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Had we carried on the war on the side of France which looks towards the Channel or the Atlantic, we should have attacked our enemy on his weak and unarmed side.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Had we carried on the war on the side of France which looks towards the Channel or the Atlantic, we should have attacked…”
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Burke suggests that a strategic attack on France's vulnerable side could have yielded better results in the war.
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