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The lo t is fallen u n to m e in a fa ir grou n d :
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h av e a go odly h e r i tage .
Psal m x vi . 6 .
D ay is as n ight an dight is
n as day, un til we h ea r
th at the E gli h
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are o . G od kn o ws th e r i gh t .
I NT R OD U CT O R Y
C HAP TER I
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TH E S E V E NT EE NT H C E NT U R Y
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TH E A G E OF Q U EE N V I CT O R I A
C HAP TER V
TH E E MP I R E AT TH E P R E S E NT D A Y
C H A P T E R VI
TH E M E A N I N G AN D USE OF T HE E MP I R E
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use to them and that they had no use for the Empire It
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o f the past did not sin against the li ght to the same extent
as if the deeds had been done here and now The converse .
the reign o f King Henry the Eighth which laid down that
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passed against paying dues to the Papal See ; and the meaning
of the words Empire and Imperial as explained by the great
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any emperor is in his empire Empire denoted the
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taken final shape at home not until they have really become
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and the instinct which have completed the home work seek
for a further outlet which in modern times has as a rule
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the many and great diversities which now exist in the British
Empire will if wisely handled be ultimately a source not o f
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as far as the line o f the Forth and the Clyde The Roma ns .
held the island for rather less than four centuries and they ,
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was short lived but the historian Gibbon s comment is
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Britain and its inhabitants but in these far off days and for ,
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se a for Britain meant the wate rs round the British Isles and ,
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notably the Channel the Narrow Sea .
he ha d re die ship s m a de b e fo r e ,
G r e a t an d hu ge n o t fe w b u t m an y a s t o r e
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trade w ith the far North and when a Danish King Canute ,
memorable for the fact that for the first time an English
fleet appeared in the Mediterranean in connection with the
Crusades The English thus gained some fi rst hand know
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pass before any English ships traded into that sea the carry ,
Cyp ru s
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Templars Nearly seven centuries later in 18 7 8 Cyprus
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were in the reign of Edward III This King sto o d fast for the
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ing to mind ran his instructions to his admirals
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that ,
F o ur thin gs o u r n o bl e S h o we th to me,
Kin g , s h ip an d sw o r d an d p o w e r
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of the se a .
As y o ur tw e yn e e yn e so ke e pe the n a rr o w se a .
Henry VIII who was also a builder of big ships had few
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men took the Scottish ship an d in the old ballad the English
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A b r a v e r shi pp w as n e v e r n o n e ,
N o w e h a th y o ur G r ac e tw o sh ipp s o f Wa rre ,
B efo r e in E n gl an d w as b u t o n e .
service o f fifty and seven ships at their cost for fifteen days ,
the King and his subj ects living near the coast contrac ted
fo r the keeping of England and English liberties gr e w up
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F o r w he n th e y h a v e t ake the se a
A t B rysto w , or W he r e th a t hi t be e .
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took into his o w n hands whence the name Kingston o u -
building centre and the great port o f call for the Venetian
galleys which brought to Engl and and to Flanders the riches
o f the Le vant ; Dartmouth Plymouth and many others were, ,
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city says an o ld writer o f the reign o f Henry II
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mer .
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Middle Ages they tended more and more to have their head
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privileges in their London home the Steelyard the Gild ,
stands .
Bri st ol Bristol too was great at all times Even before the
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E ght g o o Sh ip dl y
B ri t l re dy m d s so s o a a e,
n e o n en ,
Wi th S p i h w in e w hi ch th y f b ll t l d
an s s e or a as a e,
I n h pp y p e d o f hi b r a v v o yag m
a s e ts e e e an ,
H 0 pi g his c o n q u e t
n h o u ld n l ar ge th i r tr de
s s s e e a .
B os t on .
On e o f the English ports which was very pro mi nent in
the Middle Ages and does not now hold the same relative
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port of Lincoln and o f Stamford and St Botolph s ,
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wool w o olfe ls leathe r lead and tin
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Of them wool was
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settled there and there was turned out her kirte ll Bristowe
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red. A Bristol hi storian wrongly derived our word
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blanket whose etymology is bla nc
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white fr om Thomas , ,
shippe d at Boston .
date from the reign o f Henry III but the system with .
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staple ,
the central market was it is said placed at
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when they have opened the field and sown the seed see ,
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made cloth His predecessor Richard II passed the first
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but only in ships of the King s alle giance a similar but
only temporary Act was passed in the reign o f Edward IV .
era of war with France and of civil war between Y ork and
Lancaster both wars equally disastrous finally ended when
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o f the navy ordained that wines and woads from the parts
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sick .An extra duty which inj ured the English wine trade ,
the west coast of Africa and in 1 487 two years after Henry
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and Atlantic the Portuguese and the Spaniards led the
way in overseas enterp rise among the peoples o f Western
Europe In 1 4 9 8 the Portugu ese reached India round the
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unknown lands under the King s banner and in a little ,
from the Italian city ports which had led in maritime enter
prise through the Middle Ages and were n o w coming to ,
a fifth of the profits but he did not for himself o r for the
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side the Northern regions the English and others co uld only
prosecute overseas enterprise if they were prepared to fight
for it and accordingly at the outset force necessarily entered
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the declaration was made This realm o f England is an ,
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Empire The full rich fr u its o f the Reformation were to
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both Hawkins and Drake took part she fell into Spanish ,
lost in the West Indies was the last great ship which was
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either builded or bought beyond the seas She was an .
towards a Royal Navy that had yet been taken was made
by the establishment of a Navy Board the beginning of the ,
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Strond which we now know as Trinity House in its home
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in those years cast in the entire piece and bored The same
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a royal charter had not yet been given was the beginning ,
with foreign lands near home and well known The later .
As the fact that the Turks had blocked the direct route to
the East led to the Portuguese finding their way round the
Cape and to Columbus discovering what he thought was
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under papal award all the central lands and seas of the
world set other nations the young and coming peoples to
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were tw o alternatives of north east or north west and -
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wholly di fferent obj ect and Ope ned up trade be tween Eng
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The Company wrote their Secretary in 1 601
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hath no ,
for the whole co mpany but every man trade th apart and , ,
greater meas ur e were the Spani ards the foes of the Nether
landers desperately fighting for their independence and their
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at the present time war with Germany has meant war with
her not merely on the battlefields close at home but in the ,
beth s time to fight and to fill their pockets They did not
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brought back from his voyage round the world she lent
Martin Frobisher a ship and subscribed to his Arctic
ventures .
