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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... natural allies of France , and France claimed that to her they owed their inde- pendence . Recent years had shown the French , however , that grati- tude could not be counted on to save their influence in Constantinople and northern ...
... natural allies of France , and France claimed that to her they owed their inde- pendence . Recent years had shown the French , however , that grati- tude could not be counted on to save their influence in Constantinople and northern ...
Page 437
... natural reluctance to admit its great importance in the overseas Empire of the Stuarts and Hanoverians . No such separation of the interests of the colonies from those of trade existed in the days of the Board of Trade and Plantations ...
... natural reluctance to admit its great importance in the overseas Empire of the Stuarts and Hanoverians . No such separation of the interests of the colonies from those of trade existed in the days of the Board of Trade and Plantations ...
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... naturally sought aid from Germany , that body composed of some two hundred fragments but with a Habsburg emperor at its head . That this simple and natural arrangement , the very fulcrum of the balance of power , should give place to a ...
... naturally sought aid from Germany , that body composed of some two hundred fragments but with a Habsburg emperor at its head . That this simple and natural arrangement , the very fulcrum of the balance of power , should give place to a ...
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