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 67
... scheme , for he saw in it an opportunity to use some of the Queen's disaffected subjects in founding an outpost of English power at the gateway of the Spanish Indies . It was true that Walsingham did much to further the project , and ...
... scheme , for he saw in it an opportunity to use some of the Queen's disaffected subjects in founding an outpost of English power at the gateway of the Spanish Indies . It was true that Walsingham did much to further the project , and ...
Page 90
... scheme was first propounded in 1607 by certain western mer- chants who had been interested in Peckham's schemes , and at length in 1610 the new Company received a charter of incorporation as " The Treasurer and company of Adventurers ...
... scheme was first propounded in 1607 by certain western mer- chants who had been interested in Peckham's schemes , and at length in 1610 the new Company received a charter of incorporation as " The Treasurer and company of Adventurers ...
Page 694
... scheme which he had long con- templated . This was the formation of a great Northern Alliance , which should unite Russia , Prussia , Denmark , Sweden and the United Provinces in a defensive confederacy against the House of Bourbon ...
... scheme which he had long con- templated . This was the formation of a great Northern Alliance , which should unite Russia , Prussia , Denmark , Sweden and the United Provinces in a defensive confederacy against the House of Bourbon ...
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