It has been said that Danes and Nort hmen above all
others brought the seafaring strain into En gland but ,
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pally came We read in Fuller s Worthies that the natives
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have noted His son was the great Sir John Hawkins
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thief of the unknown world .
level from all that had gone before Hawkins Stow tells .
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year they improved their ships and guns and men and year ,
The s ta r s ab o v e w o u ld mak e th ee k n o wn
I f m e n he re sil e n t w e r e .
into the Arctic regions hunting for the North West Passage
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India merchants .
The obj ect was the discovery o f the North West Passage ; -
the Grocers Guild For years the English had been coming
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venture but in the next year and the next English ships
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went ou t again bringing back gold dust ivory and the Spice
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the world and after the battle of the Armada had broken
the sea power o f Spain— and Portugal was now un der
Spanish do mi nation— the English began to take their way
to the Indies round the Cape The first voyage fitted o u t .
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grew into the great tree o f the British East Indian Empire .
white banks a nd cli ffs which lie towards the se a and the ,
other because it might have some aflin ity with our country
in name which so m etime was so called
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At his departur e .
Maj esty s name the day and year o f o u r arrival there with
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dispose o f many things as absolute governor there how ,
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in Virgini a were designated ; but again the scheme mis
carried and in two years time the place w as desolate Not
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from those men which were the p ayn e fu ll and person all
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travellers In 15 82 he published Divers Voyages tou ching
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Armada appe a red the first edition o r germ o f his great work
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E iz l b th gr e t e m p r e s o f the w o r ld
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B ri tan n i a s A tl S ta r o f E n glan d s gl o b e
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geo graphy
H a v e fe tc h e d a b ou t the I n di an c on tin en t
E v e n fr o m P e r se p o li s to Me x i c o
An d the n c e u n t o the S tr ai t s o f Ju balte r .
All kn ow hi s lines
S ee w ha t a w o r ld o f gr o u n d
Li es w e stwa r d fr o m the mi ds t o f Can ce r s lin e
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in the line
We m e an to tr av e l to the An t ar c t ic p o le .
words
An d her e n o t far fr o m Al e x an d ri a
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B e i n g di st an t l e ss than f u ll a hu n d re d l e agu e s ,
I m e an t to c u t a c h an n e l to the m b o th
Th a t m e n might q u i c kl y sail to I n di a .
Where was now the horizon which had been bounded by the
Narrow Sea and what had become of the days but lately
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Oth e r m en , l de r r e p ta t i on
o f s en u ,
And all the poet s love goes out for England hedged in
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with the main England in a great pool a swan s nest
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England bound in with the triumphant sea .
The spirit o f the time went o n after the time was over .
A s w h e n , fa r de s ri e d
o ff a t se a , a fl ee t c
H a gs o the l o u d b y e q u in o c t i al w i n d
n n c s, s
Cl o e sa ilin g fr o m Be gal o r th i l
s n a, e s es
Of T m a to a d Tid o re w h c e m e r h an t s b rin g
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Th i r pi c y d ru g s
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because they iden tifi e d and rightly such enterprise with
freedom and national life because the y were human and ,
TH E S E V E NT EE NT H C E NT U R Y
Trade an d S ettlemen t
and after the glamour was over there came a prosaic time
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peoples lands " There have been some very few lan ds
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The war was in 18 99— 1 902 The first Dutchmen went into .
time of the War men like Kruger had not even been born
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o f colonisation .
century .
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depots o n the coast but the last thing they wanted even
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if the climate wo uld have allowed it was a settled and
civilised West Africa They wanted to keep West Africa
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with France which did not finally end till the Battle of
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Waterloo .
c ompanies .
These were the P ilgrim Fathers and the ship was the ,
Puritanism .
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I s Queen was founded in 163 4 by a Roman Catho lic Lord
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the territor y which from that date bore the name of Penn
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D u tc hm e n s territory The treaty of Breda in 1 66 7 c o n
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regaini ng for the moment their lost colony but the peace o f ,
Q ue b e c .
founded the first French settlement at Quebec A Scotch .
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syndicate o f London merchants Adventurers to Canada , ,
in 1 63 2 .
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B er m uda .
In 1 609 the Virginia Company received a new charter ,
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Of the B e rm u d o s the ple s c h
e x am u
K p t a s u pp o d b y H e ll s in fe rn a l d o g
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Ou r fl e e t fo u n d th e r m o s t h o e s t c o ur t e o u h o gs
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found his way o n to Virginia but the result o f his soj ourn
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Somer Islands .
and which for some two centuries played a part in the British
Empire o u t of all proportion to their size and ou t o f all
proportion to their presen t importance We have to bear .
largest being rather larger than twice the size o f the county
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place among them They are not far from the shores o f.
the n eighbouring continent and yet for the most part are ,
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kin s s western voyage in 1 5 6 6 5 it is written We came
to an island of the cannibals called Dominica The , .
cannibals o f that island and also others adj acent are the
most desperate warriors that are in the In dies by the ,
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Spaniards report who are never able to conquer them
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Here were havens and watering places for the ships that -
St . K itt s
. side in the little isl and o f St Kitts arriving it is said o n .
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The industry called for cheap and plentifu l labour and this ,
They trafficked for gold and other produce not for slaves ,
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the Dutch their foe s and trading rivals o us ted them from
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the Guinea coast and for some long time the Netherlanders
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this date onwards they may be said to h ave headed the list
of slave trading nations until the iniquity was finally
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Negro slavery in the West Indies and what are now S l very a .
slavery but from all times the world had been accustomed
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true that if the English had never gone over the seas they
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nothing at all with slave trading since the days when Bristol
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bearing in mind as it is fair to bear in min d that while ,
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Francis Bacon in his Essay Of Plantations wrote that
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only acted as other people acted and a far better case might
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the date o f the treaty down to the present ,
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less di flicu ltie s at home and abroad they made through the ,
St H l
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Far away from India they made a very different acqui si
tion the island of St Helena The record o f this little
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For it lies in the track of the trade winds blowing from the
south east and the sailors when leaving the Cape on their
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Indies three years grace being allowed to the Old Company
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p osside n tes The Old Company fought hard for their exist
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peoples had gone and were going because they found trade ,
ships the artifi cers w ho b u ilt them were all for good o r
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for bad obe ying a national ins tinct and serving a national
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destiny .
than ever the domin ating centre Of England the heart and ,
have seen gave its name to a company and to the first settle
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busy th the Newfoun dland fi s e ries Bristol Bideford , ,
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e oo . Y armouth took a part in this fishing trade Liverpool was .
