The Cambridge History of the British Empire: Canada and NewfoundlandJohn Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... effective occupation , and force alone could decide their quarrel unless pacific tendencies at home were strong enough to restrain the local tendencies to conflict . But neither from England nor from France was any definite or ...
... effective occupation , and force alone could decide their quarrel unless pacific tendencies at home were strong enough to restrain the local tendencies to conflict . But neither from England nor from France was any definite or ...
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... effective military organisation and of an adequate executive . In Canada the Governor , if occasionally hampered by ... effective soldiers , while her 15,000 militiamen were better organised and more effective than their British ...
... effective military organisation and of an adequate executive . In Canada the Governor , if occasionally hampered by ... effective soldiers , while her 15,000 militiamen were better organised and more effective than their British ...
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... effective machinery for raising troops or taxes were too much even for Pitt's inspiring exhortations , and performances lagged behind promises . The thirteen colonies had to be united before they could be effective in war . Pitt's ...
... effective machinery for raising troops or taxes were too much even for Pitt's inspiring exhortations , and performances lagged behind promises . The thirteen colonies had to be united before they could be effective in war . Pitt's ...
Contents
THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNICAL | 1 |
The Cordillera | 7 |
Cabot John voyages 1718 120 123 Campbell Sir Alexander 352 479 491 | 9 |
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