The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1

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John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell
The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries

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... settle there in the following year met with like disaster . The mishap to the reinforcements sent out by Sir Oliph Leigh led to the first attempt to found an English settlement in the Antilles . When the Olive Branch found it impossible ...
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... settlement and sent a Virginian , William Drum- mond , to be its first governor . These people settled down and became the nucleus of North Carolina . At about the same time , although the exact date is obscure , a party of New ...
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... settlement of the proprietary dispute at the Restoration , 241 ; conquered by the French ( 1665 ) , 241 , 508 ; restored at the peace , 242 , 314 ; separate governorship of Leeward Islands , 244 ; 286 ; annexation of French settlement ...

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CHAPTER I
1
CHAPTER II
22
The Newfoundland Fishery
29

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TitleThe Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1
The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose
EditorsJohn Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell
PublisherThe University Press, 1929
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized28 Nov 2006
  
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