A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The age of revolutionCassell, 1956 - English-speaking countries |
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Page 63
... Minorca , with its fine harbour at Mahon , gave to the English Navy at last a secure , permanent base in the Mediterranean . Thus the year which had opened in such dismal fashion ended in complete victory for the Allies . Louis XIV made ...
... Minorca , with its fine harbour at Mahon , gave to the English Navy at last a secure , permanent base in the Mediterranean . Thus the year which had opened in such dismal fashion ended in complete victory for the Allies . Louis XIV made ...
Page 78
... Minorca and Gibraltar , thus securing to her , while she remained the chief sea - Power , the entry and control of the Mediterranean . Commercial advantages , one day to provoke another war , were obtained in Spanish South America , and ...
... Minorca and Gibraltar , thus securing to her , while she remained the chief sea - Power , the entry and control of the Mediterranean . Commercial advantages , one day to provoke another war , were obtained in Spanish South America , and ...
Page 114
... Minorca raised a national outcry . The Government , faced with this national dis- grace , lost its nerve . Cumberland's favourite , Henry Fox , bolted into retirement . The Government shifted the blame on to Admiral Byng , whose ill ...
... Minorca raised a national outcry . The Government , faced with this national dis- grace , lost its nerve . Cumberland's favourite , Henry Fox , bolted into retirement . The Government shifted the blame on to Admiral Byng , whose ill ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I WILLIAM OF ORANGE | 3 |
CONTINENTAL WAR | 13 |
THE SPANISH SUCCESSION | 23 |
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