The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1936 - Great Britain |
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... Britain participated in a new and universally guaranteed equilibrium . 1 The future of Holland and the Dutch Empire was a factor common to both the European settlement and to that overseas . The fulcrum of Castlereagh's new balance of ...
... Britain participated in a new and universally guaranteed equilibrium . 1 The future of Holland and the Dutch Empire was a factor common to both the European settlement and to that overseas . The fulcrum of Castlereagh's new balance of ...
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... Britain , that of £ 3,000,000 , was revealed in a separate Convention with the Nether- lands and Russia , dated 19 May 1815.3 During the war Russia had raised a loan in Amsterdam , on account of which she owed 80 million florins to ...
... Britain , that of £ 3,000,000 , was revealed in a separate Convention with the Nether- lands and Russia , dated 19 May 1815.3 During the war Russia had raised a loan in Amsterdam , on account of which she owed 80 million florins to ...
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... Britain , Holland was treated with moderation , if not with generosity , because of her buffer position in Europe ... Britain's strategic control of the trade routes of her Empire.1 The colony was thus retained , not merely because ...
... Britain , Holland was treated with moderation , if not with generosity , because of her buffer position in Europe ... Britain's strategic control of the trade routes of her Empire.1 The colony was thus retained , not merely because ...
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