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... employed in enabling men to violate the laws of their own country with impunity . 3rd . That our Colonial policy at Cape Coast Castle , as elsewhere , ought to be one essentially pacific and defensive . 4th . That we ought not to allow ...
... employed in enabling men to violate the laws of their own country with impunity . 3rd . That our Colonial policy at Cape Coast Castle , as elsewhere , ought to be one essentially pacific and defensive . 4th . That we ought not to allow ...
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... employed one or more among them is struck from behind a blow which sends him stunned into the pit , where he is then despatched . 66 6 " This is the system which ' One who knows , ' or , as he now calls himself , One who does , ' would ...
... employed one or more among them is struck from behind a blow which sends him stunned into the pit , where he is then despatched . 66 6 " This is the system which ' One who knows , ' or , as he now calls himself , One who does , ' would ...
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... employed with any chance of success . But white troops , if kept on the Coast during all the unhealthy months which would be necessary to prepare the way for an advance up the country , would infallibly perish . No middle way seems to ...
... employed with any chance of success . But white troops , if kept on the Coast during all the unhealthy months which would be necessary to prepare the way for an advance up the country , would infallibly perish . No middle way seems to ...
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... employ more than an insignificant part of the special forces which guard this petty corner of the vast realms which own her as Sovereign . " When you recently assailed her forts , they were held only by a handful of men . Yet your ...
... employ more than an insignificant part of the special forces which guard this petty corner of the vast realms which own her as Sovereign . " When you recently assailed her forts , they were held only by a handful of men . Yet your ...
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... employ a ruse for the purpose of concealing the General's intentions , and this was most successfully done . " We have all heard lately that certain tribes on the Volta , the Aquimoos especially , have been engaged on a sort of ...
... employ a ruse for the purpose of concealing the General's intentions , and this was most successfully done . " We have all heard lately that certain tribes on the Volta , the Aquimoos especially , have been engaged on a sort of ...
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