The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... object , that of bolstering up Austria and thus of deterring Russia , that in December 1887 , after renewed rumours of impending Russian action against Bulgaria since the previous summer , he signed the so - called Second Mediterranean ...
... object , that of bolstering up Austria and thus of deterring Russia , that in December 1887 , after renewed rumours of impending Russian action against Bulgaria since the previous summer , he signed the so - called Second Mediterranean ...
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... object of the Commission was always subsidiary to its real object , and its main achievement not the much - praised Treaty of Washington but the arbitration of the Civil War claims , for which that treaty provided , at Geneva . When ...
... object of the Commission was always subsidiary to its real object , and its main achievement not the much - praised Treaty of Washington but the arbitration of the Civil War claims , for which that treaty provided , at Geneva . When ...
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... object was to consolidate her occupation of Manchuria by placating the Chinese Government.1 But Germany's immediate object was to use Great Britain's suspicion of Russia and her difficulties in South Africa to secure the neutralisa ...
... object was to consolidate her occupation of Manchuria by placating the Chinese Government.1 But Germany's immediate object was to use Great Britain's suspicion of Russia and her difficulties in South Africa to secure the neutralisa ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The AngloRussian agreement and its effects | 7 |
Britain as yet the only fully industrial state | 11 |
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