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in the year 1 64 6 it was styled the prime haven in all
Lancashire it had a large and increasing Irish trade ; and
in a celebrated Act of Parliament o f 1663 an Act for ,
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the encouragement o f trade it finds a place in connexion ,
with the trade o f the Isle of Man The Cinque Ports with .
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o ff Beachy Head .
Th e N vy
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But the keeping of the seas narrow and wide had become , ,
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as never before the nation s care and the fighting ships were ,
ports sent shi ps at the King s call in the Old time fashion ’
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increasing o f shi pping and navigation carried the policy ,
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tended by the Act o f 1 663 for the encouragement o f
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and even when some more permanent agency for the purpose
was in 1 6 9 6 established by King William III trade was .
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still the governing factor and the agency was the Board o f
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in this century and largely for that very reason the time
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for the first time a colony was added to the Empire which
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ithin the British Isles civil wars were over and done
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for her Kings and brought over George I from Hanover
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not a root and branch reversal of the Old order There was .
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the younger were n o t merely the King s agents they were , ,
land and Ireland was effected and the British Isles became , ,
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years standing from being reduced to vassalage to Ger
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E ngland .
Frederick the Great o f Pru ssia and then grew up the b ond ,
part .
where the English are now holding their trenches being one ,
and the same the war scarred well tilled fields of Belgium
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evident that war with another nation implies war with that
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nation all the world over but o n the other hand in order , ,
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frontier in 1 7 5 5 General Braddock s force was annihilated
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All this was prelimi nary to the Seven Years War Similarly ’
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has possessions all the world over when peace comes after
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and stri kes a balance between gain and loss Until the .
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The first addition to the British Empire in the eighteenth Gibr ltar a .
conquere d and di ed , .
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John s ; and in the winter of 1 69 6 9 7 guided by a noted ,
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o f the war the French broke into St John s and there was .
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Straits o f Hudson .
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and the New E nglanders especially the ,
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century the English colo ni sts o n the North Atlan tic sea board -
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for the King o f France all its lower basin under the name
o f Lo u isiana Settlement at the mouth o f the river began
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g a hel a rivers comb ine to make the Ohio and here it was ,
Evangelin e
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which gave him the victory and cost hi m his life On the .
island of Cape Breton and all the other islands and coasts
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in the gulf and river o f St Lawrence In Louisiana the
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peace Florida and all the Spani sh poss essions o n the North
American continent to the east and south east o f the -
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n es . For there had been plentifu l fighting in the West In di es ,
loupe and the sister islands and that o f the smaller islands ,
lost heavily by the war For the tim e they were practically
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o f the English in America it was almost as fruitful in India
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D u ple ix s great scheme was broken up he himself was ,
from home .
capitu lated and though the French under the terms of the
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France to fight for it and from the British West Indies the
revolting colonies gained Alexander Hamilton Person .
believe that his heart would not have been in a fight against
thos e who h a d been side b y side with him wh en the issue
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change the old order his health gave way and the change ,
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the greatest attempt perhaps in all history at a world wide -
stalled The Treaty of Ami ens in 1802 called a halt for less
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Wellington made his way and England s way in the Pen
insula Eventually Russia threw in her lot wholehearte dly
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in under one Of Napoleon s own marshals Bernadotte
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once more took heart o f courage and the end of it was the ,
Waterloo .
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ended with the conquest Of Can ada two men served whose ,
When the Seven Y ears War was over these two men among
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as it was then called having with him the botanist Sir Joseph
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for this export o f human goods had been the North American
colonies especially the Southern States Here the door was
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P e na n g .
island o f Penang calling it Prince o f Wales Island because
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kong we hold not only the island but also the promontory
of Kowloon The annuity to the Sultan of Kedah which
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which cover the whole south of the Malay Penin sula The .
the wealth o f the East Indian nabobs had not only been ,
Tory Dr Johnson hated slavery and the slave trade with all
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statesmen and the year 1807 saw the slave trade abolished
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by Act of Parliament .
Office did not exist before the beginning of the nine teenth
century The Board of Trade and Plantations lasted till
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Burke s Act of 1 7 82 and it was n o t until 1801 that a
Secretary of State for the Colonies in the modern sense
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colonial administration .
of iron and coal began the north and north west o f England -
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short long before the fighting age was over the signs of
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the United States There have been only two great foreign
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the present war in which for the first time in history the
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was bombarded in 18 82 at the ti me o f Arabi Pasha s revolt .
of the Empire a very quiet time but none the less it was
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and South America met with warm sympathy in the Uni ted
States The English Foreign Secretary George Canning
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ana a . An outcome of the War of American Independence was
the peopling of Ontario and New Brunswick by Loyalist
refugees from the revolting colonies The United Empire .
school if any one man was the founder was Gibbon Wake
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18 6 7 it w as provided that
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the provinces o f Canada ,
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Scotia and New Brunswick The construction o f a trans
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the rest o f Canada separated from the land o f the
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Company who made his way up the Peace River and over
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and a new settlement o n St Mary s Island at the mouth o f
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this date There had been Ashanti wars o n the Gold Coast
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were not always wise There was the incident of S lac hter s
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imp ulsive than wise that a grave wrong had been done
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men s cup of bitterness against the British G overnment ; and ,
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little republics the nuclei of the Orange Free State and the
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was called after Sir Benj amin D Urban the English Governor ’
dependent in the lands which they had won from Zulu and
Matabele but their dealings with natives were not to the
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for law and order in a great wild land yet loth to leave the ,
over the territory between the Orange River and the Vaal
the Boers took up arms ; and there was a sharp fight at
B o o m platz before the Orange River Sovereignty as it
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Frere and the Z ulu King w as at the same time called upon
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annihilated at I san dhlw an a when the Zulus were beaten ,
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December 1880 In the Transvaal they intercepted and
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the South African Republic under a disputed suzerainty
o f the Queen but with undisputed hold by the British
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the war with the wilderness It has been told that
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England as being spit o u t of the mouth of it
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Tasmania which had been known as Van D ie m en s Land in
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held its hand until the hand was forced from within and
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a New Zealand Land Company in 1 83 8 3 9 and in 1 83 9 the ,
land and the coloured race who owned the soil proud and
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in Fij i In 1 85 8—
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with its native owner and ten years later was placed under
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In India the small possessions which still remained to
the Dutch s u ch as Chinsurah had been transferred to the
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and British credit it was the fir st and not the last bitter
experience o f ventures into Afghanistan Following upon .
