. Essentials in English history (from the earliest records to the present day). GEgneu A 180 150 120 90 60 Longitude 30 544 West * —ii 4. 546 GREATER ENGLAND Up tlieir residence abroad, and those destined for the far Eastare trained as secretaries to the diplomats in the districts towhich they will later be assigned. Great Britains system of world-empire is closely connectedwith her supremacy on the sea, both military and Enff- ^^ ^^^ ^s hardy mariners that the Angles, Saxons, andlands navy Danes won their foothold in Britain. By the first of along series of navigation acts, whi
. Essentials in English history (from the earliest records to the present day). GEgneu A 180 150 120 90 60 Longitude 30 544 West * —ii 4. 546 GREATER ENGLAND Up tlieir residence abroad, and those destined for the far Eastare trained as secretaries to the diplomats in the districts towhich they will later be assigned. Great Britains system of world-empire is closely connectedwith her supremacy on the sea, both military and Enff- ^^ ^^^ ^s hardy mariners that the Angles, Saxons, andlands navy Danes won their foothold in Britain. By the first of along series of navigation acts, which forbade any one toship any merchandise . . but only in ships of the Hegance, Richard II. (1382) began to build up Eng-st. 1. c. 3 lands carrying trade. The Elizabethan seamen droveSpain from the field, the fleets of the Stuarts crippled Holland,those of the early Hanoverians held France in check, andfinally Napoleons folly gave Great Britain an excuse forcrushing out all possible rivals, and enabled her to monopolizefor a time the maritime commerce of the world. At the begin-ning of the twentieth century the fo
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