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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... Ports and the Slave Trade The Company of Merchants trading to Africa Defective Knowledge of the Interior The Government of Senegambia War with the French and Dutch Change in British Relations with Africa 437 439 441 443 447 449 451 453 ...
... Ports and the Slave Trade The Company of Merchants trading to Africa Defective Knowledge of the Interior The Government of Senegambia War with the French and Dutch Change in British Relations with Africa 437 439 441 443 447 449 451 453 ...
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... ports , and undoubtedly obtained there a stock of information about Africa , Brazil and the West Indies , where French intruders were busy throughout the reign . of Francis I. In spite of the wars with France , there is little evidence ...
... ports , and undoubtedly obtained there a stock of information about Africa , Brazil and the West Indies , where French intruders were busy throughout the reign . of Francis I. In spite of the wars with France , there is little evidence ...
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... ports by adventurers who went no farther than Finisterre in search of it . The French , on the other hand , made no break in their tropical expeditions . Francis I and Henry II connived at them , and at a later date Admiral Coligny ...
... ports by adventurers who went no farther than Finisterre in search of it . The French , on the other hand , made no break in their tropical expeditions . Francis I and Henry II connived at them , and at a later date Admiral Coligny ...
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... ports of France . So 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 ...
... ports of France . So 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 ...
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... Ports- mouth , where he built the second Great Harry and other ships in 1536 and the following years . He acted also as agent to Thomas Cromwell , who was himself an investor and shipowner in the Spanish and Levant traffic . Robert ...
... Ports- mouth , where he built the second Great Harry and other ships in 1536 and the following years . He acted also as agent to Thomas Cromwell , who was himself an investor and shipowner in the Spanish and Levant traffic . Robert ...
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