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Edmund Burke: “This English army of traders in their march ravaged worse than a Tartarian conqueror.”

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This English army of traders in their march ravaged worse than a Tartarian conqueror.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke likens the destructive impact of English traders to that of a brutal conqueror.

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