WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria cover

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria

Chapter 1482: CHAPTER LXX.
By Edward Farr
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

History - BritishHistory - Modern (1750+)History - RoyaltyHistory - Warfare

About This Book

The volume traces British political, parliamentary, and military developments from the accession of George III through the early nineteenth century, chronicling changes of ministry and cabinet, debates over colonial taxation and the American conflict, parliamentary controversies involving figures such as Wilkes and Warren Hastings, questions of Catholic relief and slave-trade abolition, and responses to the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars, including major naval and continental campaigns, the union with Ireland, and domestic legislation on finance, civil liberties, and parliamentary reform.

CHAPTER LXX.

VICTORIA. 1858-1859

Foreign Affairs..... Various important transactions in Asia..... Breaking out of a new War with China..... Violation of treaty by Japan..... Russian designs upon that Empire..... Russian encroachments upon China..... French attempts at conquests in Cochin China..... France: Rivalry with England; irritating language of the French Press; ostensible alliance and co-operation with England; real jealousy and contravention of British interests and policy; dispute about a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Suez; also concerning electric communication between England and France..... Commercial intercourse..... Supposed designs of France in Northern Africa..... Attempt to Assassinate the Emperor of the French, and effect upon the alliance with England..... War between France and Austria, and its influence upon English public opinion and policy..... Naples..... Prussia: closer alliance with England..... Spain: war with Morocco; English protests..... Hanover: the Stade dues..... United States of America..... Relations with the South American States..... Colonies: India, Borneo, Australia, New Zealand, African Settlements, British Colombia, Jamaica..... Ireland..... Home: the Court, National Finance, Commerce..... General Home Polities and Prospects..... Parliamentary Affairs..... Conclusion of this History.