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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as had existed before the Revolution. Great Britains acquisitions were in keeping with the mari-time and colonial interests she had at stake in the great strugglewith Napoleon. Of the islands and coast lands which she hadwrested from France and her allies she kept, in the Mediterraneanand in the East, Malta and Mauritius, snatched from the French,and the Cape of Good Hope and a part of Guiana, taken from theDutch. She also secured the protectorate of the Ionian Islands,which gave her control of the Adriatic Sea. In the West Indiesshe retained two little islands (Tobago and St. Lucia) taken fromFrance.- A third matter which occupied the attention particularly of thecommittee on German affairs was the granting of constitutions 1 For further details concerning the reorganization of Germany, see sect. 633. 2 The little island of Helgoland, which commands the mouth of the Elbe, was atthis time ceded to Great Britain by Denmark. In 1S90 Great Britain ceded the islet tothe new German Empire.
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