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In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Thomas B. Macaulay
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- Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On Frederic the Great. 1842.
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