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Further south , the first railways had already been built , in Natal ( 1860 ) and at
the Cape ( 1863 ) . To the north , the first railway in Egypt was opened in 1854 ,
and more than goo miles of line had been built by the end of the reign of Khedive
...
Further south , the first railways had already been built , in Natal ( 1860 ) and at
the Cape ( 1863 ) . To the north , the first railway in Egypt was opened in 1854 ,
and more than goo miles of line had been built by the end of the reign of Khedive
...
Page 169
1 Salisbury ' s plan for a state - aided Mombasa - Nyanza railway was the first of
his expansionist schemes to run into opposition in the Commons . He supported
the project not only as a means of enabling the East Africa Company to hold ...
1 Salisbury ' s plan for a state - aided Mombasa - Nyanza railway was the first of
his expansionist schemes to run into opposition in the Commons . He supported
the project not only as a means of enabling the East Africa Company to hold ...
Page 277
Germany , after giving her consent , withdrew it in December 1892 when she
learned that British agents in Constantinople were opposing the award to a
German syndicate of a railway concession to Konia , on the second stage of the
Baghdad ...
Germany , after giving her consent , withdrew it in December 1892 when she
learned that British agents in Constantinople were opposing the award to a
German syndicate of a railway concession to Konia , on the second stage of the
Baghdad ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 11 |
CHAPTER II | 17 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 948 pages |
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