Napier won the battle o f Miani and Sind with its port o f , ,
there were wars with the hard fi ghtin g Sikhs o f the Punj ab -
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Multan and the final victory o f Guj erat The Sikh dynasty
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which will live fo r all time but it was for the Government
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English had found their way back into the islands to Borneo , .
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was open warfare and when war was ended by the Treaty
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been suggested these Chinese wars are not among the most
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Cy pru s
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In 18 7 8 by an Anglo Turkish Convention E ngland gained
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to the upper course o f the Niger Park held the Niger and .
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either river Clappe rto n carried on Park s work and
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All was now changed Men began to turn their eyes inland
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called inland from east and west For the first time in .
new forward movement began which has not yet spent its ,
force .
E gypt .
In the firstlplace from 1882 must be dated the beginning
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youn g and the old are linked together from the young co m e ,
—
reacted on o n e another it wo uld be hard to say which w as
—
cause and which was e fl ec t an dZ all the time the work o f
i ys
R a lwa . railway making and telegrap h laying w as becoming more
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Iv THE AGE OF QUEEN VICT ORIA 15 1
acqu isitions made in the last thi rty o r thi rty fi ve years can -
A m ric e a
territory to be chr onicled since 1880 ; o n the other hand d an
11 13 118
spaces o f j oining province to province o f adj usting inter
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15 2 THE BRITIS H EMPIRE on .
who had again led the rebels was taken an d hanged With ,
.
—
line with the United States the latest arbitration having
been that o n t he Alaska boundary question in 1 903 — have
constituted the history of the Dominion o f Canada Anglo .
The New Hebrides were placed under the j oint control— the
—
condo minium o f Great Britain and France New Zealand .
, , , .
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small armed force o f the Company s men to precipitate a
, ,
and arming for war In October 1899 the war began the
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State .
A fric a
all that and more than is English n o w In 18 7 7 the Sultan .
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has been sing ularly free fo r England from wars with other
European nations There has been no war with o u r o ld
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circle grew wider and w ider What was the good o f it all 7
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TH E E MPI R E A T TH E P R E S E NT DAY
A n E mp ire o
f Diversities
nearly one fourth of the total land area of the globe Big
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of it a considerable achievement .
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without great c harges The continental possessions of
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1 60
1 62 THE BRITISH EMPIRE CH .
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came later in the day and the process is continuing year by,
, ,
peninsula .
Y et Bermuda .
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are for the most part in the temperate zones the Crown ,
so much as trade and rule are the tropical regi ons This is .
ally with wool South Africa with gold The West Coast
,
.
o f Africa sends among other products palm oil for soap and
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, ,
world Assam and Ceylon send tea T rini dad and Grenada
send cocoa rubber and cotton come in increasing quanti
ties from many tropical possessions The lists w hi ch have .
,
and contrast them with the white as though they were one ,
,
—
however in di fferent ways b y settlement by conquest ,
there are the Malay States where the sultans r ule through ,
When the English first went over the seas they went ,
to settle held that they took with them the rights and the
liberties which they had enj oyed in England As the Greek .
sho uld not be subj ected to the will and command o f those
”
that stay at home Self government in o n e form o r
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at the time of the South A frican War and nine years later ,
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union o f South Africa in some form o f confederation .
their nationhood .
and at the present day State Governors are still sent out from
England in addition to the Governor G eneral o f the Co m
,
-
the constitution is thus emphas ised and for the Senate each
State po lls as a single co n stituency o n the principle to use , ,
a French term of scru tin de liste with the e ffect that the
, ,
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-
or rather for providing that the whole shall reap the full
advantage o f the diversity o f the parts For the Dominions .
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term which in Lord Durham s time was a term o f abuse in ,
that the native subj ects o f the King look to the Government
in England for good not for evil ; that the coloured man
,
Singhalese one the Kan dyan s two the Tamils and on e the
, , ,
c lam atio n s .
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India In other words the expression India for legal
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and the Gove rnors o f Bombay and Madras like the Viceroy ,
ated by him to hold office for a term of years and the large ,
v THE EMPIRE AT THE PRESENT DAY 183
India was neve r all o n e even when the Mogul Empire was
at its full strength and such unit y as it possess es is derived
,
Britain has sent its sur plus pop ulation to the self —
governing
Do mi nions so India from her tee ming millions has
,
Th e I di
n an Of all bodies of public o fficials outside the mother
S r vic
e e .
countries the Indian Civil Service is by far the greatest .
are some non regulation districts and by their side are non
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in the past at any rate the man has counted fo r more and
,
the system for less than in the older provinces and districts ,
minister West and East Africa o r the Pacific colo n ies and
Protectorates are sent ou t from England selected by the ,
and that their fields are steadily watered and produce full
crops year after year then they realise day by day that
,
but they have been to the front in it and having the wi dest , ,
fruitful results .
The Germans .
and Dutch and Danes built a fort upon the Coast Fort
, ,
but after forty years had passed the forts were sold to the
, ,
beyond the seas u ntil after 18 80 That this has been the .
case that the Germans have sought a place in the sun late
,
till the last few months ; she never until the present war ,
they have been learni ng their lesson among all sorts and
conditions of men in all sorts and condi tions of lands and
,
were not English o fli cers at once well paid and the heirs ,
”
those o f His Maj esty s o w n subj ects whatever their creed
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,
because the English have long been called upon to guide the
destinies o f mi llions o f Mohammedans and have realised ,
—
looked to the absorption of French Canadian nationality
as an inevitable and desirable obj ect to be aimed at and
worked fo r but as self government in Canada was actually
,
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—
conceded and elaborated French Canadian nationality has
,
languages like the two races who use the two languages
, ,
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pro duc ed by a killing o u t process ; toleration o f diversity
means the preservation and the betterment o f the di fferent
kinds o f human life and human activity which have given ,
“
modern conditions hold an empire in permanence Q Un i
formity can only be attained by force But if attained will
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, ,
and growth are crushed out with them On the other hand .
