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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News yesterday. (search)
under the vigorous administration of Cromwell, she became more powerful, more feared, and more respected, than she had ever been at any former period of her history. The long misrule of Charles H. and his brother again caused England to lose all influence abroad. Perhaps her condition was never so pitiable as during the Dutch maritime wars, when the cannon of the enemy were heard at the palace of White Hall. But no sooner had James H. been expelled, and his place filled by William of Orange, a man of great enterprise and consummate vigor and conduct, than she instantly resumed her rank among the foremost States of the world. She relapsed again, about 1761-62, when the reins were taken from the bands of the elder Pitt and placed in those of Lord Bute. The change seems to have been more rapid than it had ever been. In 1760 she was triumphant over France in all parts of the world. In America she had conquered Canada, in the West Indies she had taken Havana, and in the East Ind