The Historians' History of the World: The British colonies, The United States (early colonial period)Henry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... entered Muttra , in 1019 , Mahmud was amazed at the splendour displayed on all sides . This is what he wrote on the subject : " This marvellous city , " he said , " encloses more than a thousand struc- tures , the greater number in ...
... entered Muttra , in 1019 , Mahmud was amazed at the splendour displayed on all sides . This is what he wrote on the subject : " This marvellous city , " he said , " encloses more than a thousand struc- tures , the greater number in ...
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... entered Bengal , the government of which had recently been usurped , and its sovereign expelled by Shir the Afghan regent of Behar . After a negotiation , it was agreed that the government of Behar and Bengal should be conferred upon ...
... entered Bengal , the government of which had recently been usurped , and its sovereign expelled by Shir the Afghan regent of Behar . After a negotiation , it was agreed that the government of Behar and Bengal should be conferred upon ...
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... entered the service of the great Mughal , and Fitch , after a lengthened peregrination in Ceylon , Bengal , Pegu , Siam , Malacca , and other parts of the East Indies , returned to England . The defeat of the Invincible Armada in 1588 ...
... entered the service of the great Mughal , and Fitch , after a lengthened peregrination in Ceylon , Bengal , Pegu , Siam , Malacca , and other parts of the East Indies , returned to England . The defeat of the Invincible Armada in 1588 ...
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... entered the town in the same palanquin with his ally , and in the garb of a Mohammedan amir , with with which the prince himself had clothed him . He accepted , or assumed , the government , under the Mughal , of all the country along ...
... entered the town in the same palanquin with his ally , and in the garb of a Mohammedan amir , with with which the prince himself had clothed him . He accepted , or assumed , the government , under the Mughal , of all the country along ...
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... entered by an acquaintance , whom he requested to fire the pistol out of the window . The gentleman did so , and the pistol went off . At this proof that it had been rightly loaded Clive sprang up with the exclamation , " Surely then I ...
... entered by an acquaintance , whom he requested to fire the pistol out of the window . The gentleman did so , and the pistol went off . At this proof that it had been rightly loaded Clive sprang up with the exclamation , " Surely then I ...
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