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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The despatch of a warship to Angra Pequeña was suggested , in order that German intervention might not be excused by the absence of British protection . Again , on July 16 , the Cape Parliament voted unanimously for the annexation of ...
The despatch of a warship to Angra Pequeña was suggested , in order that German intervention might not be excused by the absence of British protection . Again , on July 16 , the Cape Parliament voted unanimously for the annexation of ...
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Some members of the German Colonial Party , who regarded the Boers as a Germanic people and dreamed of a broad belt of Teutonic territory stretching across Africa from east to west , sympathised openly with the republic's difficulties ...
Some members of the German Colonial Party , who regarded the Boers as a Germanic people and dreamed of a broad belt of Teutonic territory stretching across Africa from east to west , sympathised openly with the republic's difficulties ...
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South - West Africa in German hands would be a constant source of danger not only to the Union but to the Empire as a whole , and the imperial authorities were anxious to effect its conquest as speedily as possible , for it lay athwart ...
South - West Africa in German hands would be a constant source of danger not only to the Union but to the Empire as a whole , and the imperial authorities were anxious to effect its conquest as speedily as possible , for it lay athwart ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
Copyright | |
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