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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... direct trade with England . Leave for that desirable measure was not forthcoming from London till July 1826 after Somerset's departure from the colony . In the course of 1825 his government issued the promised land titles , relieved the ...
... direct trade with England . Leave for that desirable measure was not forthcoming from London till July 1826 after Somerset's departure from the colony . In the course of 1825 his government issued the promised land titles , relieved the ...
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... direct or indirect , over Delagoa Bay and its vital railway.1 The Imperial Government decided to take no risks . It sent Sir Alfred Milner to Cape Town as High Commissioner , dispatched a strong squadron to Delagoa Bay to show that it ...
... direct or indirect , over Delagoa Bay and its vital railway.1 The Imperial Government decided to take no risks . It sent Sir Alfred Milner to Cape Town as High Commissioner , dispatched a strong squadron to Delagoa Bay to show that it ...
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... direct pressure to bear on a land where political authority had been divorced dangerously from economic power . It chose the latter alternative and , during the war that followed , annexed the two Boer republics ( 1900 ) . For a short ...
... direct pressure to bear on a land where political authority had been divorced dangerously from economic power . It chose the latter alternative and , during the war that followed , annexed the two Boer republics ( 1900 ) . For a short ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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