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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In the late summer of 1802 a statesman of remarkable insight had been probing the situation created by Napoleon's ... Castlereagh , the political heir of Pitt and the future protagonist of Europe against Napoleon , even now judged that ...
In the late summer of 1802 a statesman of remarkable insight had been probing the situation created by Napoleon's ... Castlereagh , the political heir of Pitt and the future protagonist of Europe against Napoleon , even now judged that ...
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NAPOLEON'S RUPTURE WITH ALEXANDER 12 i that incoming vessels took back Russian produce exceeding by onethird the value of their imported cargoes . The outcry against Napoleon's fiscal decrees increased daily ; and on May 28 ( O.S. ) ...
NAPOLEON'S RUPTURE WITH ALEXANDER 12 i that incoming vessels took back Russian produce exceeding by onethird the value of their imported cargoes . The outcry against Napoleon's fiscal decrees increased daily ; and on May 28 ( O.S. ) ...
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with Russia — all these were perhaps surpassed in ultimate importance by the increase in British distrust of Napoleon . The year 1852 , which opened thus inauspiciously for the entente , saw the Empire in fact proclaimed , but the ...
with Russia — all these were perhaps surpassed in ultimate importance by the increase in British distrust of Napoleon . The year 1852 , which opened thus inauspiciously for the entente , saw the Empire in fact proclaimed , but the ...
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