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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... important has India been as a school for administrators . Perpetually widening areas , with endless diversities of race , custom and creed , were brought under British control ; the trading Company which ruled India was gradually ...
... important has India been as a school for administrators . Perpetually widening areas , with endless diversities of race , custom and creed , were brought under British control ; the trading Company which ruled India was gradually ...
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... important respect . An unsurpassed opportunity for calling out and developing the best British qualities would have been wanting . It may be said again that , without the Empire , British engineers , the makers of railways , telegraphs ...
... important respect . An unsurpassed opportunity for calling out and developing the best British qualities would have been wanting . It may be said again that , without the Empire , British engineers , the makers of railways , telegraphs ...
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... important , because there is no contemporary record of what actually happened on this voyage , and the rest of John Cabot's story is a matter of inference . All that is established is that he sailed and had not returned as late as ...
... important , because there is no contemporary record of what actually happened on this voyage , and the rest of John Cabot's story is a matter of inference . All that is established is that he sailed and had not returned as late as ...
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... important period of French expansion see , in general , Charles de la Roncière , Hist . de la marine française , III . 2 Letters and Papers , XIV , pt 1 , nos . 466 , 487 ; xv , nos . 38 , 281 . THE WESTERN ADVENTURERS 35 had saved the ...
... important period of French expansion see , in general , Charles de la Roncière , Hist . de la marine française , III . 2 Letters and Papers , XIV , pt 1 , nos . 466 , 487 ; xv , nos . 38 , 281 . THE WESTERN ADVENTURERS 35 had saved the ...
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... important was the western element in the subsequent generation that it is relevant to consider individually some of the men who were its pioneers . In London the Gonson family were prominent . William Gonson under Henry VIII traded with ...
... important was the western element in the subsequent generation that it is relevant to consider individually some of the men who were its pioneers . In London the Gonson family were prominent . William Gonson under Henry VIII traded with ...
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