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The attempts of eighteenth - century legislators to make the Old Empire more nearly self - sufficing in flax and hemp had been even less successful than their attempt to make it self - sufficing in timber .
The attempts of eighteenth - century legislators to make the Old Empire more nearly self - sufficing in flax and hemp had been even less successful than their attempt to make it self - sufficing in timber .
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A superficial study of a long succession of maps , made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , in which the whole ... to the framework supplied by Ptolemy's map in the second century A.D. The distortion is seen at its worst ...
A superficial study of a long succession of maps , made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , in which the whole ... to the framework supplied by Ptolemy's map in the second century A.D. The distortion is seen at its worst ...
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CHAPTER XXII IMPERIAL DEFENCE , 1815-1870 IN the ceaseless colonial warfare of the eighteenth century Great Britain acquired the strategic and economic framework on which her future empire was to be based . Eighteenth - century strategy ...
CHAPTER XXII IMPERIAL DEFENCE , 1815-1870 IN the ceaseless colonial warfare of the eighteenth century Great Britain acquired the strategic and economic framework on which her future empire was to be based . Eighteenth - century strategy ...
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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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