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"In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or Americ..." — Margaret MacMillan

In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein adventurers who thought, by seizing the Canadian colonies, they could force Britain out of Ireland.
Margaret MacMillan
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