The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... French and English - 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 ...
... French and English - 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 ...
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... French inhabitants , and the French settlers had done no worse than we had done to deserve the ill will of their slaves . Fortunately opinion changed in Eng- land before the experiment could be tried . The colonial policy of the ...
... French inhabitants , and the French settlers had done no worse than we had done to deserve the ill will of their slaves . Fortunately opinion changed in Eng- land before the experiment could be tried . The colonial policy of the ...
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... , and 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.
... , and 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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... French squadrons waiting for the English sugar ships . They are calm and silent now , and are never likely to echo any more to battle thunder . Men come and go and play out their little dramas , epic or tragic , and it matters nothing ...
... French squadrons waiting for the English sugar ships . They are calm and silent now , and are never likely to echo any more to battle thunder . Men come and go and play out their little dramas , epic or tragic , and it matters nothing ...
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... French Huguenots took to sea like water dogs , and chal- lenged their enemies in their own special domain . To the popes and the Spaniards the new world was the property of the Church and of those who had discovered it . A papal bull ...
... French Huguenots took to sea like water dogs , and chal- lenged their enemies in their own special domain . To the popes and the Spaniards the new world was the property of the Church and of those who had discovered it . A papal bull ...
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