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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... islands of the Lesser Antilles and fixed upon the island of St Christopher among the Leeward Islands as best suited for his purpose . It had never been occupied by the Spaniards and was not easily approachable from the centres of their ...
... islands of the Lesser Antilles and fixed upon the island of St Christopher among the Leeward Islands as best suited for his purpose . It had never been occupied by the Spaniards and was not easily approachable from the centres of their ...
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... Leeward Islands or to the real Barbados , but when Courteen's settlers had shown the worth of the latter island , there was no hesitation on Carlisle's part in backing Warner's contention that they were trespassers without rights . The ...
... Leeward Islands or to the real Barbados , but when Courteen's settlers had shown the worth of the latter island , there was no hesitation on Carlisle's part in backing Warner's contention that they were trespassers without rights . The ...
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... Leeward Islands to consider the steps taken to establish the proprietary governments under the Earl of Carlisle's patent of 7 April 1628 procured in the circum- stances mentioned earlier.1 The new grant largely increased the lord ...
... Leeward Islands to consider the steps taken to establish the proprietary governments under the Earl of Carlisle's patent of 7 April 1628 procured in the circum- stances mentioned earlier.1 The new grant largely increased the lord ...
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... Leeward Islands , where Thomas Warner held the governorship for the lord proprietor . By 1629 there were about 3000 settlers in St Christopher and large cargoes of tobacco were sent home . The English occupied the middle of the island ...
... Leeward Islands , where Thomas Warner held the governorship for the lord proprietor . By 1629 there were about 3000 settlers in St Christopher and large cargoes of tobacco were sent home . The English occupied the middle of the island ...
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... Leeward Islands on a firm basis . The French had suffered much more than the English in the Spanish raid , and for some years their quarters in St Christopher were only sparsely occupied , but Warner apparently thought it advisable not ...
... Leeward Islands on a firm basis . The French had suffered much more than the English in the Spanish raid , and for some years their quarters in St Christopher were only sparsely occupied , but Warner apparently thought it advisable not ...
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