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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... Capture of Louisbourg Origins of the Seven Years ' War The Navy in the East Indies Choiseul's Plan of Invasion British Naval Successes in 1759-60 Increase of British Commerce Captain James Cook • Results of British Naval Supremacy PAGE ...
... Capture of Louisbourg Origins of the Seven Years ' War The Navy in the East Indies Choiseul's Plan of Invasion British Naval Successes in 1759-60 Increase of British Commerce Captain James Cook • Results of British Naval Supremacy PAGE ...
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... Capture and Defence of Savannah The Allied Fleet in the Channel The Campaign in the Southern Colonies Rodney's Action against de Guichen Cornwallis's Operations in the South Cornwallis's Move to Virginia The Chesapeake and Yorktown ...
... Capture and Defence of Savannah The Allied Fleet in the Channel The Campaign in the Southern Colonies Rodney's Action against de Guichen Cornwallis's Operations in the South Cornwallis's Move to Virginia The Chesapeake and Yorktown ...
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... capture of Englishmen , de- structive reprisals by their friends , and an extension of hostilities to the Atlantic islands and the seas of Europe . In 1565-6 , for instance , the Wynters sent out a ship which was surprised and sunk by a ...
... capture of Englishmen , de- structive reprisals by their friends , and an extension of hostilities to the Atlantic islands and the seas of Europe . In 1565-6 , for instance , the Wynters sent out a ship which was surprised and sunk by a ...
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... capture in 1566 ; as he was put forward by the promoters for the command , the idea probably 1 St. Pap . Dom . , Eliz . CXLIV , no . 144 , printed in New Light on Drake , p . 430 . 2 Read , C. , Walsingham , ш , 399–401 . 3 Corbett , op ...
... capture in 1566 ; as he was put forward by the promoters for the command , the idea probably 1 St. Pap . Dom . , Eliz . CXLIV , no . 144 , printed in New Light on Drake , p . 430 . 2 Read , C. , Walsingham , ш , 399–401 . 3 Corbett , op ...
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... capture of the Spanish treasure city , Nombre de Dios . He failed only because a wound laid him low at the crisis of the fight . It is a sign of the affection which he inspired that his men bore him to the boats , preferring to save him ...
... capture of the Spanish treasure city , Nombre de Dios . He failed only because a wound laid him low at the crisis of the fight . It is a sign of the affection which he inspired that his men bore him to the boats , preferring to save him ...
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