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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... remained subordinate to the Hansa which also competed keenly with them in the Netherlands . The western trades show a much more interesting record . There may not have been much growth in their volume , but the English share certainly ...
... remained subordinate to the Hansa which also competed keenly with them in the Netherlands . The western trades show a much more interesting record . There may not have been much growth in their volume , but the English share certainly ...
Page 173
... remained undisturbed in his governorship . To him is un- doubtedly due the chief credit for establishing the English possession of the Leeward Islands on a firm basis . The French had suffered much more than the English in the Spanish ...
... remained undisturbed in his governorship . To him is un- doubtedly due the chief credit for establishing the English possession of the Leeward Islands on a firm basis . The French had suffered much more than the English in the Spanish ...
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... remained under the jurisdiction of its chartered company , twice reorganised during the Interregnum . Newfoundland , under its royalist governor , Sir David Kirke , had been hostile to the Puritan party in the Civil War . In 1651 ...
... remained under the jurisdiction of its chartered company , twice reorganised during the Interregnum . Newfoundland , under its royalist governor , Sir David Kirke , had been hostile to the Puritan party in the Civil War . In 1651 ...
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