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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RELATIONS WITH 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 commercial treaty with Spain had she been willing , but the possession of a ...
RELATIONS WITH 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 commercial treaty with Spain had she been willing , but the possession of a ...
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crisis of 1786–7 when England and Prussia intervened to restore the stadholder and France was powerless to help her friends of the opposite party . Pitt did not hesitate to use our rising strength and ran the risk of war had not France ...
crisis of 1786–7 when England and Prussia intervened to restore the stadholder and France was powerless to help her friends of the opposite party . Pitt did not hesitate to use our rising strength and ran the risk of war had not France ...
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Whether France desired to secure economic influence over Belgium , or a return to the frontiers of 1814 , or a protectorate over the head of her national religion , or a great position in Africa or farther afield , Britain was always ...
Whether France desired to secure economic influence over Belgium , or a return to the frontiers of 1814 , or a protectorate over the head of her national religion , or a great position in Africa or farther afield , Britain was always ...
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