... . By 1639, English traders were established on the east coast, too, leasing for 600 a year a harborless beach just five miles long and one mile wide, which they christened Fort St. George (later Madras). In 1661 they picked up another site when, for a paltry annual rent of 10, King Charles II handed over a barren island called Bombay, which had been part of ... impeachment charges in effect blaming him for everything that had gone wrong in India. After a spectacular, protracted trial he was acquitted. Lord Cornwallis, the patrician soldier who had surrendered to George Washington at York...

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... in a state receives the entire electoral vote of that state. This has occurred three times in the history of the United States the last of which was in 2000, when George W. Bush triumphed over Al Gore. On the other hand the members of the UK government and opposition are democratically elected by universal suffrage of citizens over the age of 18 ... ...

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