The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The growth of the new Empire, l783-1870Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians The University Press, 1940 - Great Britain |
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... France " , he not only asserted a great principle and procured a settlement of a long - vexed question , but he also incidentally dissolved an ancient and formidable combination against our colonial power . For the great steps that were ...
... France " , he not only asserted a great principle and procured a settlement of a long - vexed question , but he also incidentally dissolved an ancient and formidable combination against our colonial power . For the great steps that were ...
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... France was powerless to help her friends of the opposite party.1 Pitt did not hesitate to use our rising strength and ran the risk of war had not France drawn back . So England recovered her traditional ally and was proportionately ...
... France was powerless to help her friends of the opposite party.1 Pitt did not hesitate to use our rising strength and ran the risk of war had not France drawn back . So England recovered her traditional ally and was proportionately ...
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... France . Mauritius , 1874 . GRANT , C. , Baron de Vaux . Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Century . Mau- ritius , 1886 . HITIÉ , E. Histoire de Maurice . Port Louis , 1897 . HUET DE FROBERVILLE , L. L'Ile de France : le combat ...
... France . Mauritius , 1874 . GRANT , C. , Baron de Vaux . Letters from Mauritius in the Eighteenth Century . Mau- ritius , 1886 . HITIÉ , E. Histoire de Maurice . Port Louis , 1897 . HUET DE FROBERVILLE , L. L'Ile de France : le combat ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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