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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Page 202
The general position as regards the claims made by Venice , Genoa and Denmark has already been noted . These claims were small and unimportant when compared with the extravagant pretensions of Spain and Portugal to the monopoly of trade ...
The general position as regards the claims made by Venice , Genoa and Denmark has already been noted . These claims were small and unimportant when compared with the extravagant pretensions of Spain and Portugal to the monopoly of trade ...
Page 544
The league of the Iroquois , or the Five Nations , was the key to this position , and so long as they were unsubdued the effective possession of the region north of the Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi could not be ...
The league of the Iroquois , or the Five Nations , was the key to this position , and so long as they were unsubdued the effective possession of the region north of the Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi could not be ...
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BURGOYNE IN DIFFICULTIES 731 the well - entrenched American position at Stillwater , ten miles south of Saratoga . Burgoyne had little over 5000 effectives while his opponent Gates , who had recently secured the command by intrigue ...
BURGOYNE IN DIFFICULTIES 731 the well - entrenched American position at Stillwater , ten miles south of Saratoga . Burgoyne had little over 5000 effectives while his opponent Gates , who had recently secured the command by intrigue ...
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2008 |
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