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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... Raffles thought that a payment in money equivalent to about two - fifths of the annual gross rice produce of the soil would prove a suitable and equitable standard of assessment , the cultivator being relieved of all obligations to ...
... Raffles thought that a payment in money equivalent to about two - fifths of the annual gross rice produce of the soil would prove a suitable and equitable standard of assessment , the cultivator being relieved of all obligations to ...
Page 599
Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians. RAFFLES'S POLICY 599 predecessor , compounding for the slaughter of their countrymen by a fine of 500,000 dollars . Raffles had entered into a treaty with the sultan by which the garrison ...
Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians. RAFFLES'S POLICY 599 predecessor , compounding for the slaughter of their countrymen by a fine of 500,000 dollars . Raffles had entered into a treaty with the sultan by which the garrison ...
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... Raffles to take precautions against the " manifest endeavours [ of the Dutch ] to establish an absolute supremacy to our exclusion " .1 This was the result of a visit which Raffles had paid to Calcutta in the latter part of 1818. In ...
... Raffles to take precautions against the " manifest endeavours [ of the Dutch ] to establish an absolute supremacy to our exclusion " .1 This was the result of a visit which Raffles had paid to Calcutta in the latter part of 1818. In ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The growth of the new Empire, l783-1870 Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians |
| Contributor | John Holland Rose |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1940 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2008 |
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