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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... RUSSIA 13 dominion in Asia . Our Government was urged to get Egypt , build up in Western Asia the trade we had lost in America and possess the two gardens of the world , Bengal and Egypt.1 The Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon equally took a ...
... RUSSIA 13 dominion in Asia . Our Government was urged to get Egypt , build up in Western Asia the trade we had lost in America and possess the two gardens of the world , Bengal and Egypt.1 The Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon equally took a ...
Page 121
... Russia must come in spite of the desires of both Emperors , had calmly surveyed the vital neces- sities of Russia , he would have seen that her people , least of all , could do without colonial produce , and he would have humoured her ...
... Russia must come in spite of the desires of both Emperors , had calmly surveyed the vital neces- sities of Russia , he would have seen that her people , least of all , could do without colonial produce , and he would have humoured her ...
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... Russia . In the end Mehemet Ali , already master of the Suez route to the East , kept Syria , Damascus , and Aleppo , the gateway to the Euphrates valley and the Persian Gulf , while Russia bound the Sultan by the Treaty of Unkiar ...
... Russia . In the end Mehemet Ali , already master of the Suez route to the East , kept Syria , Damascus , and Aleppo , the gateway to the Euphrates valley and the Persian Gulf , while Russia bound the Sultan by the Treaty of Unkiar ...
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