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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... Italy . Thus , for reasons partly official , partly personal , the strategic advantages accruing from the pos- session of Corsica were lost ; and , as Nelson had foreseen , 1 " the gold mine " , Italy , was now open to the hitherto ...
... Italy . Thus , for reasons partly official , partly personal , the strategic advantages accruing from the pos- session of Corsica were lost ; and , as Nelson had foreseen , 1 " the gold mine " , Italy , was now open to the hitherto ...
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... Italy , the Austrian Lloyd fleet might dominate the shipping of those parts ; but for all that , Britain was sending considerable quantities of coal to Italy and taking in return the Italian oak which was so acceptable to the Admiralty ...
... Italy , the Austrian Lloyd fleet might dominate the shipping of those parts ; but for all that , Britain was sending considerable quantities of coal to Italy and taking in return the Italian oak which was so acceptable to the Admiralty ...
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... Italy's predestined capital ( 20 Sept. 1870 ) . A few weeks later , just after the fall of Metz , the Czar Alexander ... Italy , estranged from France but friendly to Great Britain , and perhaps by the new German Empire to which Italy ...
... Italy's predestined capital ( 20 Sept. 1870 ) . A few weeks later , just after the fall of Metz , the Czar Alexander ... Italy , estranged from France but friendly to Great Britain , and perhaps by the new German Empire to which Italy ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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