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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... secure supremacy in the Adriatic and pave the way for a partition of the Turkish Empire.3 In vain did Foresti warn us to forestall the enemy at Corfu and secure the allegiance of 200,000 devoted Greeks , most of them good seamen . Also ...
... secure supremacy in the Adriatic and pave the way for a partition of the Turkish Empire.3 In vain did Foresti warn us to forestall the enemy at Corfu and secure the allegiance of 200,000 devoted Greeks , most of them good seamen . Also ...
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... secure - an immense power vested in the Government , but one absolutely necessary under the circumstances of the country . " The details of the local government of the islands need not detain us , for , as Maitland remarked , they were ...
... secure - an immense power vested in the Government , but one absolutely necessary under the circumstances of the country . " The details of the local government of the islands need not detain us , for , as Maitland remarked , they were ...
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... secure the co - operation of the Assembly in his policy , by entrusting its administration to such men as could command a majority ; and if he were given to understand that he need count on no aid from home in any difference with the ...
... secure the co - operation of the Assembly in his policy , by entrusting its administration to such men as could command a majority ; and if he were given to understand that he need count on no aid from home in any difference with the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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