The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier Incorporated, 1999 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries A thirty-volume encyclopedia covering important world events while providing major new treatments of selected topics in various academic fields. |
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Meanwhile the new nation created by the American Revolution was finding that its troubles had only begun when the British departed . It had lost its old footing in the British imperial commercial system , especially in the West Indies ...
Meanwhile the new nation created by the American Revolution was finding that its troubles had only begun when the British departed . It had lost its old footing in the British imperial commercial system , especially in the West Indies ...
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Empress Eugénie of France duly opened the Suez Canal in 1869 , thus bring- ing the Indian Empire , now part of the British Empire , much closer to Westminster and the English Channel . But The Colonial Empire .
Empress Eugénie of France duly opened the Suez Canal in 1869 , thus bring- ing the Indian Empire , now part of the British Empire , much closer to Westminster and the English Channel . But The Colonial Empire .
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be given wherever they would do more good than harm , Britain extended them to British Honduras , Malta , and the Ionian Isles . Even Grenada and St. Vincent were brought within measurable distance of responsible government by the ...
be given wherever they would do more good than harm , Britain extended them to British Honduras , Malta , and the Ionian Isles . Even Grenada and St. Vincent were brought within measurable distance of responsible government by the ...
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