The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Minorca , uninterrupted in the case of Gibraltar , intermittent in the case of Minorca . In the relations between Spain and Great Britain the eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger ...
... Minorca , uninterrupted in the case of Gibraltar , intermittent in the case of Minorca . In the relations between Spain and Great Britain the eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger ...
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... Minorca and to be hopeful of winning Spanish help against Gibraltar . In May , when at last open war was declared against France , and ominous convulsions were reported in Sweden , it became apparent that the greatest diplomatic ...
... Minorca and to be hopeful of winning Spanish help against Gibraltar . In May , when at last open war was declared against France , and ominous convulsions were reported in Sweden , it became apparent that the greatest diplomatic ...
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... Minorca , setting free Toulon , and a gale which scattered our block- ading force off Brest had enabled French ... Minorca and with it the Mediterranean lost , and America itself precarious . " To win over Spain and thus regain Minorca ...
... Minorca , setting free Toulon , and a gale which scattered our block- ading force off Brest had enabled French ... Minorca and with it the Mediterranean lost , and America itself precarious . " To win over Spain and thus regain Minorca ...
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