The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 4John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 22
... able to capture and hold them . Such a state of affairs was , no doubt , very greatly to the advantage of the Portuguese , who were able to play one chief off against another , as we have seen in the case of Surat . Although Humayun had ...
... able to capture and hold them . Such a state of affairs was , no doubt , very greatly to the advantage of the Portuguese , who were able to play one chief off against another , as we have seen in the case of Surat . Although Humayun had ...
Page 71
... able to secure all that was needed , and make good the complete lack of goods and money in which he was left by the Company , at a time when the Company was in great straits and obliged to abandon not only Caron's factory at Bantam but ...
... able to secure all that was needed , and make good the complete lack of goods and money in which he was left by the Company , at a time when the Company was in great straits and obliged to abandon not only Caron's factory at Bantam but ...
Page 127
... able to seize the treasury , he had also been able to secure his accession , and was pre- paring to dispute his nephew's claims , both of them resting their rights on a real or alleged investiture by the Moghul . Nasir Jang had not at ...
... able to seize the treasury , he had also been able to secure his accession , and was pre- paring to dispute his nephew's claims , both of them resting their rights on a real or alleged investiture by the Moghul . Nasir Jang had not at ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz | 12 |
Later governors | 19 |
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