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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Italian cosmographers corresponded with Henry the Navigator , and Italian pilots bore their part in the early ... Above all , Italy was the creator of the portolano , the handy pilot's chart by means of which a man could really profit ...
Italian cosmographers corresponded with Henry the Navigator , and Italian pilots bore their part in the early ... Above all , Italy was the creator of the portolano , the handy pilot's chart by means of which a man could really profit ...
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That Italy should be delivered over to the Emperor seemed to Britain advan- tageous ; but to the Italian rulers of Spain , intolerable . Hence when , in May 1716 , peace - seeking Britain made her defensive alliance with the Emperor ...
That Italy should be delivered over to the Emperor seemed to Britain advan- tageous ; but to the Italian rulers of Spain , intolerable . Hence when , in May 1716 , peace - seeking Britain made her defensive alliance with the Emperor ...
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When the ministers met , jeered Paris , God's thunder was inaudible.3 In Spain , on the other hand , the death of Philip ( July 1746 ) trans- ferred control from his Italian Queen to the Portuguese Queen of his successor , Ferdinand VI ...
When the ministers met , jeered Paris , God's thunder was inaudible.3 In Spain , on the other hand , the death of Philip ( July 1746 ) trans- ferred control from his Italian Queen to the Portuguese Queen of his successor , Ferdinand VI ...
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