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Edmund Burke: “They decline a general engagement,--prudently enough, if their object had been to make the war attend upon a treaty of…”

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They decline a general engagement,--prudently enough, if their object had been to make the war attend upon a treaty of good terms of subjection; but when they look further, this will not do.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques the American strategy of avoiding general engagements in the war.

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