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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... Napoleon's offer of peace in 1806 because it involved the sacrifice of a less important strategic centre , Sicily . In the late summer of 1802 a statesman of remarkable insight had been probing the situation created by Napoleon's ...
... Napoleon's offer of peace in 1806 because it involved the sacrifice of a less important strategic centre , Sicily . In the late summer of 1802 a statesman of remarkable insight had been probing the situation created by Napoleon's ...
Page 98
... Napoleon and gave him the prospect of conquering by sheer mass . That event also opened out the vista of the partition of Portugal and her colonies between the French and Spaniards - a bait which Napoleon dangled before the Court of ...
... Napoleon and gave him the prospect of conquering by sheer mass . That event also opened out the vista of the partition of Portugal and her colonies between the French and Spaniards - a bait which Napoleon dangled before the Court of ...
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... Napoleon , and the successors of William of Orange could hardly contest his title . The reports of the rapture shown at his presence in rural France counted for more than even the figures of the ballot . There was much indeed in Napoleon's ...
... Napoleon , and the successors of William of Orange could hardly contest his title . The reports of the rapture shown at his presence in rural France counted for more than even the figures of the ballot . There was much indeed in Napoleon's ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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