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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Page 199
... obtained by the humanitarians in England before committing themselves . And , if France held back , it was useless to press the question on Spain and Holland . Abolition , it was becoming evident , could not be carried with a rush ...
... obtained by the humanitarians in England before committing themselves . And , if France held back , it was useless to press the question on Spain and Holland . Abolition , it was becoming evident , could not be carried with a rush ...
Page 283
... obtained nearly 2,500,000 acres in Upper Canada at a low price on condition that roads should be built , other improvements made , and settlers brought out . Similar companies were later organised to operate in Lower Canada and in ...
... obtained nearly 2,500,000 acres in Upper Canada at a low price on condition that roads should be built , other improvements made , and settlers brought out . Similar companies were later organised to operate in Lower Canada and in ...
Page 823
... obtain a wider arc of fire than that obtained by the broadside system . For some years every solution was blocked by the continued use of masts , spars and sails , but in 1869 the Admiralty laid down the Devastation , possessing one ...
... obtain a wider arc of fire than that obtained by the broadside system . For some years every solution was blocked by the continued use of masts , spars and sails , but in 1869 the Admiralty laid down the Devastation , possessing one ...
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