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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... Minorca and St Christopher The Relief of Gibraltar • · . • CHAPTER XXV THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND BRITISH POLITICS , 1776-1783 By CECIL HEADLAM , M.A. A Majority in Great Britain in favour of Coercion The American Revolution - A Civil ...
... Minorca and St Christopher The Relief of Gibraltar • · . • CHAPTER XXV THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND BRITISH POLITICS , 1776-1783 By CECIL HEADLAM , M.A. A Majority in Great Britain in favour of Coercion The American Revolution - A Civil ...
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... Minorca ; parliamentary union with Scotland , in- dispensable for the Empire , had been achieved ; and British progress in India had been assured by amalgamation of the two rival East India Companies . The outlook was fair when the ...
... Minorca ; parliamentary union with Scotland , in- dispensable for the Empire , had been achieved ; and British progress in India had been assured by amalgamation of the two rival East India Companies . The outlook was fair when the ...
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... Minorca , uninterrupted in the case of Gibraltar , intermittent in the case of Minorca . In the relations between Spain and Great Britain the eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger ...
... Minorca , uninterrupted in the case of Gibraltar , intermittent in the case of Minorca . In the relations between Spain and Great Britain the eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger ...
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... Minorca , and Havana or some equivalent . Louis argued that to share the Indies in any way with the Dutch and English would be to take the whole from Spain , that Port Mahon would make them masters of the Mediterranean , and that a ...
... Minorca , and Havana or some equivalent . Louis argued that to share the Indies in any way with the Dutch and English would be to take the whole from Spain , that Port Mahon would make them masters of the Mediterranean , and that a ...
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... Minorca to Great Britain . The Asiento concession was rounded off by the grant of a depôt for human livestock on the Rio de la Plata , and by certain limited rights of trade with Spanish America in other goods . These were to form the ...
... Minorca to Great Britain . The Asiento concession was rounded off by the grant of a depôt for human livestock on the Rio de la Plata , and by certain limited rights of trade with Spanish America in other goods . These were to form the ...
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