Premiership Of Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two separate occasions, first in 1868 and then between 1874 and 1880.
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... Disraeli purchased 176,602 shares in the Canal in order to stop the imperial lifeline to India and Australia falling into French hands ... Disraeli persuaded Lionel de Rothschild to lend the British government the £4m needed to purchase the shares ... Like Lord Palmerston before him, Disraeli believed that an integral Ottoman Empire would be barrier to Russian advance in the Mediterranean, something which was regarded as a threat ...
... Disraeli purchased 176,602 shares in the Canal in order to stop the imperial lifeline to India and Australia falling into French hands ... Disraeli persuaded Lionel de Rothschild to lend the British government the £4m needed to purchase the shares ... Like Lord Palmerston before him, Disraeli believed that an integral Ottoman Empire would be barrier to Russian advance in the Mediterranean, something which was regarded as a threat ...
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