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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... Persian Gulf . Dreams such as these had found partial fulfilment in Napoleon's Egypto - Syrian campaign and in his later schemes for an advance upon India by France and Russia in alliance with Persia , whose Shah still claimed to be ...
... Persian Gulf . Dreams such as these had found partial fulfilment in Napoleon's Egypto - Syrian campaign and in his later schemes for an advance upon India by France and Russia in alliance with Persia , whose Shah still claimed to be ...
Page 573
... Persia and Afghanistan . At last the Persians besieged Afghan Herat ( Nov. 1837 ) . Lord Auckland , Bentinck's successor , promptly despatched an expedition to the Persian Gulf , and followed that up by treaties with Ranjit Singh and ...
... Persia and Afghanistan . At last the Persians besieged Afghan Herat ( Nov. 1837 ) . Lord Auckland , Bentinck's successor , promptly despatched an expedition to the Persian Gulf , and followed that up by treaties with Ranjit Singh and ...
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... Persian frontiers . It was in Persia and still more in India itself that grave peril now threatened the British . Bahadur Shah the Mogul , believing with justice that John Company intended to make an end of his shadowy office , had ...
... Persian frontiers . It was in Persia and still more in India itself that grave peril now threatened the British . Bahadur Shah the Mogul , believing with justice that John Company intended to make an end of his shadowy office , had ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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