The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1933 - Great Britain |
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... squatters " on land to which they had no legal claim . In America , a " squatter " was an illicit homesteader , a small farmer setting up his miserable establish- ment in some quarter - section wedged in between legally held lands ...
... squatters " on land to which they had no legal claim . In America , a " squatter " was an illicit homesteader , a small farmer setting up his miserable establish- ment in some quarter - section wedged in between legally held lands ...
Page 199
... squatters complained that they had no rights . They had given the colony its staple , almost in direct opposition to ... squatters were gypsy intruders . Willy - nilly , the facts had to be faced that New South Wales now meant the wool ...
... squatters complained that they had no rights . They had given the colony its staple , almost in direct opposition to ... squatters were gypsy intruders . Willy - nilly , the facts had to be faced that New South Wales now meant the wool ...
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... squatters down to the earth of hard fact : he discounted both the impracticably theoretical views of Downing Street and the rather lugubrious com- plaints of the squatters about the waste wilderness they were forced to live in and their ...
... squatters down to the earth of hard fact : he discounted both the impracticably theoretical views of Downing Street and the rather lugubrious com- plaints of the squatters about the waste wilderness they were forced to live in and their ...
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