The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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... Empire NDER THE terms of the Treaty of Utrecht the newly formed South Sea Company was granted permission to send one ship a year to trade on the Spanish Main . Since the Caribbean was still a notoriously lawless sea , largely inhabited ...
... Empire NDER THE terms of the Treaty of Utrecht the newly formed South Sea Company was granted permission to send one ship a year to trade on the Spanish Main . Since the Caribbean was still a notoriously lawless sea , largely inhabited ...
Side 128
... Empire , summed up his aims in the words ' We prefer trade to dominion ' . In his view settlements overseas merely meant a recurrence of the colonial revolt which had lost us the First Empire . Emigration was a drain on the country's ...
... Empire , summed up his aims in the words ' We prefer trade to dominion ' . In his view settlements overseas merely meant a recurrence of the colonial revolt which had lost us the First Empire . Emigration was a drain on the country's ...
Side 129
... empire in the east began with Cook's voy- ages before the First or Old Colonial system collapsed . But it is worth recalling that his departure from Plymouth on his last voyage was delayed by the victualling of the fleet which set out ...
... empire in the east began with Cook's voy- ages before the First or Old Colonial system collapsed . But it is worth recalling that his departure from Plymouth on his last voyage was delayed by the victualling of the fleet which set out ...
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