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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... ocean men hailed from Bristol , the Devon towns and Southampton , but many belonged to London , which was common ground to both types of enterprise , a fact which had an influence upon the rapid commercial advance of the capital during ...
... ocean men hailed from Bristol , the Devon towns and Southampton , but many belonged to London , which was common ground to both types of enterprise , a fact which had an influence upon the rapid commercial advance of the capital during ...
Page 53
... ocean and then to establish permanent colonies for trade and plantation . In the previous chapter we saw that Portuguese interests on the African coast were the first to suffer , but later the main object of effort became that trade ...
... ocean and then to establish permanent colonies for trade and plantation . In the previous chapter we saw that Portuguese interests on the African coast were the first to suffer , but later the main object of effort became that trade ...
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... ocean like those of the elder Pitt . Instead there occurred a series of little separate wars for limited objects , not taken seriously because all but the local men realised that the ultimate decisions depended upon the fate of battles ...
... ocean like those of the elder Pitt . Instead there occurred a series of little separate wars for limited objects , not taken seriously because all but the local men realised that the ultimate decisions depended upon the fate of battles ...
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