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Originally Posted by bomelia
As I recall (in our American history books)
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ah yes...to the victor the fortunate and always honest (!) task of 'writing the history books'. However, to put another perspective on it, we were taught that our concurrent war with Prussia was much more important than some minor colonial skirmish and that we should just leave the distant rebels and their barbaric country to their own devices while we attempted to spread civilization to the Huns...rofl!
...and "yes, Thatcher was SOMETHING else". I left a month or so after she took office to come here, but I think she was one of the greatest British PMs of all time!
Glyn