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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.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
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
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On July 28, 1898, General Nelson Appleton Miles, commander in chief of the American army, marched into Ponce.
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The Second Anglo-Boer War
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Colonial Sustainability: Tracing the sustainability industry’s ecocidal lineage from the Doctrine…
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