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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Page 55
... Italy . Thus , for reasons partly official , partly personal , the strategic advantages accruing from the pos- session of Corsica were lost ; and , as Nelson had foreseen , 1 " the gold mine " , Italy , was now open to the hitherto ...
... Italy . Thus , for reasons partly official , partly personal , the strategic advantages accruing from the pos- session of Corsica were lost ; and , as Nelson had foreseen , 1 " the gold mine " , Italy , was now open to the hitherto ...
Page 556
... Italians , and he believed that until Italy was settled his own dynasty would never be secure . To give Sardinia the Adriatic for her frontier , moreover , would entitle France to receive her own natural frontier of the Alps , by the ...
... Italians , and he believed that until Italy was settled his own dynasty would never be secure . To give Sardinia the Adriatic for her frontier , moreover , would entitle France to receive her own natural frontier of the Alps , by the ...
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... Italy's predestined capital ( 20 Sept. 1870 ) . A few weeks later , just after the fall of Metz , the Czar Alexander ... Italy , estranged from France but friendly to Great Britain , and perhaps by the new German Empire to which Italy ...
... Italy's predestined capital ( 20 Sept. 1870 ) . A few weeks later , just after the fall of Metz , the Czar Alexander ... Italy , estranged from France but friendly to Great Britain , and perhaps by the new German Empire to which Italy ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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