William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . the British race were to receive, asan inheritance, a vast empire bounded by the ArcticSea and the Pacific Ocean. In India a few scatteredfactories had been made into an empire and both inBengal and the Carnatic the foundations of supremedominion had been surely laid. Above all, GreatBritain had asserted more absolutely and more uni-versally than in any previous era that command ofthe sea which has been at all times the means atonce of her safety and of her imperial had been admirals
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . the British race were to receive, asan inheritance, a vast empire bounded by the ArcticSea and the Pacific Ocean. In India a few scatteredfactories had been made into an empire and both inBengal and the Carnatic the foundations of supremedominion had been surely laid. Above all, GreatBritain had asserted more absolutely and more uni-versally than in any previous era that command ofthe sea which has been at all times the means atonce of her safety and of her imperial had been admirals as valiant as Hawke orBoscawen, but never before a statesman who hadperceived, as Pitt perceived, that the naval force ofGreat Britain could be used to isolate and conquerthe arms of her European enemies in every part ofthe globe. The navy of France was crippled andher colonies reduced, and when Pitt learned thatSpain had joined France he saw that there werefresh worlds to conquer, and that the empire whichColumbus had founded would offer rich spoils to thecountrymen of Raleigh and
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