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Sir Ernest Scott. Terre Napoleon
Terre Napoleon
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. FLINDERS AND THE INVESTIGATOR
CHAPTER 2. THE AFFAIR OF ENCOUNTER BAY
CHAPTER 3. PORT PHILLIP
CHAPTER 4. TERRE NAPOLEON AND ITS NOMENCLATURE
CHAPTER 5. DID THE FRENCH USE FLINDERS' CHARTS?
CHAPTER 6. THE MOTIVES OF BONAPARTE
CHAPTER 7. GENESIS OF BAUDIN'S EXPEDITION
CHAPTER 8. EXODUS OF THE EXPEDITION
CHAPTER 9. PORT JACKSON AND KING ISLAND
CHAPTER 10. RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION
CHAPTER 11. RESULTS
CHAPTER 12. CONCLUSIONS AND CONSEQUENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
THE END
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Sir Ernest Scott
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It would be simple to sum up the colonial situation of Great Britain in the period under review, by saying that she gained just in the measure that France lost. But such a crude formula would not convey a sufficient sense of her actual achievements. The end of the great war left her with a wider dominion than that with which she was endowed when she plunged into the struggle; but it left her also with augmented power and prestige, a settled sense of security, and a steeled spirit of resolution—elements not measurable on the scale of the map, but counting as immense factors in the government and development of oversea possessions.
The details of the British colonial empire during the storm epoch, are as follow:—
