The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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... France . Spain was already a moribund empire ; but France and England started level in the race . In North America the former held Canada and Acadie ( Nova Scotia ) , while British colonists were now firmly established along the ...
... France . Spain was already a moribund empire ; but France and England started level in the race . In North America the former held Canada and Acadie ( Nova Scotia ) , while British colonists were now firmly established along the ...
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... France was already putting out peace feelers . Pitt declared that this country could not desert an ally whose situation was now as desperate as Frederick's by negotiating a separate peace . He was convinced that sooner or later Spain ...
... France was already putting out peace feelers . Pitt declared that this country could not desert an ally whose situation was now as desperate as Frederick's by negotiating a separate peace . He was convinced that sooner or later Spain ...
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... France , or at least so far as to enable us to direct our principal forces against the East . ' In this brilliant and ruthless plan , which was checked at the battle of the Marne in September , 1914 , but which succeeded in essentials ...
... France , or at least so far as to enable us to direct our principal forces against the East . ' In this brilliant and ruthless plan , which was checked at the battle of the Marne in September , 1914 , but which succeeded in essentials ...
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