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 153
... success . Scattered parties of settlers went out from time to time to various places on the New England coast and met with uniform failure , and the only real colony before 1629 was that at Plymouth . There has been a tendency among ...
... success . Scattered parties of settlers went out from time to time to various places on the New England coast and met with uniform failure , and the only real colony before 1629 was that at Plymouth . There has been a tendency among ...
Page 529
... success after success , and threatened to overrun the Carnatic . Lally's hopes of triumph were , however , dashed by the 1 Forrest , Sir G. W. , Life of Clive , 1 , 269–78 . 2 Ibid . vol . 1 , chaps . xvii - xix , vol . п , chap . i ...
... success after success , and threatened to overrun the Carnatic . Lally's hopes of triumph were , however , dashed by the 1 Forrest , Sir G. W. , Life of Clive , 1 , 269–78 . 2 Ibid . vol . 1 , chaps . xvii - xix , vol . п , chap . i ...
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... success . He had already written on 30 August1 that he must have more troops : in the previous year he had had enough because he had then no conquests to guard - a telling criticism of his own recent proceedings - but as things stood ...
... success . He had already written on 30 August1 that he must have more troops : in the previous year he had had enough because he had then no conquests to guard - a telling criticism of his own recent proceedings - but as things stood ...
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