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Friday, August 11, 2006

 
RANDOM HISTORY REPEATS

i am not gonna quote him cause it's long and i hates typing, but in the ame speech as below, but after a typical member gets up in support of the brits using the indian 'hoard', chatham gets up and defends whats right. akin to today's arguements against torture. and how using the 'savage' indians brought britain down to the level of those savage spainards, who i guess where quite bad. (and they were to natives in their colonies in the americas (in the history of the americas re revolution)

i think we should dig chatham up, we could use him against georgie.

Comments:
This Chatham guy is William Pitt (Earl of Chatham). There were two. Father and son. William Pitt (the elder) and William Pitt (the younger). The elder was Britians war minister and the younger was British prime minister. Looks like you got the elders quotes... the elder was resonsible for Britians colonialist empirialist military interest in India and elsewhere. The elder was also famous for his defense of the american colonialists.

The Younger (William Pitt) became prime minister at the invitation of Geroge III.

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wonder why the book doesn't list his name. yes, i do think it's the elder one. it doesn't say he was prime minister.
and he was was very pro america on the stamp act, which he tried to stop. if they had listened to him, canada and us may have been one country under the crown.
MAYBE.
 
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