The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1963 - Great Britain |
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Page 108
A detailed study of the incoming of Dutch and English into African and Indian waters lies beyond our present purpose , but we may appropriately say something of how that vast maritime struggle affected Portugal's position in East and ...
A detailed study of the incoming of Dutch and English into African and Indian waters lies beyond our present purpose , but we may appropriately say something of how that vast maritime struggle affected Portugal's position in East and ...
Page 109
DUTCH ATTACKS ON ANGOLA 109 to trying to keep off the English from Surat or the Dutch from Ceylon . They could get no reinforcements direct from Portugal , for Spain made all Portuguese resources subservient to her disastrous European ...
DUTCH ATTACKS ON ANGOLA 109 to trying to keep off the English from Surat or the Dutch from Ceylon . They could get no reinforcements direct from Portugal , for Spain made all Portuguese resources subservient to her disastrous European ...
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On May 23 P. J. Guepin , Chief Advocate of the Dutch Company , wrote to Lord Auckland supplying the desired information , but much exaggerating the military strength at the Cape and rehearsing all the previous arguments against the ...
On May 23 P. J. Guepin , Chief Advocate of the Dutch Company , wrote to Lord Auckland supplying the desired information , but much exaggerating the military strength at the Cape and rehearsing all the previous arguments against the ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
Copyright | |
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