"The Philippines was the gateway to China and Japan! No one would allow a great Power to come and settle there."

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BelgiumHistory of AfricaBelgian CongoBelgian Colonial EmpireRuanda-Urundi
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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 8. The Short Colonial Careers of Jules Greindl, Eugène père Beyens, Eugène Napoléon Beyens and Maximilien Strauch, A Skeptical Jules Greindl (1835-1917) During the second Carlist War (1872-1876), which eventually gave the throne to Alfonso XII. At that time, Spain was completely immersed in anarchy and chaos with accompanying political instability, as a result o