The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... French ports , and undoubtedly obtained there a stock of information about Africa , Brazil and the West Indies , where French intruders were busy throughout the reign of Francis I. In spite of the wars with France , there is little ...
... French ports , and undoubtedly obtained there a stock of information about Africa , Brazil and the West Indies , where French intruders were busy throughout the reign of Francis I. In spite of the wars with France , there is little ...
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... French war of 1544-6 . Portugal was at length taking the colonisation of the country in hand , and was sending out warships to stop intruders . In addition , the war made freebooting in home waters more profitable than distant trading ...
... French war of 1544-6 . Portugal was at length taking the colonisation of the country in hand , and was sending out warships to stop intruders . In addition , the war made freebooting in home waters more profitable than distant trading ...
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... French merchantmen , and now they began to take Spaniards and Flemings and even Portuguese on the charge of carrying French goods . Some did not trouble to make the excuse . One of them took a treasure ship from the West Indies with a ...
... French merchantmen , and now they began to take Spaniards and Flemings and even Portuguese on the charge of carrying French goods . Some did not trouble to make the excuse . One of them took a treasure ship from the West Indies with a ...
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... French and the Dutch competed with England for control of the North American coast and its fur trade and fisheries . Dutch expeditions and notably that commanded by the Englishman , Henry Hudson , were busily exploring the coast to the ...
... French and the Dutch competed with England for control of the North American coast and its fur trade and fisheries . Dutch expeditions and notably that commanded by the Englishman , Henry Hudson , were busily exploring the coast to the ...
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... French joined forces to defend themselves , but they were out- numbered and could make only an ineffectual resistance . Some of the settlers fled to the hills , but many hundreds of prisoners were taken and both the English and French ...
... French joined forces to defend themselves , but they were out- numbered and could make only an ineffectual resistance . Some of the settlers fled to the hills , but many hundreds of prisoners were taken and both the English and French ...
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Page 660 - let the sovereign authority of this country be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever—except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 97 - no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate, Letters should not be known, riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: • *•*•• • All things in common Nature should produce Without sweat or
Page 658 - and with the advice and consent of Parliament, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonys...
Page 190 - should be regulated as between themselves. The principle was that the discovery gave title to the Government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Page 777 - by a line drawn due north from its source to the highlands, "which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean". The
Page 329 - The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbados, the infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.. . . The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates..
Page 536 - with the consent of the natives to take possession of convenient situations in the country in the name of the King of Great Britain; or, if you find the country uninhabited, take possession for His Majesty by setting up proper marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and possessors".
Page 181 - For that their [the Spaniards'] having touched only here and there upon a coast, and given names to a few rivers or capes, were such insignificant things as could in no ways entitle them to a propriety further than in the parts where they actually settled and continued to inhabit.
Page 149 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America", which
Page 154 - In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and carriage in others; but they were soon quelled and overcome by the wisdom, patience and just and equal carriage of things by the governor and better part which clave faithfully together in the main.