The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1940 - Commonwealth countries |
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... Americans during the critical period of their history could not do so effectively . However valuable American trade was to England , English trade was vital to America . To have lost it would have imperilled the new constitution . The ...
... Americans during the critical period of their history could not do so effectively . However valuable American trade was to England , English trade was vital to America . To have lost it would have imperilled the new constitution . The ...
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... American sympathy strongly on the side of the French . Faced with the danger of another American war , Pitt's Cabinet was willing to come to terms , and Washington , no less eager to avoid European entanglements and to find a peaceful ...
... American sympathy strongly on the side of the French . Faced with the danger of another American war , Pitt's Cabinet was willing to come to terms , and Washington , no less eager to avoid European entanglements and to find a peaceful ...
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... American emigration across the Great Lakes into the fertile lands of Upper Canada was arrested , and their settlement was henceforward under the undisputed lead of the United Empire Loyalists , who had victoriously opposed an American ...
... American emigration across the Great Lakes into the fertile lands of Upper Canada was arrested , and their settlement was henceforward under the undisputed lead of the United Empire Loyalists , who had victoriously opposed an American ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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