour force foreign France French Governor Grey Hansard Ibid immigration imperial important increased India interest island Jamaica labour land Legislative legislatures London Lord Malta Mauritius ment merchants Ministers mother country Napoleon native naval negroes North Palmerston Parl Parliament peace Pitt planters political population ports Raffles railway reform Report Russell Russia Secretary secure Select Committee seqq settlement ships Sierra Leone slave trade slavery South Wales Spain St Lucia sugar supply tion transportation treaty Trinidad troops United United Kingdom West Indian West Indies Wilberforce Zealand