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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... later ventures . When Drake and Gilbert presented their plans it could not be fore- seen that one of them would meet with resounding success and the other with failure . Drake sailed away in November 1577 with a greater design than a ...
... later ventures . When Drake and Gilbert presented their plans it could not be fore- seen that one of them would meet with resounding success and the other with failure . Drake sailed away in November 1577 with a greater design than a ...
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... later . The interval between his return in 1597 and the foundation of the Virginia Company in 1606 covers a change of epoch , and it is in those years that we must seek the beginnings of the first permanent English colony . The true ...
... later . The interval between his return in 1597 and the foundation of the Virginia Company in 1606 covers a change of epoch , and it is in those years that we must seek the beginnings of the first permanent English colony . The true ...
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... later both the Pitts in turn , and stir the imagination of Canning . The manifestations changed in character during these two and a half centuries , but their inspiration remained the same . The change came in the time of Cromwell's ...
... later both the Pitts in turn , and stir the imagination of Canning . The manifestations changed in character during these two and a half centuries , but their inspiration remained the same . The change came in the time of Cromwell's ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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