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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... claims in that largely unexplored region , and it was mutually agreed that for ten years the Oregon country should be freely open to the citizens of both powers without prejudice to the claims of either . The treaty of 1819 by which ...
... claims in that largely unexplored region , and it was mutually agreed that for ten years the Oregon country should be freely open to the citizens of both powers without prejudice to the claims of either . The treaty of 1819 by which ...
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... claim to Billiton as a dependency of Banka , which had been transferred to the Dutch by article 2 of the Treaty of 1814. Canning denied the validity of this claim , and replied that all the instruments by which Billiton had been ...
... claim to Billiton as a dependency of Banka , which had been transferred to the Dutch by article 2 of the Treaty of 1814. Canning denied the validity of this claim , and replied that all the instruments by which Billiton had been ...
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... claim to the whole , and feeling in the United States ran so high that the slogan " Fifty - four forty or fight " was heard constantly . The grounds of the claim were prior discovery and settlement , the virtual recognition of the title ...
... claim to the whole , and feeling in the United States ran so high that the slogan " Fifty - four forty or fight " was heard constantly . The grounds of the claim were prior discovery and settlement , the virtual recognition of the title ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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