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which brought this Empire o f ours into existence 4 What
was there at work other than ordinary commonplace greed ,
represent Englishmen
, What substantial evidence again , ,
2 00
2 02 THE BRITISH EMPIRE on .
the seas and a new sea route to the East Other nations
, . .
the products o f the new land and exchanging wares with its
inhabitants if there are inhabitants ; this is trade R e
,
.
The English went over the seas like other Europeans either
, ,
took them across the seas The first answer is the spirit
o f enterprise and especially o f se a going enterprise which
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the se a w hich gird e d their island to use the mariner s ,
over the seas o r most o f them had to the full the acquisitive
, ,
But even at this early stage the total motive force was
very much more than love of adventure and greed o f gain .
What was the result In going over the seas the English
‘
could not satisfy their love o f adventure and desire o f gain
without coming into conflict with Spain ; and at the same ,
time they could not feel sure o f their own political and
,
gratify o n the one hand the spirit of adventure and the love
, ,
and liberty and this force has been at work in full potency
,
the fact that the first band o f white colonists came with the
intent that every man mi ght enj oy his own opinion o r
”
religion without control o r question .
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fi rst fruits in hope the harvest will ripen afterwards
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, and ,
did not make itself felt to any great extent at any rate in ,
, .
whole enmity to slavery and the slave trade and it was the ,
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and organisation as opposed to the trader s factory with the
,
nest of slave trading was the plain bon a fi de reason why the
British Government took Lagos now the great port o f ,
Nigeria .
2 10 THE BRITISH EMPIRE CH .
this was the case with the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
o r they may go to an already established colony and
”
in England and without any ill thoughts towards the King
,
.
Empire .
o f Spain left the field to the nations which had been the
could she have kept her o w n hearth and home secure "
Could she have ensured the liberties o f future generations
o f Englishmen " What does independence mean in the
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one other than one s self Is it possible at the present day
.
There can only be o n e answer now there has only been one
,
history was young when science was youn g when great and
, ,
But as the world has gone o n the small peoples have e xisted
, ,
not to stay only but to take full control alike o f Egypt and
o f the Sudan .
”
how troublesome soever it mi ght be to govern it He could .
may be noted was one o f the very few cases in which going
,
back was fina l and had a satis factory issue When English.
add the usual res ult has been one and the same sooner
,
—
o r later their policy has been overborne The determi n ing
.
by that control and what signs are there that they appre c i
,
has been said fig u res are often suspect they are unless
, , ,
216 THE BRITISH EMPIRE on .
does not by itself prove any very special merit in the British
Empire except so far as the English are proficient in
,
public works .
were given final form and shape in most cases while they ,
English who had been their special foes and rivals Still .
,
thinks that it was not who lly a military revolt but a mutiny ,
, ,
,
2 20 THE BRITISH EMPIRE on .
the regime under w hi ch they live with the order under which
other peoples pass their lives To them what is good in
.
be their motive they are sending their sons side by side with
,
the horizon o f the Empire is hers she takes her part and
sends her men In South Africa with the Great War but
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,
mines but the tin mines would not a fford sufficient attrae
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tion unless the profits from mining were secure lives safe , ,
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other nations decided that he shoul d be an Englishman
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man of England He is ba dly o ff in England could not m g i s ,
an a n
be worse he says There are the Bri ti sh Domi ni ons beyond fr m the
, .
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m
the seas not o nly sen ding corn and beef and mutton and ffgffig
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lands where they will be under the same flag under similar ,
’
Ask at Price s candle factory at Lever s soap works at ,
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Cadbury s cocoa mills What feeds the cotton mills o f
.
Lancashire " Where does the rubber come from for the
Coventry mo tor works " Where are the bananas grown
which the costermonger is selling in the streets " The
answer comes back : all t hi s is true It is true and we know .
,
know it that our tea and sugar and tobacco and cotton
,
come from tropical lands But this does n o t prove the value
.
under the British flag and do not grow any the better for
,
, ,
, ,
class Powers she must in a more real and more vital sense
, ,
the estimate which others form o f her the area and the ,
there but they are n o t the miles that they once were The
,
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future and bear in mind that under the rule o f science the
,
waking reality .
he will find some o n e to tell him that all these good thi ngs
might and would have accrued without the Empire If .
,
lot in the world ; and never having known any other than
English conditions he concludes that different conditions
,
would rather remain a British subj ect than be the subj ect
o f some other Power ; and so far as Canada Australia New , ,
is heart and soul with them This is not the same thing
.
R o u gh he w th m h w w w ill
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e o e ,
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and to supplement Shakespeare s words with Tennyson s ’ ’
that
thr o u gh the i cr ea i g p urp o e ru
ag e s o n e n s n s n s,
both o f the race which has extended its Emp ire and o f the
races over which the Empire has been extended There .
