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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... ocean men hailed from Bristol , the Devon towns and Southampton , but many belonged to London , which was common ground to both types of enterprise , a fact which had an influence upon the rapid commercial advance of the capital during ...
... ocean men hailed from Bristol , the Devon towns and Southampton , but many belonged to London , which was common ground to both types of enterprise , a fact which had an influence upon the rapid commercial advance of the capital during ...
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... ocean like those of the elder Pitt . Instead there occurred a series of little separate wars for limited objects , not taken seriously because all but the local men realised that the ultimate decisions depended upon the fate of battles ...
... ocean like those of the elder Pitt . Instead there occurred a series of little separate wars for limited objects , not taken seriously because all but the local men realised that the ultimate decisions depended upon the fate of battles ...
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... OCEAN ( AFTER 1550 ) BATTYE , J. S. Western Australia .... Oxford , 1924 . 851 The first two chapters go fully into the history of the early discovery . DE BROSSES , C. Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes . Paris , 1756 ...
... OCEAN ( AFTER 1550 ) BATTYE , J. S. Western Australia .... Oxford , 1924 . 851 The first two chapters go fully into the history of the early discovery . DE BROSSES , C. Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes . Paris , 1756 ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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