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Old 01-24-2006, 04:20 PM   #307 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by franscar
America wanted to make its own decisions from its own parliament. Pitt, the British Prime Minister, told them to go screw themselves basically, and for a laugh started imposing taxes on things like paper. Bostonians tore shít up and threw tea about, those HOUNDS, and we started a fight we never had a chance of winning.

American independence was always going to happen, Britain never had the resources to continue running an empire of such a scale, hence why today Britain controls, well, a rock at the southern tip of Spain, and pretty much bugger all else.
sums it up nicely. If you want an ACTUAL topic of debate, branching off of british imperialism, there's the lovely subject of the palestine mandate and britains immigration policy regarding isreal leading up to and following the second world war. Now there's a subject that can actually support a debate.
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