The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 páginas |
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... Spaniards in Cuba - Prospects - American influence - Future of the West Indies - English rumours - Leave Cuba - The harbour at night - The Bahama Channel - Hayti— Port au Prince - The black republic - West Indian history . 291 CHAPTER ...
... Spaniards in Cuba - Prospects - American influence - Future of the West Indies - English rumours - Leave Cuba - The harbour at night - The Bahama Channel - Hayti— Port au Prince - The black republic - West Indian history . 291 CHAPTER ...
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... Spaniards , and only Spaniards , should own terri- tory or carry on trade there within the tropics . The seamen of England took up the challenge and replied with cannon shot . It was not the Crown , it was not the Government , which ...
... Spaniards , and only Spaniards , should own terri- tory or carry on trade there within the tropics . The seamen of England took up the challenge and replied with cannon shot . It was not the Crown , it was not the Government , which ...
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... Spaniards the new world was the property of the Church and of those who had discovered it . A papal bull bestowed on Spain all the countries which lay within the tropics west of the Atlantic - a form of Monroe doctrine , not unreason ...
... Spaniards the new world was the property of the Church and of those who had discovered it . A papal bull bestowed on Spain all the countries which lay within the tropics west of the Atlantic - a form of Monroe doctrine , not unreason ...
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... Spaniards , Drake and his comrades were corsarios , robbers , enemies of the human race , to be treated to a short shrift whenever found and caught . British seamen who fell into their hands were carried before the Inquisition at Lima ...
... Spaniards , Drake and his comrades were corsarios , robbers , enemies of the human race , to be treated to a short shrift whenever found and caught . British seamen who fell into their hands were carried before the Inquisition at Lima ...
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... Spaniards out of Hayti , which was annexed to the French crown . The comradeship in religious enthusiasm which had originally drawn the two nations together cooled by degrees , as French Catholics as well as Protestants took to the ...
... Spaniards out of Hayti , which was annexed to the French crown . The comradeship in religious enthusiasm which had originally drawn the two nations together cooled by degrees , as French Catholics as well as Protestants took to the ...
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