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 454
... territory if the claim to control the gum trade , which the English merchants had desired , was to be made effective . The great value of this trade in the eighteenth century was due to the importance of gum in the finishing processes ...
... territory if the claim to control the gum trade , which the English merchants had desired , was to be made effective . The great value of this trade in the eighteenth century was due to the importance of gum in the finishing processes ...
Page 540
... territory ; belonging to a person , when he has a fleet which commands that part of the sea ; belonging to a territory , in so far as those who sail in that part of the sea can be compelled from the shore as if they were on land " .1 ...
... territory ; belonging to a person , when he has a fleet which commands that part of the sea ; belonging to a territory , in so far as those who sail in that part of the sea can be compelled from the shore as if they were on land " .1 ...
Page 771
... territory on the east side of the Mississippi belonged to Great Britain ; and that their own western boundary was the line to which settlements were permitted by the British Proclamation of 1763.1 His successor , La Luzerne , also ...
... territory on the east side of the Mississippi belonged to Great Britain ; and that their own western boundary was the line to which settlements were permitted by the British Proclamation of 1763.1 His successor , La Luzerne , also ...
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