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Valiant Ancient Britons

In The Birth of Britain, the first volume of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill writes about the conquest of Wales by King Edward I and what this development meant for the future of Britain.

In their fatal preoccupation with their possessions in France, the English kings had neglected the work of extending their rule within

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