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RELATIONS WITH FRANCE 31 hardly of the other . No doubt Pitt was thinking of trade rather than of colonisation , and would gladly have gone on to negotiate a commercial treaty with Spain had she been willing , but the possession of a ...
RELATIONS WITH FRANCE 31 hardly of the other . No doubt Pitt was thinking of trade rather than of colonisation , and would gladly have gone on to negotiate a commercial treaty with Spain had she been willing , but the possession of a ...
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crisis of 1786–7 when England and Prussia intervened to restore the stadholder and France was powerless to help her friends of the opposite party.1 Pitt did not hesitate to use our rising strength and ran the risk of war had not France ...
crisis of 1786–7 when England and Prussia intervened to restore the stadholder and France was powerless to help her friends of the opposite party.1 Pitt did not hesitate to use our rising strength and ran the risk of war had not France ...
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When he suggested that France should give Britain a free hand in Asia Minor and America , in return for liberty to extend Christian domination in Morocco , Britain replied that it was impossible to bind future administrations , or to ...
When he suggested that France should give Britain a free hand in Asia Minor and America , in return for liberty to extend Christian domination in Morocco , Britain replied that it was impossible to bind future administrations , or to ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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