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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... hands , had proved an invaluable place of succour to hostile squadrons , enabling them to arrive in Indian waters in better condition than ours . " Whichever Power has the Cape may govern India " -such was the verdict of the East India ...
... hands , had proved an invaluable place of succour to hostile squadrons , enabling them to arrive in Indian waters in better condition than ours . " Whichever Power has the Cape may govern India " -such was the verdict of the East India ...
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... hands of Great Britain and she was confronted with the task of ruling non- British Europeans and a non - European population , she devised modes of government which were based upon that dual experience . More- over , the appreciation of ...
... hands of Great Britain and she was confronted with the task of ruling non- British Europeans and a non - European population , she devised modes of government which were based upon that dual experience . More- over , the appreciation of ...
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... hands of the new rising Power , and in the interior of North America only the United States and Great Britain were left to colonize the richest unoccupied territories in the world . In the later negotiations concerning the Louisiana ...
... hands of the new rising Power , and in the interior of North America only the United States and Great Britain were left to colonize the richest unoccupied territories in the world . In the later negotiations concerning the Louisiana ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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