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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Page 373
... favour ; how the Prussians and Saxons left the divided and distracted French to save themselves and their Bavaria as best they could ; how the Spanish Bourbons were foiled in Italy and the Swedes in Finland - all this belongs to the ...
... favour ; how the Prussians and Saxons left the divided and distracted French to save themselves and their Bavaria as best they could ; how the Spanish Bourbons were foiled in Italy and the Swedes in Finland - all this belongs to the ...
Page 567
... favour . Private enterprise would have avoided such a trade had it not been able to secure adequate returns . The Navigation Acts by limiting competition offered such returns . Thus the colonists had little of which to complain . If the ...
... favour . Private enterprise would have avoided such a trade had it not been able to secure adequate returns . The Navigation Acts by limiting competition offered such returns . Thus the colonists had little of which to complain . If the ...
Page 761
... favour of coercion.1 Opinion had hardened , as the violence and ever - increasing demands of the Americans and their rejection of each effort at conciliation seemed to point to a determination to throw off their allegiance . The greater ...
... favour of coercion.1 Opinion had hardened , as the violence and ever - increasing demands of the Americans and their rejection of each effort at conciliation seemed to point to a determination to throw off their allegiance . The greater ...
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