"Definitively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... share in the eastern trade which they had enjoyed before the discovery of the route by the Cape of Good Hope. The political and commercial interests of England were bound up with the sea route, especially after the Cape was definitively assigned to her by the Peace of Paris of 1814; but she could not see with indifference the control by France of a canal which would divert trade once more to the old overland route. That danger was ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose |
