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 252
... territory . There was yet another significance in the conquest of the Hudson waterway - its strategic value in a conflict with New France . But that was a frontiersman's interest , and there is no evi- dence that it occurred in 1664 to ...
... territory . There was yet another significance in the conquest of the Hudson waterway - its strategic value in a conflict with New France . But that was a frontiersman's interest , and there is no evi- dence that it occurred in 1664 to ...
Page 454
... territory if the claim to control the gum trade , which the English merchants had desired , was to be made effective . The great value of this trade in the eighteenth century was due to the importance of gum in the finishing processes ...
... territory if the claim to control the gum trade , which the English merchants had desired , was to be made effective . The great value of this trade in the eighteenth century was due to the importance of gum in the finishing processes ...
Page 540
... territory ; belonging to a person , when he has a fleet which commands that part of the sea ; belonging to a territory , in so far as those who sail in that part of the sea can be compelled from the shore as if they were on land " . But ...
... territory ; belonging to a person , when he has a fleet which commands that part of the sea ; belonging to a territory , in so far as those who sail in that part of the sea can be compelled from the shore as if they were on land " . But ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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