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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... century . There was instead an age of exploration and knight errantry prior to and quite distinct from the age of ... eighteenth century , down to the time when the old thirteen colonies parted company with the motherland , for ...
... century . There was instead an age of exploration and knight errantry prior to and quite distinct from the age of ... eighteenth century , down to the time when the old thirteen colonies parted company with the motherland , for ...
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... century shaped and coloured the old Em- pire . By the encouragement which it had given to , or rather by the ... eighteenth century it came from France . Throughout a large part of the seventeenth century the main source of danger ...
... century shaped and coloured the old Em- pire . By the encouragement which it had given to , or rather by the ... eighteenth century it came from France . Throughout a large part of the seventeenth century the main source of danger ...
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... century made way for the eighteenth with the opening of the first great war that was almost as important in the colonial as in the European sphere . Marlborough's victories brought , under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht , great ...
... century made way for the eighteenth with the opening of the first great war that was almost as important in the colonial as in the European sphere . Marlborough's victories brought , under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht , great ...
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... 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 Years ' War , was for Great ...
... 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 Years ' War , was for Great ...
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... eighteenth century saw the reign of sugar ; the reign of cotton was yet to come . Though , as the century grew older , the riches which flowed from India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked ...
... eighteenth century saw the reign of sugar ; the reign of cotton was yet to come . Though , as the century grew older , the riches which flowed from India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked ...
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