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He has written a history of the British Army from the days when ( in vigorous sixteenthcentury prose ) an English archer could nail a French varlet's bum to his breeches with a single arrow ' , to the present day .
He has written a history of the British Army from the days when ( in vigorous sixteenthcentury prose ) an English archer could nail a French varlet's bum to his breeches with a single arrow ' , to the present day .
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She has never wanted anything else than to be left alone and , bearing in mind her subjection by the Tartars under Kublai Khan in the thirteenth century , and by the British in the nineteenth , it is possible to sympathise with this ...
She has never wanted anything else than to be left alone and , bearing in mind her subjection by the Tartars under Kublai Khan in the thirteenth century , and by the British in the nineteenth , it is possible to sympathise with this ...
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It is also a fact that , after the British had appropriated Lower Burma , large numbers of Burmese from the still royal territory of Upper Burma migrated south to settle in the more peaceful and prosperous conditions we had created .
It is also a fact that , after the British had appropriated Lower Burma , large numbers of Burmese from the still royal territory of Upper Burma migrated south to settle in the more peaceful and prosperous conditions we had created .
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A CHANTYMAN LOOKS BACK BY A H RASMUSSEN 254 | 97 |
ALONG THE HELL RUN BY PENELOPE GARLICK 545 | 248 |
A PACKAGETOUR OF INDIAII BY ERIC LINKLATER 55 | 341 |
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