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The price of Empire has always been a high one , and nowhere higher than in the West Indies where British troops died in their thousands . One account tells us that the loss of life among the British troops , notably at St Lucia ...
The price of Empire has always been a high one , and nowhere higher than in the West Indies where British troops died in their thousands . One account tells us that the loss of life among the British troops , notably at St Lucia ...
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His first exhibi- tion was the simple marble slabs put up by the officers to the memory of the British who fell . As the church was dark we could only dimly read the names of Skerrett , Mercer , Carleton , MacDonald , & others whom we ...
His first exhibi- tion was the simple marble slabs put up by the officers to the memory of the British who fell . As the church was dark we could only dimly read the names of Skerrett , Mercer , Carleton , MacDonald , & others whom we ...
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and a British colony was conse- quently set up in Kabul . Under the uneasy peace , the British community calmly introduced the niceties of their homeland into Afghanistan . Life in the cantonments was a gay uninhibited round of horse ...
and a British colony was conse- quently set up in Kabul . Under the uneasy peace , the British community calmly introduced the niceties of their homeland into Afghanistan . Life in the cantonments was a gay uninhibited round of horse ...
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| Title | Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 305 Blackwood's Magazine |
| Publisher | W. Blackwood, 1969 |
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