is no cant o r hyp ocrisy in the vie wthat all peoples have their
work to do in the world and that the English are o n e o f the
,
”
know them If the end of England came to day and the
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,
THE BRITISH EMPIRE on . VI
island were merged in the se a which has ever b een its good
friend the work would remain behind and the world wo uld
, ,
be a better world for the fact that Englishmen had lived and
wrought in it and left their posterity beyond the ocean to
,
square still the original home o f the race the corner stone
, ,
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whi ch thi s small area o f land which was once the extreme
,
a new thing in the exp erience o f men that a people who have ,
the less been constantly giving and that in some strange way
,
Briti h c ol on i ti on 4 2 46
s sa , , , 48 t
e
‘
o H ry VII 2 0
n en
seq . o pl ta ti n s 7 3 2 05
n an o , ,
C d S ee Cana da
an a a. o n tr p o rtati on 62
an s ,
di c o v ry 2 1
s e B ffin 5 3
a
en B h m s 57 174
a a a , ,
S ch e m e 8 6 , l gisl tur 17 4
e a e,
sl va tra d S ee S l v tr de
e e. a e a B ker 14 6
a ,
Un it d S ta t s S ee Un ite d S ta t s
e e . e B alti m o r L rd 5 0 e, o ,
Am e ric S uth d Ce tr al
a, o an n B d 65
an a,
Mo r oe d o ctri
n S eM o e d oc ne. e o nr B ks S ir Jose ph 102
an , ,
tri ne B ta m 6 3 6 5
an , ,
sl v tr d S ee S l ve tr de
a e a e. a a Barb dos 42 5 7 60 16 4 17 4 2 10
a
Am ric S p i h— l ve tr d 60
, , , , , ,
e a, an s s a a e, Briti h c ol is ti 5 7
s on a on ,
A m eric War of In de pe d n c e 7 7
an n e , l gisl t r 1 7 4
e a u e,
9 5 , 2 17 B r tapl e 69
a ns ,
An gl o S x n in vas i o n of Brita in 8
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a o , B ra 6 4
as ,
An so Lord 101 1 13
n, , , B sutol d 1 2 9 1 7 8 17 9
a an , , ,
An t rctic e x pl r ti 1 4 5
a o a on , B thur t 12 3
a s ,
An tigua 5 7 , Be lgi re f ug s in E gl d 4 4
an ee n an ,
Ar bi P sha 14 9
a a , B lgiu m G rm n in v i on (vi ol ti o
e , e a as a n
A c t 94
r o , f utr lity ) 2 4 3
o ne a , ,
Aristo tl e 7 8 , B c ol e 6 5 1 13
en o n, ,
Arm da S ee S p nis h Ar m d a
a . a a B g l 64 9 4 9 8
en a , , ,
Artillery fi t pi c es m d i E g
, rs e a e n n B ni 3 4
e n,
l d durin g Hen ry VI I I s re ig
an .
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n, Be rm ud s 42 5 4 163 17 4a , , , ,
24 l gi l tur 17 4
e s a e,
Asc si o 105
en n, B rn d otte 9 9
e a ,
Asha ti w rs 124
n a , Bid f rd 69
e o ,
c o tituti on 17 1
ns ,
B rd of Tr ad e d Pl tati
oa an an o ns , 72
e x pl o r ti o 13 4 a n, 107
g o ld disc o v ry of 13 3
, e ,
B oe rs , 1 16, 12 5 , 15 3 , 1 9 6, 2 2 1 . S eé
Parli m ts 17 1 a en , I
also Tran s vaal , an d So uth Afri
rac es 1 65 , c an wa rs
st te rig h t
a 17 1 s, B oe r w r S e S o ut h Afric
a s. e an wa r s
13 2 B m bay pr es id cy 182
o en ,
B ug in vill D 102 1 13
o a e, e, , Bro kh r t S p uit 13 1
n o s r ,
Brab t J h Duk of 17
an , o n , e , Broo k R j h J m 14 3
e, a a a e s,
Br dd ock G e r l 80
a , ne a , Brun i 18 1 e ,
Br d (H ty o f 5 1
e a, ea , Bull r Ch rl 1 18
e , a es ,
Bri sb 13 3
an e , Bull r S ir R dv rs 13 1
e , e e ,
Bri st l 14 15 69
o , , , B ulu wayo , 15 1
Brit i R o m 6
a n, an , Burk E d u d
e, m n , 96 , 1 3 4
Britis h ch r cte r 19 4 et seqa a , . Bur m a, 14 1, 15 7
Briti h C lum bi 1 19
s o a, Bur m se W e 113 ar 1 4 1, 15 7
Briti h C tt G r w i g Associ ti o
s o on -
o n a n, Burt 14 6 on ,
2 29 Bushir 64 e,
15 6 Butt 5 3 on,
Briti h E m pir
s e Byn g Ad m ir l 100
,
a ,
19 1
A m ric a W r o f I d p d c
e n a n e en en e, Cab o t J ohn 2 1 2 2 5 4 62 2 02
, , , , , ,
ff ct f 9 7
e e o , Cab o t Se b tia 2 2 2 5 2 04
,
as n, , ,
b fi ts to
ene B riti h pe pl n on -
s o es Ca diz 205 ,
w it h i th E m pir 2 15 et seq
n e e, . C l is 1 1
a a ,
o f, 1 Califo rn i 3 5 a,
cli ma te 1 63 , Ca md n 3 1 e ,
c l isati
o on firs t tte m pts on , a at, 34 Ca m pb ll S i C lin e S ee Clyd L rd
, r o . e, o
ci seq . Cana da
dive r iti s 162 195
s e , ,
Adv tur r t C da 5 2 en e s o an a ,
pl in ed 4 1 et s q 109
a , e .
,
Briti h pr f r c 7 1 s e e en e,
G rme m is c c pti ns l 19 5
an on e o , ,
c ol isa ti 5 2 16 2
on on , ,
gr ow th its gr du l 2 14, a a ,
c n f ed r ti n 1 19 16 9
o e a o , ,
m ea i g its 2 00 et eq
n n , , s . c tituti 17 1
o ns on ,
origins 5 ,
F r c h C n di ns 19 6 2 18 2 2 1
en a a a , , , ,
o v rs as
e te rpri
e d xp nsio en se a n e a n, 2 22
5 , 18 ci s eq . , 109 , 2 01 g vr
o e n men t r p
ibl 1 18
,
es on s e,
products 164 2 27 , ,
H uds o n B ay C o m p y s te rrit ri an
’
o e s,
r c 1 65
a e s, 12 1
r in g g ins t 2 16
is s a a ,
l oy l t r f ug es fro m Un ite d
a is e e
te ur s 16 6
n e ,
a a n n ,
British Un i o Act n 1 19
2 40 THE BRITISH EMPIRE
C i g G rg
ann n , eo e, 114 Ci qu P rt 12
n e o s, , 70
C t 6 5 14 3
an o n , ,
Civil r vic c l se es , o o ni a l , 187 , 1 9 3
C ut Ki g 8
an e, n , l ri es 193
sa a ,
Cape C o st C tle 5 9 12 4
a as , , Clap pe rton, 1 4 6
C p e Co l o y
a n Cl d
aren o n , 2 10
g o ve r m e t r sp ons ibl 12 9
n n , e e, O iv b rt
l e , R o e , 86, 9 2 , 9 3 , 9 7 , 9 8, 106 ,
te rrito ri al e x p nsi o 12 9 a n, 1 93 , 19 4
tran sp ortati on 62 , Cl th tr d
o a e 15 , I 7 ,
C pe of G o o d H p e c ircu mn aviga
a o , C yd L rd
l e, o , 14 1
ti on of 2 1 , C bb tt Wil
o e , li am , 1 14
Caraus ius , 6 C bd
o en , Ric h rda , 1 1 8, 2 2 8
C rlyl
a E gli h c h r ct r 2 3 3
e , on n s a a e , C c K li g I l d 1 13
o os -
ee n s an s,
C r rv L rd 170
a na on , o ,
Cl Bi h p 1 3 0
o e ns o , s o ,
C r tic 9 3
a na ,
C ll y S i G rg 1 3 1
o e , r eo e,
C r li 3 6 5 1 6 2
a o na, , , C l i l O ffi c 7 2 107 142
o on a e, , , , 17 7
C rt g
a a 100en a,
C rti r J cqu 2 5
a e , a e s, c onstituti on s 1 67 et seq ,
.
