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 Io9 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 Io9 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 ...
Page 173
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
dispatch ...
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
dispatch ...
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Contents
THE GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT | 2 |
Climate and Temperature | 9 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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