... greatest reason the British attached land in Africa after 1869 was to protect their biggest money maker: India. In 1869 the French completed the Suez canal in Egypt. This was a quick route to India, but if another country had control of the canal, the possibility existed that they would cut off the British and take India for themselves. In 1875 the ... on the route to India around the cape of Good Hope. The discovery of rich gold mines in the area changed all this greatly. The ever business minded British were quick to move in on the land, ergo the Boers as well. By 1877 the Transvaal w...

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... Maharaja never consulted with them . Since Muslims make up the majority of the population, Pakistan claims that Kashmir should be a part of Pakistan. After the partition, in the absence of a quick satisfactory solution to the Kashmir problem, Pakistan sent an army to capture the territory, and India's army was invited by the Maharaja to defend the territory. In January 1948, India ... war was initiated by Pakistan who since the defeated of India by China in 1962 had come to believe that Indian military would be unable or unwilling to defend against a quick military campaign in Kashmir. ...

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... no prospect of such a settlement, he was to report what he considered should be done to hand over power by June 1948. Menon describes how Mountbatten had a remarkably careful yet quick and business-like method of working. He set about most expeditiously and zealously on the path of finding an agreed solution for a united India but in course of his talks ... ...

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... , they looked to shopkeepers to help them, which in return brought the shopkeepers and retailers into bankruptcy as well. Many merchant houses crashed, and plantations owners also struggled to find quick cash. "Thousands of southern planters suffered court judgment that took away their 'land, Negroes, horses, cows, hogs, and feather beds or old pots or pans,'" Nash said ... ...

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... direct control over all military action and the formulation of all policies. Churchill basically supervised and controlled every aspect of the war from the British prospective. This control allowed for quick decision making which was not hampered by bureaucracy....

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... direct control over all military action and the formulation of all policies. Churchill basically supervised and controlled every aspect of the war from the British prospective. This control allowed for quick decision making which was not hampered by bureaucracy....

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... the empire. And for all the company's attempts to discourage interloping, more and more free-lance adventurers kept flocking in from Europe, equipped with forged trading passes and a hunger for a quick killing. The threat that most unsettled the English, however, came from the French, who in the 1750s were engaged in a global war with Britain. In 1746, the French boldly seized ... ...

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... should always follow their own instincts. We shouldn't allow others to make decisions for us. Looking at the pros and cons of an issue is very important rather than making a quick decision that can affect someone. People can always change and decide different decisions. Half of the Burmese were telling Orwell to shoot the elephant and the other half said not ... ...

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... as a power hungry dictator, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi powers took the country by storm. He claimed Germany had been disgraced at Versailles and promised a third German Empire. He made quick allies with the fascist Italian leader, Benito Mussolini and Japanese general Hideki Tojo. Together they formed the "Axis powers" which would terrorize the world for years to come. Hitler soon ... ...

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... their opportunities were being cut short due to racism so they had to find other ways to prosper. Many began reworking claims left by White miners and their intent on quick wealth. Reworking a claim was also less expensive to acquire, and if worked on patiently would usually produce a reasonable amount of gold. Some also opened general stores and restaurants in the ... ...

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... commodity fetishism than in the United States of America. Over recent years there has even been a complete detachment from the concept of hard work being rewarded as the get rich quick' cliché has launched the desire for professional laziness with maximum benefits, seen in the late 1990's rash of .com' businesses. It seems the idea of working for your money ... ...

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... trading sectors exploited many of the workers that collected the raw materials needed for Britain's industrial machine. The people themselves, whenever they rose up in a revolt, were put down in a quick fashion. One such example of this oppression can be seen in the Opium Wars in China. The Boxer Rebellion led to a mass military effort to secure trade of opium in ... ...

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... deal with the delicate balance of public opinion, Parliament began its new overall of policy. In 1959, a newly elected Conservative government set out to bring the policy of Decolonization to a quick end. It finally came to pass that the Empire began to dissolve as one by one the colonies became independent. But beyond Economics and policies, historians have seemed to concentrate ... ...

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