... could reach the hungry peasants. Several American groups contributed huge amounts of money, food, and clothing for relief purposes, but little, if any, reached the starving peasants of Ireland. In March of 1847, Quakers and religious charities began funding soup kitchens and workhouses. For many of the hunger ... ostensibly enacted to "save the farmer" excluded imported grain (except from captive Ireland) from the British Isles until the price of domestic cereals reached a profitable target price in the marketplace. Although the law led to continued growth in the export of grain from Ire...

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... could circumnavigate the continent; he would find a water route to India. When Henry died in 1460, his sailors had only reached as far as the Canary Islands in West Africa. Twenty-eight years later, Bartholomeu Dias proved that Africa could be circumnavigated when he ... reached the southern tip of the continent. This is now known as the "Cape of Good Hope." In 1499, Vasco da Gama ... quickly and quietly in most of Africa after World War II. The British granted Gold Coast independence in 1957. The indigenous government of the former colony reached into Africa's glorious past to rename t...

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... seems to infect every soldier in every war. More fatalism and the unwillingness to speak directly of the horrors of battle surface in The Widow's Party: ...For half my company's laying still Where the Widow give the party. ...We broke a King and we built a road-- A courthouse stands where the regiment goad. And the river's clean where the raw blood flowed When the ... Widow give the party. Not only does Kipling create a brutal contrast between the soldier's description (a party) and the battle that actually took place, he injects a small amount of disgust that good young men died, all f...

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... and papers covering the partition of India, some of Menon's most interesting observations have been overlooked. Menon was also exceptional in that he came from a very humble background and yet reached the heights of the Indian Government Service. V P Menon was born in Malabar, Kerala in 1894. As a schoolboy, he ran away from home to spare his family the cost of his ... Executive Council should be members of the Muslim League. Menon felt that Wavell could have called the League's bluff. His failure to do so weakened the position of the Unionist Party Ministry in the Punjab and Jinnah eme...

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... law forever. Hastings also based the Indian constitution on the English constitution. Hastings was succeeded by Cornwallis in 1784. Cornwallis initiated the Permanent Settlement, whereby an agreement in perpetuity was reached with landlords for the collection of revenue or taxes. It was under the Earl of Dalhousie that the entire sub-continent of India came under firm organized control. Dalhousie's doctrine ... company created British India which lasted for 75 years after the company was diminished. The company and its taxes on tea that it exported to America, caused the Boston Tea Part...

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... rural areas outside Cairo and Alexandria. Nevertheless, they were hungry, poor, and without much hope and the Muslim Brotherhood offered everything that needed. The prevalence of corruption within the Wafd party left the general masses sympathetic towards the Muslim Brotherhood undoubting in their decision. "In the realm of politics, the events of the war discredited the whole range of institutions-monarchy ... , parliamentary government, and the Wafd party-that had governed Egypt since 1923 and led to the political paralysis that lasted until the revolution of 1952- (Cleveland, pg. 198)...

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... Emperors from 1885 to 1917 and this did not solve their problem. There was later, in 1927, a nationalist-lead group called the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang, the Indochina Communist Party whose aim was to overthrow the French, and the rise of two religious groups who attracted nationalists support. It is no surprise then, that the Empire was slowly falling into ... super powers; the US and the Soviet Union, the severe debt of countries following the Second World War, and the Empires" ignorance of the colonies influence and power. Empires arguably reached their ending conveniently after the war...

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... the customs house. They began pelting snowballs at the guards. Suddenly, a shot rang out, followed by several others. Ultimately, eleven colonists were hit and five were dead. The Boston Tea Party was a result of the Tea Act. It was led by the Sons of Liberty, the Bostonians dumped tea into the Boston harbor in protest. As a result, the British closed down ... be entitled to was some form of regulation of trade. The Continental Congress debated various ideas for a new union with Great Britain, but ultimately concentrated on fighting British actions. They reached an agreement to stop all...

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... 127 were killed. Nearly all the junior officers were either dead or badly wounded and as a result Eden was promoted to adjutant. By the time the war ended, Eden had reached the rank of major. After the war, Eden was undecided about whether to stay in the army. However after much deliberating, Eden eventually selected a career in politics and eventually in ... the 1923 General Election he won the Warwick & Leamington constituency for the Conservative party. From this point on, his political career began to flourish. In parliament, he showed a keen in foreign and defence affairs, and thre...

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... treasury options and basically consisted of a proposal for a European Free Trade area: all the trade and none of the politics. Although the Six were far advanced, their project had not reached its final shape before Plan G emerged, and it was the British ambition to supplant their fierce and narrow concept with a softer, broader one. The Six would be at the core ... enthusiasm of these younger Ministers...But I cannot disguise from myself that it will in fact be very difficult to persuade the whole Cabinet and very hard to sell to the Party and the people. What we are all agreed is that...

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