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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... Spain . Superiority of the English Navy The Rupture with Spain , 1585 English and Spanish Naval Strategy Efforts against the Spanish Flota Exhaustion of Spain Decline of Naval Efficiency Colonisation and Maritime Enterprise National ...
... Spain . Superiority of the English Navy The Rupture with Spain , 1585 English and Spanish Naval Strategy Efforts against the Spanish Flota Exhaustion of Spain Decline of Naval Efficiency Colonisation and Maritime Enterprise National ...
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... Spain , far behind France as a direct source of real danger , was in some respects in front of her as a perpetual source of irritation and collision . The Spanish oversea dominions were immense , still more immense were Spanish claims ...
... Spain , far behind France as a direct source of real danger , was in some respects in front of her as a perpetual source of irritation and collision . The Spanish oversea dominions were immense , still more immense were Spanish claims ...
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... Spain and Great Britain the eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger Britain was pitted against a weaker Spain . Against both Spain and France the mid - century foreign war , the Seven ...
... Spain and Great Britain the eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger Britain was pitted against a weaker Spain . Against both Spain and France the mid - century foreign war , the Seven ...
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... Spain ; and so valuable was the traffic that it survived all the troubles of the Reformation until the beginning of war in 1585. In the later years of Henry VIII there is clear evidence of English ships frequenting the Spanish Canaries ...
... Spain ; and so valuable was the traffic that it survived all the troubles of the Reformation until the beginning of war in 1585. In the later years of Henry VIII there is clear evidence of English ships frequenting the Spanish Canaries ...
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... Spain , having no Guinea stations of her own , leased this right to Portuguese capitalists , by whom the price was enhanced to the detri- ment of the Spanish planter . Some of the ships taken by Hawkins belonged to the owners of the ...
... Spain , having no Guinea stations of her own , leased this right to Portuguese capitalists , by whom the price was enhanced to the detri- ment of the Spanish planter . Some of the ships taken by Hawkins belonged to the owners of the ...
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