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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... refuse a claim for this limited occupation of an island , the plans for the neutralisation of which had utterly ... refused the British claim , obviously he was bent on some object of transcendent importance , in the prosecution of ...
... refuse a claim for this limited occupation of an island , the plans for the neutralisation of which had utterly ... refused the British claim , obviously he was bent on some object of transcendent importance , in the prosecution of ...
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... refused to accept a legisla- ture from which they , the majority of the electorate , were excluded . French candidates were elected to the Assembly , but were refused admission . The island was in a tumult . In alarm the Grenada 1 ...
... refused to accept a legisla- ture from which they , the majority of the electorate , were excluded . French candidates were elected to the Assembly , but were refused admission . The island was in a tumult . In alarm the Grenada 1 ...
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... refused to pay more than 1s . old . with the result that their negroes refused to work at all at that rate ; on others the negroes 1 Pringle , Hall , The Fall of the Sugar Planters of Jamaica , p . 53 . THE WAGES OF PLANTATION LABOUR ...
... refused to pay more than 1s . old . with the result that their negroes refused to work at all at that rate ; on others the negroes 1 Pringle , Hall , The Fall of the Sugar Planters of Jamaica , p . 53 . THE WAGES OF PLANTATION LABOUR ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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