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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... Russia with her possibilities of overland communication into Central Asia . This coming change soon cast a faint ... Russia's southward expansion . In the spring of 1791 we were on the verge of a Russian war . " This little Britain ...
... Russia with her possibilities of overland communication into Central Asia . This coming change soon cast a faint ... Russia's southward expansion . In the spring of 1791 we were on the verge of a Russian war . " This little Britain ...
Page 121
... Russia must come in spite of the desires of both Emperors , had calmly surveyed the vital neces- sities of Russia , he would have seen that her people , least of all , could do without colonial produce , and he would have humoured her ...
... Russia must come in spite of the desires of both Emperors , had calmly surveyed the vital neces- sities of Russia , he would have seen that her people , least of all , could do without colonial produce , and he would have humoured her ...
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... Russia . In the end Mehemet Ali , already master of the Suez route to the East , kept Syria , Damascus , and Aleppo , the gateway to the Euphrates valley and the Persian Gulf , while Russia bound the Sultan by the Treaty of Unkiar ...
... Russia . In the end Mehemet Ali , already master of the Suez route to the East , kept Syria , Damascus , and Aleppo , the gateway to the Euphrates valley and the Persian Gulf , while Russia bound the Sultan by the Treaty of Unkiar ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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