The Panama Canal: An Elucidation of Its Governmental Features as Prescribed by Treaties; a Discussion of Toll Exemption and the Repeal Bill of 1914; and Other Pertinent Chapters |
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... England , France and Holland . At the close of this century these nations were all strug- gling for conquest on this side of the Atlantic . Eng- land secured islands in the Caribbean Sea and on con- tinental America made settlements at ...
... England , France and Holland . At the close of this century these nations were all strug- gling for conquest on this side of the Atlantic . Eng- land secured islands in the Caribbean Sea and on con- tinental America made settlements at ...
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... England and the United States ; all others seem to have withdrawn from the field . Our nation having secured the whole Northwest territory by the Louisiana purchase in 1803 , began to take interest in the Pacific coast traffic , and in ...
... England and the United States ; all others seem to have withdrawn from the field . Our nation having secured the whole Northwest territory by the Louisiana purchase in 1803 , began to take interest in the Pacific coast traffic , and in ...
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... England , because she claimed interest in the Mosquito coast and this was in the line of the proposed canal . It became absolutely necessary for America to agree with England ; so John M. Clay- ton , then Secretary of State , signed ...
... England , because she claimed interest in the Mosquito coast and this was in the line of the proposed canal . It became absolutely necessary for America to agree with England ; so John M. Clay- ton , then Secretary of State , signed ...
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... England should at once abandon all rights that she then claimed in Nicaragua . This con- tention went on until our ... England would not furnish the capital ; and that England not being anxious to yield all colonial con- CLAYTON - BULWER ...
... England should at once abandon all rights that she then claimed in Nicaragua . This con- tention went on until our ... England would not furnish the capital ; and that England not being anxious to yield all colonial con- CLAYTON - BULWER ...
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... England not being anxious to yield all colonial con- trol in Central America , would as soon abandon the treaty . In the early days America was determined not to give up the treaty , but to hold England to the con- tract . We cared not ...
... England not being anxious to yield all colonial con- trol in Central America , would as soon abandon the treaty . In the early days America was determined not to give up the treaty , but to hold England to the con- tract . We cared not ...
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