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HISTORY OF THE COCKFIGHT

ockfighting originated in the ancient Eastern world, spread to the Mediterranean by the 5th century BC and had already reached Britain by the time of Roman consul Julius Caesar’s 1st century BC invasion. “Fowls were there in abundance),” he wrote, “but only used for the purpose of amusement and

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