The Annual Register, Volume 143Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1902 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... AND IRELAND CHAPTER VI . SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER . ( By F. HARCOURT KITCHIN , Editor of the " Financial Half - Year . " ) FINANCE AND TRADE [ 227 ⚫ [ 235 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY CHAPTER I. vi CONTENTS .
... AND IRELAND CHAPTER VI . SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER . ( By F. HARCOURT KITCHIN , Editor of the " Financial Half - Year . " ) FINANCE AND TRADE [ 227 ⚫ [ 235 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY CHAPTER I. vi CONTENTS .
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Edmund Burke. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II . GERMANY AND AUSTRIA - HUNGARY CHAPTER III . • page [ 240 RUSSIA TURKEY AND THE MINOR STATES OF EASTERN EUROPE CHAPTER IV . LESSER STATES OF WESTERN AND ...
Edmund Burke. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II . GERMANY AND AUSTRIA - HUNGARY CHAPTER III . • page [ 240 RUSSIA TURKEY AND THE MINOR STATES OF EASTERN EUROPE CHAPTER IV . LESSER STATES OF WESTERN AND ...
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... France . She had seen , as Queen , three monarchs of Spain , and four Sovereigns of the House of Savoy in Italy . In all those kingdoms which have been carved out of the Turkish Empire she had seen the foundation of their reigning ...
... France . She had seen , as Queen , three monarchs of Spain , and four Sovereigns of the House of Savoy in Italy . In all those kingdoms which have been carved out of the Turkish Empire she had seen the foundation of their reigning ...
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... France excepted , they all - Germany , Austria , Italy , the United States and Japan - were reported to have , with England , urged China not to conduct negotiations , at the present time , with any individual Power , tending to impair ...
... France excepted , they all - Germany , Austria , Italy , the United States and Japan - were reported to have , with England , urged China not to conduct negotiations , at the present time , with any individual Power , tending to impair ...
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... France and Russia , he declared that in 1901-2 we should spend 12,000,000l . more than those two countries taken together . Our estimates were , in fact , equal to the sum of the estimates of the other four naval Powers of Europe . He ...
... France and Russia , he declared that in 1901-2 we should spend 12,000,000l . more than those two countries taken together . Our estimates were , in fact , equal to the sum of the estimates of the other four naval Powers of Europe . He ...
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Page 14 - LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS (Third Series). Comprising a Short Natural History of the Wildfowl that are Rare or Common to the British Islands, with Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and Inland.
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