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 g 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 g 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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... 636 , 637 , 641 , 642 , 648 , 650 , 1814 ) , 92 ; 157 651 , 659-66 ; and treatment of native Hope ( ship ) , first South African coasting races , 686 ; 696 ; and mitigation of steamer , 412 warfare , 881 Hope , G. W. , Parliamentary ...
... 636 , 637 , 641 , 642 , 648 , 650 , 1814 ) , 92 ; 157 651 , 659-66 ; and treatment of native Hope ( ship ) , first South African coasting races , 686 ; 696 ; and mitigation of steamer , 412 warfare , 881 Hope , G. W. , Parliamentary ...
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