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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... Persia . But it was abandoned in 1580 , when a Turkish invasion threw Persia into confusion . The Muscovy Company was not only the first joint - stock corpora- tion chartered by an English Government , and so a means of gaining ...
... Persia . But it was abandoned in 1580 , when a Turkish invasion threw Persia into confusion . The Muscovy Company was not only the first joint - stock corpora- tion chartered by an English Government , and so a means of gaining ...
Page 57
... Persia was very precarious , was about the same time taking up the idea of a sea passage . In May 1565 he presented a memorial to the Crown urging a fresh promotion of the discovery , 2 and gave reasons derived from his own intercourse ...
... Persia was very precarious , was about the same time taking up the idea of a sea passage . In May 1565 he presented a memorial to the Crown urging a fresh promotion of the discovery , 2 and gave reasons derived from his own intercourse ...
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... Persia and the White Sea or Baltic had been blocked by the attacks of the Tartars , but there were high hopes of a profitable trade in the wines and currants of Turkey and of access to the markets of India through Damascus and Baghdad ...
... Persia and the White Sea or Baltic had been blocked by the attacks of the Tartars , but there were high hopes of a profitable trade in the wines and currants of Turkey and of access to the markets of India through Damascus and Baghdad ...
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