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Edmund Burke: That they were much more broken and reduced than any other nation which had fallen under the German power I think may be…

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That they were much more broken and reduced than any other nation which had fallen under the German power I think may be inferred from two considerations.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke argues that the Britons were more severely affected than other nations under German power.

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