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 73
... tion as the most potent cure for social ills became once more insistent . A few scattered ventures during the war years show that the search for opportunities of peaceful oceanic trade was still being prosecuted by individual ...
... tion as the most potent cure for social ills became once more insistent . A few scattered ventures during the war years show that the search for opportunities of peaceful oceanic trade was still being prosecuted by individual ...
Page 81
... tion , and the control of the enterprise passed almost wholly into the hands of Sir Thomas Smythe and a few of his merchant associates.✩ They found the proprietary provisions of the 1606 charter ineffective , for there was no authority ...
... tion , and the control of the enterprise passed almost wholly into the hands of Sir Thomas Smythe and a few of his merchant associates.✩ They found the proprietary provisions of the 1606 charter ineffective , for there was no authority ...
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... tion to Virginia , 80 New York , city of , 599 ; congress of dele- gates in , condemns the Stamp Act , 656 ; capture of , by Howe , 722-3 ; 724 seqq .; Clinton at , 739 ; 748 ; Rodney at , 749 ; 751 seqq . New York , colony of , 247 ...
... tion to Virginia , 80 New York , city of , 599 ; congress of dele- gates in , condemns the Stamp Act , 656 ; capture of , by Howe , 722-3 ; 724 seqq .; Clinton at , 739 ; 748 ; Rodney at , 749 ; 751 seqq . New York , colony of , 247 ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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