, 176
C tri h rb u f 9 2
as es, a o r o , Cro wn 167 17 6 et seq , ,
. c ons titu
C th y 2 6
a a , ti s 17 8 on ,
C th y C m p y f 3 2 5 3
a a , o an o , , f d r ti o 169
e e a n,
C th ri f Br g z 65
a e ne o a an a , g o ve r m e t res p o ibl e
n n ,
ns , 1 1 8 , 12 9
C v di h Th m 29
a en s , o as, 1 69
C l b 65
e e es , g ve rn m e t self 15 0 168
o n , , ,
C t w y Ki g 1 30
e e a o, n , r pr es e tative i tituti n s
e n ns o ,
C yl 6 4 101 17 9 1 84 18 7
e on , , , , , ni w ith 1 7 4
o es ,
Ch rles I 67
a .
, to ry c o m par d 40 e ,
Ch rl IL 5 1
a es ,
En gli h atte m pts rly 3 4 4 3
s ,
ea , ,
Cha rt re d c o m p an i es 2 6 3 1
e , , et s eq tr de rel ati on t 46 65 69 2 02 3
a , o, , , ,
-
Ch th m L rd 88 9 5
a a , o , , , 98 Co m p an i s c ha rte red S ee Char
e ,
.
Ch th m Ch t 3 1
a a es ,
”
te d c o m p re i es an
Ch l m f rd L rd 13 1
e s o , o , Com pani s jo in t to ck S ee Jo in t
e ,
-
s .
Ch t r
es e , 70 Co m p anies m erc han t S ee Mer ,
.
Ch i na c h t c o m p i es
an an
E ur o p n in tru i 4 3 144
ea s on , , Co cticut 168
nn e ,
te rrit ry 2 2 3 o , et seq .
Chi s w rs 14 3
ne e a , Co ns tituti ons d o m in i ,
o n an d c ol on i l a ,
Chins ur h 9 3 1 40 a , , 16 7 et s eq .
, 1 7 6, 1 7 8
Christm as I l n d 158 s a , C k C pt i J
oo , a a n a m es, 102 , 12 0, 1 3 5 ,
Ch urc h Mis si onary S oci e ty 1 35 156 , , 145
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
E gl d
n an -
{ o min u ed Fr bi h r M rti
o s e , a n, 2 9 , 3 1, 3 2 , 5 3 , 6 2 ,
R o m an in fl u ce 6 en s, 2 05
c tl d uni o w ith 5
S o an ,
n , F ll r
u e , 7 3 , 13 2 , 160, 2 06
se ve t e t h c en tury p litic l his
n e n , o a
to ry f 4 7 o , Gl a am , 92
E gli h c ha r ct r dive r el m ts
n s a e , se e en G allic , 19 8
o f 5 ; C arlyl
, o 233 e n, G am bi
a, 5 8 , 1 2 4 , 1 5 2
E t rprise
n e G eo rg
ia, 5 1, 6 2 , 85
m tiv e f E m pir e
o s 2 03 o , a a, G r
e ma n,i L rd G rg
o eo e , 1 07 .
o v rs a e S ee Ov rse s
e te rpri
s. e a en se G e m anr i i r ti
mm g a o n i t British
n o
E pe b l c of p ow r 7 9
ur o an a an e e , p os ssi ns 2 2 3 se o ,
E xecutiv Co u cils 1 7 6 e n , G rm y
e an
E xpl or ti o 1 45 a n, c ol i l xp ns i
on a d c l ni l e a on an o o a
E yre G o ve rn o r 123 13 4 13 5
, , , , p olicy 1 5 0 1 5 4 15 6 19 1 , , , ,
go v r m e t b s lute 169
e n n , a o ,
F lkl d I l d 1 13
a an s an s, i vas i on of Belgium 2 4 3
n , ,
F l m th 69
a ou ,
u if rm ity G r m an beli f 19 5
n o , e e ,
F i g I l d 15 2
ann n s an , w r e x pl in e d the pr se n t 7 7
a a ,
e ,
F d r t d M l y St t
e e a e a a a e s. S ee Mly a a Gh zni 140
a ,
t te s
S a Gh t Treaty of 100
en , ,
Fe d r ti on c ol o i l 1 69 et s q
e a ,
n a ,
e . G ibb o c om m t o Cn, ius 6 en n araus ,
Fiji 189
, G ibraltar 13 9 160 1 6 3 179 , , , ,
Fitz he rb rt H u m p hr y 5 2 e , e ,
G ilbe rt S i H u m phr y 2 6 3 0 3 5
, r e , , ,
Fl em i h s ttl m t i E gl d 15
s e e en n n an , ,
45 G ilbe rt Isl d 15 2 an s,
Fl orid 3 5 9 2 a, , G in gihlo vo , 13 1
F rb es 89
o , G ipp G rg 13 6
s , S ir eo e,
F rm osa 64
o , Gl d t
a 148 s on e,
F rr st S ir J h 1 3 5
o e , o n, Gl lg L rd 12 6 17 8
en e , o , , , 2 07
F ow y 13 6 9
e , , G oa , 14 0
F o x , 107 G ld C t 5 8 12 3 15 3 19 1
o o as , , , ,
F x 53
o e, G rm ttl m t 19 1
e an se e en ,
F c
ran e G m br , 64
o oo n
E gl d n an ea rly re lati ns bs o su e G rd G r l 14 9
o on , en e a
No rm C on q u t 9 ;
, ,
q u e t to n an es , G r i l d f 92
o ee, s an o ,
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,
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a an es ,
H ud son B ay o m C p an y, 5 4 , 8 4 , 1 2 0,
Gu d l up 92
a e o e, 12 1
G ui Briti h 5 7 102 184
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100
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H ugu e n o s, t 4 4, 5 2
l gi l tur 1 7 6
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n ea o , 34 Hyd r b d 9 3
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I m p ri l Briti h E t Afric
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H m pd Jo hn 7 0
a en , , pa y 14 9 15 6 n , ,
Ha in gt Bi sh p 15 6
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H n o ve ri n S ucc si 7 5
a a es o n, I m pe ri l c tr l 17 3 17 5 17 6
a on o , , ,
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se e n s, , I m pe rial un ity 17 4 ,
H sti g 12
a n s, I de pe n de c 2 11
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a , d m i i tr ti o 18 1 186 et seq
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.
