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... Colonies , with their enormous future potentialities , due to the grossest impolicy , may well have served to check any nascent Imperial aspirations ; few could have foreseen that the loss would prove a gain , and that it would be ...
... Colonies , with their enormous future potentialities , due to the grossest impolicy , may well have served to check any nascent Imperial aspirations ; few could have foreseen that the loss would prove a gain , and that it would be ...
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... colonies . Years of peace had reduced the Army to an aggregate of gallant regiments , untrained and unprepared for war ; but disaster on the upland before Sebastopol - barely averted - would not have shaken the foundations of the Empire ...
... colonies . Years of peace had reduced the Army to an aggregate of gallant regiments , untrained and unprepared for war ; but disaster on the upland before Sebastopol - barely averted - would not have shaken the foundations of the Empire ...
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... colonies improvisation has been necessary to an extent which is calculated to raise grave reflections . In place of organised bodies , passing smoothly from a state of peace to one of war , new units have to be created and equipped ...
... colonies improvisation has been necessary to an extent which is calculated to raise grave reflections . In place of organised bodies , passing smoothly from a state of peace to one of war , new units have to be created and equipped ...
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... colonies it is dormant . The Colonial forces contain some of the finest fighting material in the world . With them as with us there is no lack of men . An organisation based upon Imperial needs and not on local caprice , combined with a ...
... colonies it is dormant . The Colonial forces contain some of the finest fighting material in the world . With them as with us there is no lack of men . An organisation based upon Imperial needs and not on local caprice , combined with a ...
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... Colonies and a draft from India , would have been sufficient to accomplish the objects we had in view . Since then we have mobilised a Fifth and a Sixth Division , a Seventh is under orders , and there is talk of an Eighth ; and we are ...
... Colonies and a draft from India , would have been sufficient to accomplish the objects we had in view . Since then we have mobilised a Fifth and a Sixth Division , a Seventh is under orders , and there is talk of an Eighth ; and we are ...
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Page 150 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Page 57 - Butter and honey shall he eat, That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, The land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
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Page 66 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
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Page 504 - The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.