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...ung on a thread, and when we had done, far in the night, threw the burning brands high into the air like sky rockets, which, coming down into the pon... ...n bury ing ground, a little on one side, near the unmarked graves of some British grenadiers who fell in the re treat from Concord where he is styl... ...nd mean. We think that we can change our clothes only. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States ar... ...t believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind. Who kn...

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...close shave it had been. Through bombed ruins she makes her way each day to British Army HQ, showing German clerks how to impress with expert, effici... ...her family and house her rewards in this life she has made across the sea. A British citizen of many years, yet still the voice betrays an accent ever... ...uished service, mentioned in dispatches, family honor retrieved. Part of the British occupation on the shattered German soil, encounter with a native... ...cting perhaps would have suited her more, for sincerity is not a trait that brands this soul; her friendliness a facade that quickly dissolves under...

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...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ...nocents in the process. More than 100,000 civilians died in Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London... ...with these developments in Europe and North America and began to espouse their own brands of jingoistic patriotisms. Attempts to impose liberal-dem... ...lationships. This was also manifested during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. British intelligence and part of the Pakistani intelligence comm...