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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... attempted , among other things , to put down the illicit trade in Bengal opium by allowing officials to form an ... attempts ended in failure , but , as the eighteenth century proceeded , just when the Dutch had allowed their navy ...
... attempted , among other things , to put down the illicit trade in Bengal opium by allowing officials to form an ... attempts ended in failure , but , as the eighteenth century proceeded , just when the Dutch had allowed their navy ...
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... attempt on the part of the Catholic powers to infringe the monopoly claimed by Lisbon ; and if the union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal in 1580 exposed the latter to the attacks of the revolted Netherlands , on the other hand it ...
... attempt on the part of the Catholic powers to infringe the monopoly claimed by Lisbon ; and if the union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal in 1580 exposed the latter to the attacks of the revolted Netherlands , on the other hand it ...
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... attempted before in the period of confusion at the beginning of the century , of establishing a rotation government ... attempt of the Dutch to supplant English influence with the nawab . Although the centre of Dutch power and wealth ...
... attempted before in the period of confusion at the beginning of the century , of establishing a rotation government ... attempt of the Dutch to supplant English influence with the nawab . Although the centre of Dutch power and wealth ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz | 12 |
Later governors | 19 |
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