A good example of this is the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria whose lands were taken and exploited by American and Scandinavian oil companies. ... His poetry as told by the common British soldiers show his ability maintain his status as poet laureate of the Empire while telling the stories of its victims, and at times, condemning it for the way it treated those soldiers. ... A collection of poems written in the voice of a London cockney, they display Kipling's remarkable breadth of understanding of soldiers and soldiering during the Victorian era. While reading The Young British Soldier one can pe...

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Looking closely, one sees that Kipling wrote about India all his life; almost exclusively in his youth, but many years after he returned to England for good, he was still looking back to India and reexamining the Imperial experience (Bauer xii). ... Early in the novel, Kim is captured by British soldiers. ... By birth Kim is white, an Irish boy, whose father was a soldier in an Irish regiment. ... In chapter 5, when he finally finds the 'Nine hundred first-class devils, whose God was a Red Bull on a green f...

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In total about 173,000 soldiers and 75,000 workmen were raised from Algeria to help the French in the War effort . ... Against this the Allies put soldiers from Britain, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, France, Dahomey and the Belgian Congo. ... The soldiers of Cameroon managed to put up a stiff defense, especially against the British and their colonial armies in the north. ... A good example of this is the attack on British reinforcements at Tanga in November 1914. ...

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The town did not have a very good moral reputation, however, it carried on successful trade with other English colonies. ... The Jewish also did well economically because they had a good networking. ... In 1672, when Holland and England went to war, the Dutch soldiers retook New Amsterdam and renamed it Fort Orange. ...

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I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' ... The raid was a disaster. nearly half the 6,100 British and Canadian soldiers who took part in it were killed or captured. ...

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British soldiers were sent in during the 1846 food riots. ... Potatoes were ideal in their ease of preparation and long shelf life, good source of nutrition, as well as filling, when prepared with butter and milk. ...

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We hope that future research will focus more specifically one or more of these issues and explore different historical for first invaders to provide an event fuller understanding of immigration to Britain in 1960s.Any understanding of what is new about immigration in Britain must provide some sort of framework and we believe that our framework is good starting point even if more focused research is necessary to present the whole picture. ... And at the end of this second world war in 1945, Britain was quickly recognized that the reconstruction of British economy required a large influx of imm...

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