The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1959 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... object , that of bolstering up Austria and thus of deterring Russia , that in December 1887 , after renewed rumours of impending Russian action against Bulgaria since the previous summer , he signed the so - called Second Mediterranean ...
... object , that of bolstering up Austria and thus of deterring Russia , that in December 1887 , after renewed rumours of impending Russian action against Bulgaria since the previous summer , he signed the so - called Second Mediterranean ...
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... object of the Commission was always subsidiary to its real object , and its main achievement not the much - praised Treaty of Washington but the arbitration of the Civil War claims , for which that treaty provided , at Geneva . When ...
... object of the Commission was always subsidiary to its real object , and its main achievement not the much - praised Treaty of Washington but the arbitration of the Civil War claims , for which that treaty provided , at Geneva . When ...
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... Object No. 2 is " , he declared , “ the principal obstacle to the attainmen of object No. 1 and always has been . " He wanted to preserve the Bechuana and Basuto in their tribal lands from Rhodes and the Bond ; he was scandalised by the ...
... Object No. 2 is " , he declared , “ the principal obstacle to the attainmen of object No. 1 and always has been . " He wanted to preserve the Bechuana and Basuto in their tribal lands from Rhodes and the Bond ; he was scandalised by the ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 11 |
CHAPTER II | 17 |
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