The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 páginas |
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... Rodney - Battle of April 12 - Peace with honour - Doers and talkers CHAPTER IV . First sight of Barbadoes - Origin of the name - Père Labat - Bridge- town two hundred years ago - Slavery and Christianity- Economic crisis - Sugar ...
... Rodney - Battle of April 12 - Peace with honour - Doers and talkers CHAPTER IV . First sight of Barbadoes - Origin of the name - Père Labat - Bridge- town two hundred years ago - Slavery and Christianity- Economic crisis - Sugar ...
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... Rodney - Future of the negroes - Necessity of English rulė - The Blue Basin - Black boy and crayfish CHAPTER VIII . Home Rule in Trinidad - Political aspirations - Nature of the problem -Crown administration - Colonial governors - A ...
... Rodney - Future of the negroes - Necessity of English rulė - The Blue Basin - Black boy and crayfish CHAPTER VIII . Home Rule in Trinidad - Political aspirations - Nature of the problem -Crown administration - Colonial governors - A ...
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... Rodney shattered the French fleet , saved Gibraltar , and avenged York Town . If ever the naval exploits of this country are done REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA into an epic poem - and since the Iliad there.
... Rodney shattered the French fleet , saved Gibraltar , and avenged York Town . If ever the naval exploits of this country are done REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA into an epic poem - and since the Iliad there.
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... Rodney struck a blow in the West Indies which sounded over the world and saved for Britain her ocean sceptre . Just in time , for the popular leaders had persuaded the House of Commons that Rodney ought to be recalled and peace made on ...
... Rodney struck a blow in the West Indies which sounded over the world and saved for Britain her ocean sceptre . Just in time , for the popular leaders had persuaded the House of Commons that Rodney ought to be recalled and peace made on ...
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... Rodney -Battle of April 12 - Peace with honour - Doers and talkers . ANOTHER two days and we were in the tropics . The north- east trade blew behind us , and our own speed being taken off 1 This is the explanation of the name which is ...
... Rodney -Battle of April 12 - Peace with honour - Doers and talkers . ANOTHER two days and we were in the tropics . The north- east trade blew behind us , and our own speed being taken off 1 This is the explanation of the name which is ...
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