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A thousand men are marching by A glassy stare in every eye As we pass the sky grows red We are not the living, but the dead.

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On the morning of 7 May 1821 an urgent task was performed at Longwood House on St Helena. A day and a half previously, the ...

In April 1636, two aspiring lawyers, eager to make their way in the world, corresponded about the state of affairs in London.

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