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What made Briton great

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Don Rizzle:
Firstly and most importantly we beat the french numerous times

We maintained international naval supremacy up until more recent times which was the key too our empire.

We braught civilization free trade and liassez faire economics to to much of the world

With 900 civil servants and and army of 70,000 we were able to control 250 million people in India (which was much larger than it is today including countries like pakistan etc) name any country who can do way with beurocracy like that in modern times. we also control 1/5 of the world at our peak i mite add.

We industrialised the world bringing trains to india etc.

We made ourselves the world police to stamp out the evil slave trade using our naval might.

We shrank the world by installing telegraph lines across the worlds oceans and utilising steam ships shrinking traveling times and being able to deliver messages in hours where previously it took months.

we can still rub it spains face that we own jabrulta and they'll never get it back

we even made the first television! a mechanical one tho.

We even gracefully gave up the majority of our empire after ww2 while other thaught to keep/enlarge theirs.

What truely sets our empire above everyone elses is the industrialisation we baught to the world and the promotion of trade.

This is all off the top of my head please feel free to add i may come up with some more. Also list other countries and your reasons why you think they are great and we can discuss which is the greatest

Trauma-san:
And here I thought you were gonna talk about the Beatles.

Montana00:

--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on August 17, 2004, 06:34:28 AM ---Firstly and most importantly we beat the french numerous times

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This is a joke thread right?

Trauma-san:
No, because we all know, what makes a country a supreme war power is beating the FRENCH.  They're the standard by which all military victories are measured, lol. 

Don Seer:
its true...

the french nearly always give up unless they're so much bigger its no contest..

they'd much rather interfere


william did beat us at 1066 though...



ps...


we also gave the world the beatles  :D

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