Sublime

Now the once-powerful British Empire had softened into a weak thing called the Commonwealth, with virtually no sway over its independent members' actions. Instead, the Indians of South Africa placed their hope in a brand-new invention: the United Nations.

Negotiations with Anglo-Persian moved quickly enough that by the summer of 1914 the British government was in a position to buy a 51 per cent stake – and, with it, operational control of the business. Churchill’s eloquence in the House of Commons saw a large majority vote in favour. And so it was that British policymakers, planners and military

On July 28, 1898, General Nelson Appleton Miles, commander in chief of the American army, marched into Ponce.

The Second Anglo-Boer War