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a n s, r a , Briti sh In di E mpire o rigi n f an ,
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a ns a , Briti h s o ccup ti a on, re as o ns fo r,
H lig l d 101
e o an , 68
H ri tt M ri 5 0
en e a a a, Britis h pred o mi c 9 2 n an e ,
H ry IV 19
en .
, Briti h te rrit ri l acquisiti o ns
s o a , 65,
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, 9 3 , 16 2
H ry VII 19
en . Civil rvic 186 ; al ari es 19 3
Se e, s ,
H ry VIII 10 11 2 0 2 3
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2 44 THE BRITISH E MPIRE
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n a — co n tin ue d L b urd
a o i 86 9 3 on na s , ,
railway s 19 0 , L bu 14 3 15 8
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182 L g 12 5 15 3 2 08
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a o e,
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an as r o on n us , 70
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n ans , No rt h A ric m e an , un s cru pu L c t r J m 3 4 63
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l ou s u s o en 87
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James I 5 , 46 .
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am e s o w n , 4 8 Libe l of E nglis h Policie qu o te d , ,
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Je fl re ys, ge, 4 7 Lib rty 2 3 2
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am , Lon don Missionary S ocie ty , 1 35 , 13 7
K r ac h i 1 4 0
a , Lon d on p o rt of 1 3 69, , ,
K d ah 6 5 104
e , , Lo uis "I V 7 8
K e rse y 15 ,
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Kh rto um 14 9
a , Lo uisi n a 8 6 90 a , ,
K im b rl y 130 e e ,
Ki g t n H ll 13
s on on - -
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Willi am , 15 5
K ri M ri I l d 13 9
u a a a s an s, M cl a e an , C pt i a a n, 124
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
N vy—
a c ti on n u ed New Orl 90 e ans ,
Eliz b th a e an s eam e n s
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g i t S p i 2 8 t eq
a a ns a n, e s . N w P ly m uth 50
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H en ry V I I I s p licy 2 3 ,
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e ea an , , , ,
n ti o al r p ns ibility b gi i g
na es o , e nn n Briti h s v r ig ty 13 6
s o e e n ,
o f, 70 c l o i ti 1 3 5
o n sa on,
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a oa ea e , 24 D om i i o f r m d 17 0
n n o e ,
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104 , 113 , 1 2 4 , 1 4 0 M o ri ri i gs 1 3 6
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12 4 N w Z e l d As o ci ti o
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11 3 , 1 40 a a o
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5 9 , 6 4 , 104 , 1 1 3 , 12 4 , 140 ,
I di Dutc h ctivity i 9 3 9 4
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,
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,
28 on on o s e mi gr ti o a n to e e
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N o rt h E s t P ss g 14 5
,
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o a o a, 5 2 , 83 , 8 7 , 9 0
9 7 , 1 22 , 15 2 , 169 Fre c h c ssi on t E gl an d
n e o n 85
Nyas L ke 146
,
Briti h nn x ti o 3 5
s a e a n, a, a
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s o n sa on , , , a o ,
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9 7 , 15 2 Oléro n , aw s o f, 10 L
U tr c ht Tr ty
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s ann e a o ,
G rm 1 5 2 e an , Ora ge R iv r S o ve r ig ty 12 8
n e e n ,
N w H brid es 1 5 2 1 6 7
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N ew H ll d S e Au tr li
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5 , 18 , 2 1, 2 5 , 109 , 2 01 P l r xpl r ti 14 5
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O xl y 13 4
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a n, , P rt Ph illip 134
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P ri P c of 90
a s, ea e , P rt Briti h
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P rk M u g 14 6
a , n o, rly h i t ry d d v l p m t
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me a a e e ,
1 7 1, 1 7 4 o v rsea s di c v e ri e s
e n d c o l o i sa s o a n
P r m Duk f 2 9
a a, e o , ti 2 1 on,
P rry 14 5
a , Wes t Afric se ttl e me ts 5 9 an n ,
P t i 65
a an , P rtug l Prin c e H ry f 2 1
o a , en o ,
P t m cr t 9 8
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P l G rg 3 7
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P ki C v ti f 14 4
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R a w a s, 15 0
C mp y 27 o an , Ra l eigh S ir a
, W lte r , 3 0, 3 5 , 3 6 , 40 ,
Ph illip C pt i 103 , a a n, 5 8 , 6 2 , 1 08
Pi t r m ritzburg 12 7
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P ilgri m F th r 5 0 205 2 10 a e s, , , y
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Pit ir I l d 13 8
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Pitt th y u g r 9 8 107
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Plym ut h C m p y 4 8 o o an , R h o d es Ce cil 15 1 , ,
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2 48 THE BRITISH EMPIRE
R hd i S o es a, o u the rr
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S en e a , 9 2 , 9 7
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S e n a a a m 101 ,
R i l L ui v r
Se en Y ea s War, 7 9
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R o m an m e, 19 8 E pir S a ,h rp G r vi
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Se w n ,l y Bi h p s o , 13 8
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250 THE BRITISH EMPIRE
V r ill P c
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56
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12 2 , 16 4 , 1 7 5 , 18 4 , 1 8 7
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