The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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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 more prominent position in ...
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 more prominent position in ...
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Probably Pitt and his colleagues soon tired of holding that hornets ' nest ; for in his speech of 9 December 1795 he named Martinique , Cape Nicholas Mole and the Cape of Good Hope as the great acquisitions of the war , and made no ...
Probably Pitt and his colleagues soon tired of holding that hornets ' nest ; for in his speech of 9 December 1795 he named Martinique , Cape Nicholas Mole and the Cape of Good Hope as the great acquisitions of the war , and made no ...
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Cape of Good Hope ( see also under South Canada Act ( 1791 ) , see Canada , Govern Africa ) : 32 ; 37 ; 70 ; 77 ; 90 ; 101 ; 167 ; ment 168 ; 483 Canada Land Company , 283 , 442 , 444 , Acquisition ( 1796 ) , 56–9 ; restoration to 445 ...
Cape of Good Hope ( see also under South Canada Act ( 1791 ) , see Canada , Govern Africa ) : 32 ; 37 ; 70 ; 77 ; 90 ; 101 ; 167 ; ment 168 ; 483 Canada Land Company , 283 , 442 , 444 , Acquisition ( 1796 ) , 56–9 ; restoration to 445 ...
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