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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Page 544
... position , and so long as they were unsubdued the effective possession of the region north of the Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi could not be attributed to either English or French . In the main the Iroquois sided with ...
... position , and so long as they were unsubdued the effective possession of the region north of the Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi could not be attributed to either English or French . In the main the Iroquois sided with ...
Page 548
... position in time of war of enemy goods carried in neutral ships , and of neutral goods carried in enemy ships . From the middle of the seventeenth century onwards until the middle of the nineteenth there was a constant endeavour on the ...
... position in time of war of enemy goods carried in neutral ships , and of neutral goods carried in enemy ships . From the middle of the seventeenth century onwards until the middle of the nineteenth there was a constant endeavour on the ...
Page 731
... position at Stillwater , ten miles south of Saratoga . Burgoyne had little over 5000 effectives while his opponent Gates , who had recently secured the command by intrigue rather than merit , had nearer 14,000 , for as Burgoyne advanced ...
... position at Stillwater , ten miles south of Saratoga . Burgoyne had little over 5000 effectives while his opponent Gates , who had recently secured the command by intrigue rather than merit , had nearer 14,000 , for as Burgoyne advanced ...
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