Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll K. G., K. T, Vol. 2 of 2: 1823-1900, Autobiography and Memoirs
Not even some large cession Of territory would have been any equivalent for the abolition Of the ?eets, and no one knew better than Gladstone that any cession of territory of the least value for our purpose would have renewed and prolonged the war to an indefinite extent.
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